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Genetic Superbees More Badass Than James Bond
San Francisco, 9:47 PM
Sun Nov 29
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11/09/08
11/09/08
The law of Unintented Consequences seems useful to mention, here. Nature has a way of balancing itself out pretty well without our meddling in the process. The last time we tried to create bees more suitable to our purposes, we ended up with Killer Bees. Have we not learned anything?
11/09/08
Bees are the one thing we know we shouldn't mess with.
11/09/08
Last time they tried to breed a strain of genetic superbees, didn't we end up with a whole bunch of killer swarms in Texas?
11/09/08
No? Not what you were referencing?