Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just finished rereading "Flowers of Vashnoi" and realized that by "Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen" it must be eight or nine years later. How do you think the rad bug experiment progressed? It gives me so many ideas for us, here, in our world since science seems to be (ever so slowly) pivoting toward natural and/or biological solutions rather than ever more technical, toxic ones.
Lois McMaster Bujold
One of the reasons the plot of that tale veered toward the social rather than the scientific was indeed the timescale of realistic research. I can think of ways it might have succeeded, and ways it might have failed; the only certainty is that there would need to be many trials to get it right, and even then it might flounder on economic-feasibility rocks.
I would point out that a number of attempted bio-solutions in our world have not gone well; cane toads ferex. (Ask an Australian about that one.)
Biotechie people are welcome to speculate in the comments...
Ta, L.
One of the reasons the plot of that tale veered toward the social rather than the scientific was indeed the timescale of realistic research. I can think of ways it might have succeeded, and ways it might have failed; the only certainty is that there would need to be many trials to get it right, and even then it might flounder on economic-feasibility rocks.
I would point out that a number of attempted bio-solutions in our world have not gone well; cane toads ferex. (Ask an Australian about that one.)
Biotechie people are welcome to speculate in the comments...
Ta, L.
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