Bees fed Cocaine, what the ....

[mick]

http://www.theage.com.au/national/bees-get-an-added-buzz-in-cocainefuelled-dance-20081223-74cb.html

All in the name of science of course!

[Big John]

I just read about this on the BUZZ, interesting article.

[BjornBee]

95% of research is a waste. Many of these type experiments and researched conducted tests are nothing more than grant monies being wasted. If you have a oddball idea, and can write your name on a piece of paper, and are connected to a university or an agriculture department, than grant money is what continues your job and existence. This type thing just keeps people employed by living off tax money. Sure, there will be someone to say something good will come out of this. But many times, the amount of money to perform year long tests on such items, runs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But I guess it's better than paying for art in the area of someone putting a flag in a bucket of urine and feces and then calling it "art", while the taxpayers are footing the bill.

[Keith13]

I can almost see the little disco balls in side the club 54 hive
I think there is a bee movie 2 in here somewhere

Keith

[Irwin]

Bad bees Bad bees what you going to do when they come for you I can see a new TV series. Bees robing bank's of honey and running from the bee police. I think the study is a waste of money.

[Keith13]

Irwin I never thought of it that way
Pretty soon we will have drive or fly by shootings, crack hives, armed honey robbing, Russian and Italian crime families moving in to run the whole thing, the possibilities are endless

Keith

[tlynn]

All in the name of science of course!

Well, it's really mostly in the name of grant money.  A university professor's career progresses to the extent that he or she can secure grant money for projects.  A lot of science is the by-product of career building and quest for lab equipment/expansion, not necessarily the pure desire for knowledge.  Been there.

[BeeHopper]

What if a Honey Bee is sky high on cocaine escapes the Lab ( remember the AHB ) decides she were to sting me, being that her venom is laced with it, would I feel the effects also 

[JP]

The researches gave some to the bees and did the rest, who knows for sure.

I have a good friend whose brother died the very first time he used cocaine, on his 18th birthday.

HUGS NOT DRUGS PEOPLE!


...JP

[poka-bee]

Hmmm...grant $$ for drugging bees..I better check into that..would love to expand & improve my little farmstead here..more bees, more cows, larger chix house,honey house, milking parlor...new fencing & gates..power & water to the barn... hire a nice young strong dumb "Ramone" to watch hauling rocks, dirt & digging fence holes..heh heh ooohhhh, & a small tractor to move poo & dirt around!   J

[MrILoveTheAnts]

Now... what did the honey taste like?

[Brian D. Bray]

Now... what did the honey taste like?

Highline Honey, honey with a kick, collected by bees pollinating cocaine plants.  Or howabout Opium Honey, direct from Opium poppy fields.