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Lost: Kintaro Edition, Episode One

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worker201:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---The skin of the potato is still poisonous to some degree ... potatoes are part of the deadly nightshade family. They defend themselves against ravaging bugs by producing a toxic chemical called solanine.
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After writing a grueling 25-page paper on plant toxins in college, it seemed clear to me that plant toxins are simply normal by-products of the particular plant's metabolism.  While it may appear that the plant produces poison to protect itself, it just produces it naturally, and the overall effect is protection.  For example, let's assume that the nightshade family was not always poisonous to certain bugs.  But then one plant was mutated and began to produce sickness in the bugs.  This plant would have survived, and the others would have died off.  So the plants don't actually defend themselves - that implies intelligence and proactivity, which plants don't have a lot of.  They just get lucky from time to time.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Ahhh ... we are learning so much today, isn't it fun ? :D

The luckyness of plants = evolution by natural selection

Kintaro:
Toxic dont mean high niggers

Annorax:



--- Quote from: kintaro ---Toxic dont mean high niggers
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This is your brain on drugs...

Jack2000:
Apple leaves rock!
i dunno if they get you high but you can mix them with weed
to ... um ... like... make it more lite :)




(how do you say the word ... when you mix two things to make it weaker ??)

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