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what could possibly go wrong with that?

Yes, what? If you think about it like a SciFy movie, it is guaranteed to result in a gigantic, walking plant, smarter than a human, which wants to destroy us all. Also ghosts some how.

If you actually think about it, than the chances of those 30 characters, being something which will help the plant survive and thrive in the wild, are tiny. Virtually non existent.

Any one currently thriving wild plant has a better chance of mutating itself in that way. Any current wild plant could become an invasive species by sticking one of its seeds the the shoe of a human getting on a plane.

People way overestimate the chances of bio-engineering to create anything truly dangerous. And people way underestimate the chances of the regular old all natural flu to kill a huge percentage of humanity in any given year.

[ChuckMcM]

[Random note, I certainly hope the password for your HN account is something like "johnsmith" :-)]

I was joking of course, I love biot's comment about overwriting the call stack and taking over the genome. And no doubt these world class geneticists wouldn't actually insert what looks like a garbage string of characters if the DNA they coded matched up some sort of virus or something. Of course "Copyright CEM rights reserved" is 30 chars too :-) which would make for a weird legal thing where you argued the Kickstarter was a 'work for hire' and you've got the copyright to prove it yadda yadda.