Re: Killer Fungus Touted To Eradicate State Pot Crop

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 29 1999 - 12:20:19 MDT

Next message: Brian D Williams: "The Mormons and SETI"
Previous message: hal@finney.org: "Re: The Extinction Challenge"
In reply to: Matthew Gaylor: "Killer Fungus Touted To Eradicate State Pot Crop"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>
> KILLER FUNGUS TOUTED TO ERADICATE STATE POT CROP
>
> Florida's drug czar favors testing the fungus. State scientists fear it
> could run amok on crops other than marijuana.
>
> By JULIE HAUSERMAN
>
> TALLAHASSEE -- There's a killer fungus among us, and Florida's new drug czar
> Jim McDonough hopes to one day let it loose to murder the state's illegal
> marijuana crops.

If this turns out to be true, I hereby award myself the "Be Careful What
You Wish For Award" for 1996. Actually, make that the "Be Careful What
You Wish For, You Damned Moron Award", with an honorable mention for the
"Why The Hell Did You Put That On The Net Award".

-- 
           sentience@pobox.com          Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
        http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
Running on BeOS           Typing in Dvorak          Programming with Patterns
Voting for Libertarians   Heading for Singularity   There Is A Better Way

Next message: Brian D Williams: "The Mormons and SETI"
Previous message: hal@finney.org: "Re: The Extinction Challenge"
In reply to: Matthew Gaylor: "Killer Fungus Touted To Eradicate State Pot Crop"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:04:36 MST