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    Glowing Plants: Street Lights of the Future?

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-cou...6783.html?vp=1

    “The plant that we’re working on to make glow is called Arabidopsis,” explained Antony Evans, the team’s project manager. “It’s got the shortest genomes in the plant world. And it has a reasonably slow life span, so you can do experiments quickly.”

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    I can't find an image of what it would look like, but it seems like it'd be cheaper and prettier than street lights.

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    I think theyd be awesome. Then again, this seems like something out of a scifi movie and I cant help but thing of thoes glowing plants from Avatar. Heck, bet they wont look like that though,.
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    I suspect making plants glow will back fire hilariously.

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    I don't like this. They could be nuked or something.

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    Sounds pretty cool to me.
    http://youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc

    "A still more glorious dawn awaits
    Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
    A morning filled with 400 billion suns
    The rising of the milky way"

    "The sky calls to us
    If we do not destroy ourselves
    We will one day venture to the stars" -Carl Sagan

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