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And it lowers the overburgeoning population in African nations, what heroes!

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If only they could make condoms out of tobacco, then the AIDS epidemic would be solved too!

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That's umm... Cool. And umm... Y'know... What about pics?

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Wow... That means if i put it on my lap and it glows red, i'm pretty screwed?

Not as wierd as last year when they managed to clone rabbits... Except they glowed in the dark.

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They've been making glowing fish for awhile now.
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I've even made glowing E. coli in my AP biology class.

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Just had a funny thought, what if someone misunderstood this thinking all it would take to detect land mines was to walk through them with a lit cigarette? Kaboom!!!

Seriously though, it would have to be a God awful plant like tobacco that's found to be useful for this. Just when you think the world is getting smart to the ills of the plant something like this comes along.

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It's not the plants fault, and it's not the plant killing people. It's the people processing and draining it.

The plant itself isn't dangerous, it's those darn people draining it. Then again, they say "Guns don't kill people". But people kill guns then?

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It takes 10 weeks for the leaves to turn red, plus growing time... you could probably clear the field in that time without a paddock of plants in your way.

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If you'll recall, the article points out mechanical clearing doesn't always get them all. That's why the plants are developed. Also, let me repeat, tobacco is a cash crop, potentially making money for impoverished nations while also helping to clear their land of mines. I might not like tobacco, but it can make money.

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Encouragement of cash crops puts farmers at greater risk of international price changes, and contributes to the global food shortage ;)

This is much less effective than mechanical clearing because it only works for leaking mines.