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    Default Genetic weapon developed against honeybee-killer

    Very cool... I hope they develop this soon.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/9306572.stm

    Genetic weapon developed against honeybee-killer

    By Victoria Gill
    Science and nature reporter, BBC News

    Researchers have developed a genetic technique which could revitalise the fight against the honeybee's worst enemy - the Varroa mite.

    More at link...
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    While mine is entirely anecdotal, the population of honey bees has risen in my area.
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    i frickin hate it when scientists think they can jack with nature, like they've never seen jurassic park.

    The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.

    Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterThanYou View Post
    i frickin hate it when scientists think they can jack with nature, like they've never seen jurassic park.
    Science itself is basically Pandoras box. Our ability to exploit it is already unlocked, and there is no turning back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterThanYou View Post
    i frickin hate it when scientists think they can jack with nature
    "Jacking with nature" is all science does, and all it has ever done. We are part of nature, and when we do anything, we establish a new nature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Very cool... I hope they develop this soon.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/9306572.stm

    Genetic weapon developed against honeybee-killer

    By Victoria Gill
    Science and nature reporter, BBC News

    Researchers have developed a genetic technique which could revitalise the fight against the honeybee's worst enemy - the Varroa mite.

    More at link...
    Several years ago I read some articles about the plight of honey bees but their killer was still a mystery at the time. So the varroa mite is the culprit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by King of Proles View Post
    While mine is entirely anecdotal, the population of honey bees has risen in my area.
    It just goes to show you. even Varroa mites don't want to live in michigan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterThanYou View Post
    i frickin hate it when scientists think they can jack with nature, like they've never seen jurassic park.
    Uhhh...dude...by definition that's all scientist ever do is "jack with nature".
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    Quote Originally Posted by King of the Amphetamines View Post
    "Jacking with nature" is all science does, and all it has ever done. We are part of nature, and when we do anything, we establish a new nature.
    Exactly! Great answer dude.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterThanYou View Post
    i frickin hate it when scientists think they can jack with nature, like they've never seen jurassic park.
    You do know that the movie wasn't a documentary, right?
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