Playing God (Glitches Are Cool and Edelweiss)
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				Title: <strong>Playing God (Glitches Are Cool and Edelweiss)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Edelweiss</strong> on <strong>31-01-2013, 06:37:40</strong>
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				Laura Maxwell was, to plainly to put it, a genius. She graduated achieved her undergraduate degree at the age of sixteen and by the time she was twenty-six, she had already completed a degree in genetics, geology and written a book on terraforming. Her list of achievements were long and impressive to put on paper. Her passion for preserving the earth was borderline obsessive. She lived in a perpetual state of eco-friendliness. Recycling was a serious issue for her on garbage day. Her car ran on electricity and she had solar panels installed on the roof of her house. This trait, of course, followed her into work.&nbsp; Only the best technology was allowed in her labs. The research carried out were, as you guessed, to help the planet's deteriorating state. <br><br>Because of the growing population and disregard for the environment in the early 2000's, nearly half of earth's land mass has either been lost to rising sea levels or to the waste that human kind has created. Smog and carbon dioxide was rich in the air. It was hard to go outside without being covered in a slight layer of soot. Plants were scarce for a while and were only making a come back recently with the aid of science. Many new stains of super plants were created. Sturdier, more resilient to the absence of sun and harsher conditions. They also produced more oxygen then an average plant. Laura, of course, was one of the scientists who responsible for these new strain of plants.<br><br>Still, there were masses of land where the soil is too devoid of nutrients to be used for planting and other places such as, the moon, where terraforming is a definite possibility with this new technology. That was the new goal. To create a new species of plant that is capable of bring back life to dead land, and hopefully, be able to sustain itself in outer space.&nbsp; Two years of Laura's life was spent on this project. Four months into the third year, she was incredibly close to completing her life's greatest work.<br><br>Half of the lights in the sterile, white lab were turned off. To the far side of the wall, rows of plants sat underneath sunlamps, growing healthy and green. Laura stood at one of the lab table's. Her hair was pulled back in practicality. She was bent over a microscope, glasses placed on the table beside it as she looked through the lens. The plant cells were taking well to the animals cells she had spliced in six weeks ago. The whole affair was promising, though she still lacked viable results. The potted plants that were on the table grew at an incredibly slow rate. She knew she was close to a break through but there was something that was missing as the plants would eventually wither and die without any explanation. She knew that in three months, the plants in front of her would eventually wilt.<br><br>Laura sat back in her stool and sighed softly. She stared at the plants, head turning over every possibility and every solution she could think of as she idly rubbed a leaf gently between her thumb and forefinger. A headache was building at the sides of her forehead. It became more and more unbearable. The ticking of her watch only irritated her, reminding her of the late hour. She should go home and sleep. It was a work day tomorrow. It wouldn't be good for the moral of the lab to not show because she had stayed up late.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Playing God (Glitches Are Cool and Edelweiss)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Glitches are cool</strong> on <strong>31-01-2013, 12:31:51</strong>
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				One small plant was not like the others in the line, the plant that she had her hand on. Such a simple stimulation, one that would never cause a true reaction in plants, brought forward a spark of life into this little thing. It was a spindly, bright green stem that stuck up in the air and rounded off with a large, orange sphere at the top, standing rigid and straight with a huge bundle of leaves around the stem. It normally didn’t move, not even in response to the light, but the strange sphere was unique to the plant. It was small, not much larger than an inch wide, and was usually wrapped up tightly in an armor-like covering of thick petals. As the plant was touched, the thick petals moved out of the way, revealing the sphere, though its creator seemed to be distracted with another matter on her mind. Sentience was an odd thing, very strange for a plant to have, and this new creature didn’t exactly have it…<br><br>The plant knew what it was; if given a mirror, it would be able to identify itself. It had highly developed senses of touch and smell. Somewhere deep in its genetic code, it knew that it could flourish many times larger if it had the right nutrients. It was a little hungry—three months and it would wither, and hopefully it could find food in those three months. The person touching it might be a good source, it smelled right. The leaf curled lightly around the finger that was rubbing it, tiny vines reaching up and wrapping themselves lightly around the hand. The person was in pain, it could sense. Something inside of it knew that its key to survival was to take care of the being in front of it. The tiny vines pulled back, and the plant’s stiff stem wiggled and fattened a bit, passing its mass to make a much larger vine grow up from the soil. <br><br>The speed at which this came out and moved was beyond anything a normal plant could have produced. The vine slipped out of the soil at a visible speed, curling itself around the forehead of the creator. There it rubbed, a soft, silken texture, gently releasing a soothing mint scent as it moved over her head. It wouldn’t know how to respond to a reaction from her until well after it happened. The plant was still learning, after all, but it would keep rubbing until the creator moved or until she seemed to be in less pain. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Playing God (Glitches Are Cool and Edelweiss)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Edelweiss</strong> on <strong>03-02-2013, 23:42:04</strong>
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				She didn't bother to pay attention to the movements out of the corner of her eye. Laura wasn't a particularly suspicious person or one who scares easily. It was late and the lights did have a tendency to flicker if they were on for a long period of time. So logically, the shadows that played at the edges of her vision were most likely a trick of the light or her tired mind playing tricks on her. It wasn't until the plant had touched her that she realized that something else was happening entirely. She froze. Breath stuck in her throat while the vine rubbed at her forehead.<br><br>Fear came first. Then surprise, followed by amazement. She had never seen anything like it before. The length of the vine was much longer, which means it grew in the span of a couple minutes. It was brilliant. It seemed to move with intent, as if it thought for itself. If it really did, this would be a great step towards genetics. Leaps and bounds would be achieved. The ache in her lungs reminded her she was still holding her breath. The scent of mint filled her nose. It was supposed to be soothing and cool but it only made her excited. It could replicate smells. But only only that, it seemed to be doing it to help with her headache. It was reacting actively to outside stimuli.<br><br>Carefully, she turned to it so that she could observe its movements. Laura reached for it, touching another leaf gently with the tip of her finger before reaching for her notebook and pen. "What are you doing?" She whispered, jotting down notes quickly. Estimated length. It's odd behavior and mint scent. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Playing God (Glitches Are Cool and Edelweiss)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Glitches are cool</strong> on <strong>04-02-2013, 00:13:01</strong>
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				The vine slowly retracted back into the soil, as though confused at the sudden movement from the woman. The plant slowly waved the bright orange orb back and forth, as though dancing or getting a sense of the area around it. It was confined to the small pot, and it expected there to be little soil for it to borrow into outside of the ceramic. The scent was being produced, and the large leaves around the stem coupled with the movements of the plant, it seemed to be spreading the smell into the air, intentionally or not. The sudden interest in the plant only encouraged it to move a little more, reacting to the excitement of its maker. It didn’t know what the sudden puffs of air coming from her were, as it didn’t know much about a spoken language. Plants usually relied on scents and chemicals to convey things, though the cool mint in the air was just to relax the headache away. <br><br>Now what would it do? She just seemed to be holding still, so once again, the vine grew out, spinning blindly in the air until it touched her cheek. Now it had a connection, and it could sense her a little bit better, climbing over her forehead again. Keep doing what worked the first time, right? Without anything else to work with, that would be what the plant would do at the moment. 
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