\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2010, the RIKEN institute in Japan created mutant cherry blossom trees by firing ion beams at them in a particle accelerator. The mutated trees now bloom four times a year and produce more flowers.\n\n
a wise use of science powers
\nok so i\u2019m not saying this is the most japanese thing ever, but I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not
\n\u201cwe have a ray gun that creates mutants\u201d anime level 8/10
\n\u201cwe used it to make super cherry blossoms\u201d japan level 10/10
\n\u201cso are they like firebreathing carnivorous flowers or\u201d \u201cno they just make more flowers, more often\u201d aesthetic level 11/10
\n\u201cwell done, this is exactly what we hoped would happen when we paid a zillion dollars to build a particle accelerator\u201d \u2014the project backers
\nParticle physics is fucking magic\nSome wizards took a magic box into the woods and fucked up some trees. I love this shit
\n\u201cok so should we mutate like a super army or-\u201d \u201cno. this sakura tree.\u201d \u201cbut why\u201d \u201chanami four times a year instead of once. imagine\u201d
\nmore chances for senpai to notice you
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Friendly reminder that the US increased a lot of crops’ productivity in the postwar era through exposure to radiation from nuclear reactors, that’s where the 1950s image of giant glowing vegetables and even The Simpsons’ 1999 “tomacco” come from.
Friendly reminder this didn’t actually infuse them with strange energy or any mad science-type stuff, it just raised the mutation rate of seeds that were then planted in test plots and observed and crossbred back into production strains in the same Mendelian way as always
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