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| Reply To: | A man of honor pays his debts with his own money. --DeGaulle |
| Date: | Fri, 21 May 2004 07:32:49 -0500 |
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Now THAT is an IDEA! Even if it didn't actually reinforce the timber,
if it somehow allowed the affected area to dry rapidly...of course
these termites would not survive...not a bad thing...they would have to
be created in the lab...why would we want to give the world ANOTHER
form of termite? Unless they reproduced and competed voroaciously
before they killed themselves by dehydration.....hmmmmmmm. Okay, I
don't know enough about bioengineering, but it looks interesting.
-jc
On May 20, 2004, at 10:04 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 5/20/2004 10:48:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> It’s not the eating that bothers me, so much as the pooping and
> irrigating.
> I suppose if we could teach (or bioengineer!) them to shit
> concrete--or epoxy-- it'd be OK with you? Think of the money we could
> make, using termites to reinforce timber! But what would Tom Delay
> say about this sort of genetic engineering? This is almost as good as
> mine-hunting rats.
>
> Sign me,
> Helena Handbasket
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