Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Plants that can alert to the presence of land mines

Yes, this post I found in my travels. CORE77 has the original but Boing Boing posted a link to it, as did Virginia Postrel.

After tossing the idea around a bit, I wondered okay, how would they actually plant it? The planting act on the field could be dangerous. Then I read the comments on the original posting and was relieved to find that the others who came before me had similar questions so I had no further comment.

"More than 100 million land mines kill or injure 26,000 people in 45 countries each year. Today's most popular detection method is poking around with a stick."

What do you think?

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