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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.
...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.
We put it right next to the stereo speakers, and it harvested a lot of heavy metal too.
Bureaucracy loves company.
Ooohhh, so, that's how they make "gold leaf"...
Sounds efficient to me.
Oh well, what the hell...