Chopsticks and toothpicks - RE: RP Trees

Actually, I think that most "wooden" chopsticks and toothpics are made
from bamboo, a type of grass.  Bamboo is very rapid in growth, there are
species that have been measured to grow at an inch an hour as a shoot. 
Most bamboo reaches maturity in just a few years.

Dragging this back to "Vicious Sci-Fi Plants" perhaps a nasty type of
carnivorous bamboo that is insidious.  If a unit stays more than two
turns inside a CB grove, it sends out tiny hair-like shoots covered in
neuro-toxin.  If they contact exposed flesh, the victim is paralyzed. 
The bamboo then grows a "feeder shoot" that is hollow which it injects
into the victim then releases enzymes to turn the victim into fertilizer
goo which then soaks into the ground and into the roots.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katie Lauren Lucas [mailto:katie@fysh.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:48 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: RP Trees was Re: [OT] Sea Leopard
>
> 
> All this stuff made of plastic... I was in a restaurant the 
> other day and 
> they've started putting toothpicks on the tables. I'm looking 
> at this trying to 
> remember if I'd got on a plane that morning without noticing, 
> but no, I am 
> still in the heart of England and there are toothpicks on the table. 
> Toothpicks! On the tables!! FFS. But it gets WORSE. They're 
> made of **PLASTIC**
> 
> We're taking a non-renewable, carbon-positive resource and 
> turning it into 
> disposable toothpicks!!!!
> 
> Wooden ones, although having them on the table would upset me 
> no less, at least 
> are made from a bio-degradeable carbon-neutral - chop trees, 
> make toothpicks, 
> mulch up toothpicks, plant trees in mulch.. The trick is to 
> plant trees as fast 
> as you chop 'em down. Which is the bit that everyone misses out.
> 
> But, oh my god, using PLASTIC for something like that?
> 
> 
> Brr. I tell you, between the environmentalist tree-hugging 
> nutters and the 
> world-destroying psychopath corporations there is a happy 
> medium, and we are 
> Not At It.
> 
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