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(FFP)   Scientists unravel genome for seven different melon varieties, which they say will lead to tastier fruit, superpowers. Okay, they didn't really say superpowers, but with scientists you know it's always on the list   (freshfruitportal.com) divider line 17
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2012-07-06 08:30:21 AM
What kind of super powers would a melon have anyhow? They'd pretty much just be the equivalent of normal human powers, right? Sure, the other melons would find it impressive that this one has not one by two organs that can detect light reflecting off the objects near it, but that doesn't really give much advantage to a species that's naturally immobile.
 
2012-07-06 09:46:38 AM
It's true, my research paper got rejected from the journal because I didn't illustrate in enough detail the mutant superpowers one could get from my product.

/It's ok, they will let me resubmit it with some minor corrections.
 
2012-07-06 09:59:25 AM
You know what else leads to tastier fruit? Letting it ripen before you pick it.
 
2012-07-06 10:45:38 AM
serial_crusher: What kind of super powers would a melon have anyhow?

You'd be surprised at what the right set of melons can accomplish:
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2012-07-06 11:51:49 AM
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What tasty melons may look like.

/The more you know!
 
2012-07-06 11:53:29 AM
SmackLT: You'd be surprised at what the right set of melons can accomplish:

I came in here to say something but instead I just came.
 
2012-07-06 11:56:00 AM
3.bp.blogspot.com

Knows a bit about melon farming.
 
2012-07-06 12:14:26 PM
funpixhell.com
not a bookmark
 
2012-07-06 12:15:08 PM
minoridiot: You know what else leads to tastier fruit? Letting it ripen before you pick it.

Well that'd make eating melons for most of the country through most of the year impossible
 
2012-07-06 12:58:34 PM
Still no cure for...

i.qkme.me
 
2012-07-06 01:36:56 PM
That's my melon collie, baby.
 
2012-07-06 01:43:43 PM
Moon melons can give goblins magic powers.
 
2012-07-06 03:33:56 PM
But the important question is this: will there be enough watermelon in the future for Lamaar?

//obscure?
 
2012-07-06 04:01:37 PM
By a few vagaries of timing and happenstance, this headline might have appeared right below the one about identifying the gene affecting breast size under the Geek tab.

Everything happens for a reason, I guess

/melons
 
2012-07-06 08:02:58 PM
How much unraveling does genome need? Isn't it open source?
 
2012-07-07 01:20:20 AM
serial_crusher: What kind of super powers would a melon have anyhow?

...and I'm late to arrive with "Most Common Super Power" jokes, but at least I don't see that TV tropes link yet.
 
2012-07-08 10:48:30 AM
Did they find the gene for hitler melons?
 
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