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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/glowing-plants-china-avatar/
ZME ScienceChinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace StreetlightsWith plants that look right out of Avatar, cities might soon be lit by glowing foliage instead of streetlamps.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Not nearly enough light.
Replying to @Nomad@infosec.pub
yeah this is definitely a case of “let’s do this because it’s fun and try to think of a legitimate use for it later”.
also you can get glowing petunias now from light.bio.
Light BioGlowing Plants by Light BioFirefly Petunia is the world's first bioluminescent plant. Its soft, moonlight, natural glow is emitted from within the plant’s own living energy. Light Bio’s bioluminescent petunias are more than a plants, they are a biological breakthrough. This living light was selected as one of TIME’s Best Inventions.Replying to @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
Authenticity Notice: Light Bio does not sell or authorize the sale of seeds. Our bioluminescent technology is available exclusively in live plant form.
seems predatory
Replying to @Turret3857@infosec.pub
They developed the product and deserve to make some money from it.
Also they are purely decorative plants, it’s not like people need these things for food or any other reason. Hard to call that “predatory”.
Replying to @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
I dunno, a few more steps down that slippery slope and then you’ve got Triffids. That’s pretty predatory.
Replying to @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
They deserve to make some money from it. Mostly the original researchers that is. They had their wages to do their fucking job researching shit. Maybe we should have a kind of UN bonus system to reward outstanding research.
These companies take the research and all that it’s build on and use it for free to develop it into a product. Do a good job growing and selling them then, make money. But laws protecting them to create an artificial monopoly is unethical.
Replying to @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
Actually nature developed most of the product and as a card carrying member of nature, I expect to see my royalties check in the mail soon.