A romantic walk down a tree-lit lane...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Science to give us glowing trees, roses, and poison ivy...

... well you want to see that stuff if you pop into the woods for a little romantic tree-Lit sex.

A glowing plant that could provide a sustainable light source has caught the imagination of backers on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.

With a month still to go, the project has raised $243,000 (£157,000). Its initial goal was $65,000.

Backers are promised seeds for glowing plants, although delivery will not be until next May at the earliest.

The "biohacking" team behind the project said that in future trees could act as street lights.

The researchers are keen that their mix of DIY synthetic biology and sustainable lighting remains open-source.

"Inspired by fireflies... our team of Stanford-trained PhDs are using off-the-shelf methods to create real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself bio lab in California," said project leader Antony Evans.

"All of the output from this project will be released open-source, the DNA constructs, the plants etc," it said on its website.

The part I like best is the private funding; people willing to make a bet on their own dime...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22433866

 

[run_silent]

That would be cool.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, but will herbivores begin to glow in the dark too?




At least, their bellies. Maybe their little lips and tongues.

Little glowing green poops on the lawn...

 

[Byron In Exile]

Why not just trap fireflies in paper lanterns?

 

[rosco rathbone]

We'll be too tired from slaving in the unobtanium mines to have any interest in tree lit sex.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Why not just trap fireflies in paper lanterns?

Because they are only active for the shortest nights...

We need some evergreen Christmas magic if we're going to go horizontal bop in the snow.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We'll be too tired from slaving in the unobtanium mines to have any interest in tree lit sex.

Speak for yourself honkey cat...


I already got back into the woods. You'd better get back!

 

[CandiCame]

Yes, but for completely unrelated reasons.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8423672

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Squirrels will need camouflage too when the trees start to glow...