Not to worry. It's covered.
Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pentagon research project called "Insect Allies." Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project involves using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect insects with modified viruses that could help make America's crops more resilient. If a cornfield were hit by an unexpected drought or suddenly exposed to a pathogen, for example, Insect Allies might deploy an army of aphids carrying a genetically modified virus to slow the corn plant's growth rate.
According to the DARPA website, these "targeted therapies" could take effect in a single growing season, potentially protecting the American crop system from food security threats like disease, flooding, frost and even "threats introduced by state or non-state actors.
… Insect Allies, is less concerned. "Anytime you're developing a new and revolutionary technology, there is that potential for [both offensive and defensive] capability," Bextine told The Washington Post. "But that is not what we are doing. We are delivering positive traits to plants… We want to make sure we ensure food security, because food security is national security in our eyes."
Insect Allies is still in the early stages of development, and at least four U.S. colleges (Boyce Thompson Institute, Penn State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin)have received funding to carry out research. Bextine told The Washington Post that the project recently achieved its first milestone — testing whether an aphid could infect a stalk of corn with a designer virus that caused fluorescence. According to the Washington Post, "the corn glowed."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/vogonpoetry/lettergen.shtml
I shall leave this evil engine here.
You have identified his lineage correctly..
He definitely proved it accurate, many times.
On a continuing basis..
Yes.
But three'll be a nice intergalactic freeway in its place when they're done..
Yes. I picked up one of his books at a Barnes and Noble in 2008. Coincidentally, or perhaps not so coincidentally (which I believe it was) I just happened to find the page where he said (paraphrased because it’s been too long):
“I grew up in a household that rejected the notion of sending 3/4 of the world’s population to Hell”.
If I had any doubts, and I pretty much didn’t at that point, I knew this guy knew nothing about the wide path and the fact that the overwhelming majority of the world rejects that Jesus Christ is Lord and the Messiah.
Therefore, the nonsense that he was “a Christian” was never going to be sold to me ever again. Further, it got me booted from a collection of “prophecy watchers” who couldn’t even discern what he was; for I was not respectful enough to him. They can have him. I hope they enjoy him. You learn quite a bit about people’s true nature when the chips are down.
I remember when that panel first appeared in the papers.
It’s still true and funny today.
Francis Chan (paraphrased):
I know about the wide road and the narrow road. But suddenly my congregation was trying to tell me there’s a middle road.
I couldn’t believe the idiocy surrounding that guy.
He may not be the THE but he sure did a terrific impersonation.
I’m trying to remember my paraphrase a little better. I THINK it’s more like this but it’s been way too long since I read it.
“I grew up in a household that rejected the notion of sending 3/4 of the world’s population to Hell - simply for being the wrong religion”.
Wow and ay yi yi!
Appreciate the doggie video!
You’re welcome. I thought they were adorable.
It doesn’t work anymore.
The BBC no longer supports the page and it is archived.
It’s that British sense of humor.. ;-)
Yes, so alien.
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