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Great quote
Posted Jun 21, 2013
This was in a response to a Facebook post I did. If it had been on here, I would be nominating it right now for Quote of the Day.
You see, I heard a debate earlier today on Genetic Modification. One of the pro-GM people said that ordinary crops that are known to be dangerous are used all the time, as opposed to GM crops we know are pretty definitely not dangerous. Asked for an example, she pointed out that raw potatoes are toxic! This was news to me, but seemed like the kind of thing everyone else might know but me, so I stuck it on FB.
In the subsequent discussion, a guy I know said that GM crop design was arguably considerably safer than 'natural' hybridisation, because you only changed one thing at a time.
Now here's the zinger. He concluded with:
"In fact, a fair amount of commercial crop species were generated from mutation breeding: basically just bombarding the seeds with radiation and seeing if anything that turned out to be delicious happened."
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Return
Posted Feb 14, 2007
I got a new PC two days ago, so I can finally return to regular perusal of h2g2. Hurrah!
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An anagram
Posted Jul 6, 2004
Orlando Bloom ran = Marlon Brando loo
Interesting? Doubtful. Coincidence? Almost definitely.
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I'm off. Holiday LOA
Posted Jun 13, 2003
Tomorrow my mum is coming to pick me (and my trunkloads of stuff) up from university and take me home for the summer. Unfortunately, this means that I won't be using h2g2 much, as we have 6 people in the house and only one computer with internet access. I'll try to report in every now and then, but I'm not making any promises.
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Latest reply: Jun 13, 2003
The Vines Rock!
Posted Oct 29, 2002
I went to see The Vines at the Academy last night, and they Rock!
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Latest reply: Oct 29, 2002
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