survival of the worms

http://www.physorg.com/news9520.html
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Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
wrote:
>

Reading about radiodurans is always good for a laugh.
>
> "D. radiodurans was discovered in the 1950s. Scientists
> experimenting with radiation to kill bacteria and preserve food
for
> long periods found that something kept growing back after
treatment."
>
>
> "Already, Daly and his colleagues have devised D. radiodurans
variants
> that can clean up mercury, a deadly heavy metal, and toluene, a
> dangerous solvent. This work was sponsored by the U.S. Department
of
> Energy."
>
> http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14dec99_1.htm
>
> Stephen Szpak
>

> http://www.physorg.com/news9520.html
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> Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
>

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
wrote:
>
> http://www.physorg.com/news9520.html
> --

I read Charles Darwin played piano to some worms testing whether they
were deaf. Didn't say by what mechanism they survived.

Clark

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "threesixesinarow"
<music.conx@n...> wrote:\

Off topic, but I saw something on television several
weeks ago on MythBusters. They played music to plants.
The plants that recieved the hard rock music did
*significantly* better than the control group.

Stephen

>
> --- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.physorg.com/news9520.html
> > --
>
> I read Charles Darwin played piano to some worms testing whether
they
> were deaf. Didn't say by what mechanism they survived.
>
> Clark
>

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "stephenszpak"
<stephen_szpak@h...> wrote:
>
> My thought, is that I'd like to have scientific confirmation
of all this. I wonder if the plants that grew best were
responding to low frequency vibrations. Plants can't hear
as far as I know. Maybe they can "feel" sort of. Maybe the
vibrations that we feel (not hear) in some music are what
caused the heavy metal plants to do so well.

Audio fertilizer? (Maybe some of my music.)

Talking to plants
Build team testing how talking to plants (positive/negative) affects
growth of plants. Also testing different types of music.

Seven greenhouses on Jamie's roof

silence
heavy metal
classical
2 sweet talk
2 abused
27 days: sweet-talking plants doing a bit better than the verbally
abused plants.

2 months: all the plants are dying. Battery for timer feeding the
water system died.

To recover the experiment, decided to wash plants and weigh plant
mass.

Metal house the best performer by far, with classical in second.
Talking nice/nasty made no difference. Kari's nice house did better,
but Scottie's was the opposite. Silent house was the worst performer.

Plausible (not confirmed, given that the experiment wasn't really
scientifically valid)

http://kwc.org/blog/archives/2004/2004-11-
21.mythbusters_exploding_house.html

Stephen Szpak