[H]ardNews 8th Edition

Flower Power:

Mr. Burns sends word that the next time someone tells you to “take time to smell the roses” you might want to think twice about that. Check this out, Danish researchers have made a flower that changes color to detect landmines and explosives. Holy cow that is amazingly cool.

A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically modified flower that could help detect land mines and it hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few years. "We are really excited about this, even though it's early days. It has considerable potential," Simon Oestergaard, chief executive of developing company Aresa Biodetection, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

I am still wondering, for this to work, who gets the job of walking around in a mine field planting flowers? You could start out planting flowers and wind up pushing up daisies instead. Heh...now that is funny.