They have no myrrh to offer?

Yeah. So says Ecologists and scientists and other liberal elites.


Like God's gonna let that happen.

Entirely the opposite of what the article said, submittard. It's again habitat destruction and that farking asian beetle.

What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him!

Don't worry, the Free Market will make as much as we want automagically.

There's myrrh to the story than subby would lead you to believe.

deadsanta: Entirely the opposite of what the article said, submittard. It's again habitat destruction and that farking asian beetle.

Surely you don't expect submitters to read the entirety of the articles, and actually comprehend them, do you? Our whole system could collapse! Mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together!

The Wiseman's?

"Frankincense may soon be extinct because some wise guys are over-harvesting it "

Jesus Christ!

Apparently it's quite good for the skin. Magi soaked in it.

HailRobonia: What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him!

He is the son of God. King of the Jews!

If only there were a way to make more of these trees. It really is a shame that plant life is such a non renewable resource.

Just like the pine tree, this plant that can be harvested for an in demand product is just doomed to slowly vanish as demand outstrips the naturally occuring groves.

It makes me long for tequila. But that hasn't existed for some time since it was produced by harvesting a slow growing plant that only grows in a specific arid climate.

R.I.P FRANKENBERRY

/am I doing it right?

anuran: Don't worry, the Free Market will make as much as we want automagically.

If you can grow it, and people will pay money for it, the free market will provide. Heck it sometimes provides even when you DONT want it to(drug war)

I feel like there should be a better, more concerted effort to preserve DNA samples so these going-extinct things can be brought back. Is this happening and I am just failing to notice it?

HailRobonia: What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him!

What's he do? Nibble your bum?

TheWizard: anuran: Don't worry, the Free Market will make as much as we want automagically.

If you can grow it, and people will pay money for it, the free market will provide. Heck it sometimes provides even when you DONT want it to(drug war)

It's Magic!

DeadBaby: I feel like there should be a better, more concerted effort to preserve DNA samples so these going-extinct things can be brought back. Is this happening and I am just failing to notice it?

There are seed banks and gene banks. They're under-funded, under-staffed and under constant attack from right wingers. They also don't have the resources to grow out seeds every few years to maintain viability and can't possibly keep enough variety to come anywhere near the diversity needed to survive if something goes wrong.

Other than that, everything's peachy.

RIP PHIL HARTMAN

late

/why u late?

Crap, I knew it would not be long before the farklicense expired.

Just raise the price of frankincense to be equal to gold or myrrh (after all, why should one of the Magi be a cheapskate?) and people will see an incentive to preserve the trees and plant new ones.

funk_soul_bubby: www.marywshelley.com

RIP PHIL HARTMAN

RIP CHARLIE MURPHY

I couldn't find a pic from the "Black Monsters" skit. It was hiliarious. Nubian, you Frankenstein!

Well that's just Bongers.

SALVE THE TREES!!

/im doing it wrong
//im so incensitive

Make some more. And hurry, dammit.

Flakeloaf: Apparently it's quite good for the skin. Magi soaked in it.

No, that was Palmolive. And she spelled her name "Madge".

FTA: ...the number of Boswellia trees could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years...

.... "Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated...

Worst use of 'decimated,' EVAH! It's the exact freakin' opposite.

/by a scientist, nonetheless!

FTGodWin: FTA: ...the number of Boswellia trees could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years...

.... "Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated...

Worst use of 'decimated,' EVAH! It's the exact freakin' opposite.

/by a scientist, nonetheless!

You cut off the quote before they could finish!

"Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated... nine times."

FTGodWin: Worst use of 'decimated,' EVAH! It's the exact freakin' opposite.

No, the exact opposite of decimated would be a 10% increase.

Double-oh Steven: "Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated... nine times."

You would have to decimate something about 21 times to decrease it by 90%.

That word has evolved an implication much worse than its definition. And only idiots like us even notice.

JNowe: Flakeloaf: Apparently it's quite good for the skin. Magi soaked in it.

No, that was Palmolive. And she spelled her name "Madge".

I was getting worried about that reference going unnoticed. I should know by now that is a literal impossibility on Fark.

On the island of Socotra off Yemen (one of the the only places besides Ethiopia and Oman that naturally have the Frankincense tree) the number of frankincense trees are declining but not because of overharvesting. The goat the Socotris imported from the mainland run rampant over the island and are eating all the young trees and shoots. Soon they won't have any there either.

/I'm dork with way too many miles on her backpack...
//hates goats and their smelly meat

TheWizard: anuran: Don't worry, the Free Market will make as much as we want automagically.

If you can grow it, and people will pay money for it, the free market will provide. Heck it sometimes provides even when you DONT want it to(drug war)

Which is why Gros Michel bananas are still available at your local supermarket, right?

Looks like this stuff has some medical effects^, but the same thing was told about witchcraft.

/so the church burns them both
//sanctimonious pedos

Double-oh Steven: FTGodWin: FTA: ...the number of Boswellia trees could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years...

.... "Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated...

Worst use of 'decimated,' EVAH! It's the exact freakin' opposite.

/by a scientist, nonetheless!

You cut off the quote before they could finish!

"Our models show that within 50 years, populations of Boswellia will be decimated... nine times."

Actually, I think that would be wrong too.

I'm no mathematician, but my math shows that decimating something repeatedly NINE TIMES would reduce it overall by 61.2579511%

H31N0US: FTGodWin: Worst use of 'decimated,' EVAH! It's the exact freakin' opposite.

No, the exact opposite of decimated would be a 10% increase.

I knew I'd get in trouble for using opposite in this context.

/I should've said ass-backwards

moops: funk_soul_bubby: www.marywshelley.com

RIP PHIL HARTMAN

RIP CHARLIE MURPHY

I couldn't find a pic from the "Black Monsters" skit. It was hiliarious. Nubian, you Frankenstein!