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Money That Grows On Trees
parvez1 submits this piece about a process that uses plants to soak up and accumulate contaminants - and gold - from near gold-mining sites. Then the plants are harvested for their metal content. The plants aren't bio-engineered - he's taking advantage of the natural tendency for certain plants to accumulate heavy metals.
talk about a cash crop!!!
OMFGLOL i kill myself.
I like this guy, he's able to piss off tree-huggers and anti-mining people at the same time.
small pigs seen flying over frozen lake of fire... Here is Tom with the weather...
...then where does paper come from?
Anybody who has ever played Animal Crossing knows that if you run around shaking enough trees eventually a bag of money will fall out.
Just be careful, some of them have bee hives.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
If only they'd get working on "chicks for free."
my Breast-Tree is not so far-fetched after all.
"Sir, please no squeazing the fruit!"
Table-ized A.I.
banana trees doing the same thing...
Mmmmh.. Bananas... The yellow gold!
I remember something similar was also done in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They used leaves as money; the only problem was the galloping inflation that was caused by everybody suddenly becoming so rich...
I don't need a signature.
...Panama Gold.
...we'll be mining inner-city and third-world children for lead and mercury.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
We put it right next to the stereo speakers, and it harvested a lot of heavy metal too.
Bureaucracy loves company.
Money does grow on trees?
My Dad is going to get such a punching...
Ooohhh, so, that's how they make "gold leaf"...
...the last remaining superpower armed to the teeth with nukes. any questions? i didn't think so.
Sounds efficient to me.
Oh well, what the hell...
Central America isn't a continent you moron, it's a region. Just like the "Middle East" isn't a continent, it's part of Asia (hence it's other name, Southwest Asia).
The Americas are divided into two continents, North and South America.
Simply put, Americans can call themselves Americans for a couple of reasons:
#1 because they choose to.
#2 because no one else chooses to.
So EVERYONE knows what people are talking about when someone mentions an American. Only pedantic assholes who probably bitch about the floral pattern of their friend's toilet paper really give a shit about Americans being called Americans and "appropriating" "3 [sic]" contintents.
Now if we could only feed all those starving children in Africa...
Well, if they use the resulting crops to feed the starving children in Africa, the problem should pretty much go away...
(Note - this post for entertainment purposes only. I do not support feeding poisonous foodstuffs to starving African children. However, I do see this as a good way of getting rid of some of those damn holier-than-thou vegetarians)