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--- secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-09 18:16] – cocky
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-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665616/" title="Picture 20 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5603665616_800acb1622.jpg" width="50" height="125" alt="Picture 20"></a></html>---Luminescence in Liquids and Solids and Their Practical Application published by Marcel Vogel. Vogel developed
+<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665616/" title="Picture 20 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5603665616_800acb1622.jpg" width="50" height="125" alt="Picture 20"></a></html>---"Luminescence in Liquids and Solids and Their Practical Application" by Marcel Vogel. He developed
 a variety of new products: the red color seen on television screens;
 fluorescent crayons; tags for insecticides; a "black light" inspection kit
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 that Was perfectly straight, without oscillations.
-"How about sex?" To their surprise, the plant came to life, the pen recorder
+---"How about sex?" To their surprise, the plant came to life, the pen recorder
 oscillating wildly on the chart. This led to speculation that talking of sex
 could stir up in the atmosphere some sort of sexual energy such as the
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 ---Since glass and gelatin are known to block various ultraviolet
-frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum, Gurwitsch concluded that
+frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum.
-the rays emitted by the cells of an onion root tip must be as short as ~
+them. Pg 54
-shorter than ultraviolet. Because they apparently increased cell division.
-or "mitosis," he called them "mitogenetic rays." Gurwitsch's findings had created a furor in the scientific world. laboratories hastened to check them. Since the wavelengths claimed for
+---1969. Four main questions, said Lawrence, were starting to attract serious
-the new rays were more powerful than the ultra violet frequencies which reach the earth from the sun, many biologists could not believe that living processes were capable of generating.
+attention: **Could plants be integrated with electronic readouts to form
-them. Pg 54-55
+major data sensors and transducers? Could they be trained to respond
+to the presence of selected objects and images? Were their alleged
+supersensory perceptions verifiable? Of the 350,000 plant species known
+to science, which were the most promising from the electronic point of
+view**?  Pg 56
+"There are certain qualities here," he wrote,
+"which do not enter into normal experimental situations. According to
+those experimenting in this area, it is necessary to have a 'green thumb'
+and, most important, a genuine love for plants."  Pg 57