[extropy-chat] Superweed forms

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Wed Jul 27 04:05:49 UTC 2005


--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> We could make a ton of money off of this!  Breed round-up
> resistant weeds, sell short a bunch of shares of Monsanto
> and the company that is GMing the crops, sow your pet weeds 
> downwind of the GM test plot, stocks plummet, cover your 
> short sales, take your profit, quietly buy up a ton of the 
> reduced cost stock, then show the world how the weeds got there.  
> 
> Rinse and repeat.

We talk about this - but people actually do try this kind of thing for
a living.  No joke.



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