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Using plants by scientists in the military is plausible. However, I view this kind of "science" as immoral because God has created these plants and animals and has placed man as their caretaker and provider, but scientists are tampering with the DNA of plants and animals and are re-creating this God-given life for use as spies.

Instead of worshiping God as his Creator, man is worshiping himself and seeing himself as creator. Indeed, certain novelists have already written and have been "warning" or "advising" us about these futuristic scientific plans.

The Hunger Games, in particular, stressed the use of animal and plant life as possible spies, and so did C.S.Lewis, who worked for British Intelligence during WWII. Reread Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia where both plant and animals served as spies. The word "whisperings" comes to mind as the wind rustles through the leaves and then carries their messages to other plants and animals. Scientists have already noted how plants release pheromones as warnings in scientific writings that have been already published. Plants also "feel" stress when they are injured, and this stress can be measured by the release of pheromones. A recently published article said that plants can "feel" when they are eaten.

So, the next time you see an insect eating a fresh lettuce leaf still attached to a living plant, realize that the lettuce plant may be hearing or somehow sensing that an insect is crunching away and destroying its very life. Perhaps that plant does not fully realize that it is being eaten. However, human victims of Lyme Disease also may not "detect" the actual presence of spirochetes eating away at their brains and their bodies, but certainly victims of Lyme Disease feel weakness, malaise, fevers, chills, night sweats, muscle aches, joint pains, nightmares, and headaches. They may even suffer delusions and paranoia. In addition, even Dr. Mercola said that bipolar, schizophrenia, and other forms of mental illness could be caused by this diabolical spirochete.

While plants do not possess brains, they do produce hormones and aromatic compounds that can affect their own life and the lives of those plants and animals around them. To be more specific, consider the aromatic compounds found in poison oak, poison ivy, and other poisonous plants.

Consider the stinging nettle. It has the same poison found in ants, formic acid. How did plants come to possess the same poison found in ants?

Observe too that certain frogs and lizards can eat a poisonous plant, but not die. Instead, in some marvelous way, these frogs and lizards are able to relocate and concentrate that poison to specific glands in their body. When people touch those glands, they can become very ill or even die. In the Amazon, people have learned that this poison can be used in warfare as their arrows are dipped into this poison to disable and kill their opponents.

So, now the U.S. Military wants to use plants as part of their spying network.

Genetically modified plants could be employed as self-sustaining sensors to gather information in settings unsuitable for more traditional technologies.

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for the development of emerging technologies in the US military, has called for scientists to submit ideas for how to harness the power of plants.

In the past, DARPA has produced information-gathering technologies such as the satellites and seismographs employed to ensure Soviet compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

To read the rest of this article, please visit: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 71646.html

This also reminds me of my training as a Girl Scout back when they were not involved with Planned Parenthood.
However, the Boy and Girl Guides (Scouts) were a forerunner of the Nazi youth programmes as well as the mandatory youth programs in the Soviet Union, which served as recruitment for the Communist Party.

When taking nature walks or camping, we would walk quietly through the woods and listen attentively to the whisperings of the wind and the scents that they carried. If we carelessly trampled on peppermint or any of the mint family (spearmint, peppermint, thyme, worehound, etc), their fragrance would quickly spread far and wide.

Members of the onion family would likewise emit strong aromatic compounds.

Brushing against a pine tree would also betray our presence.

So, the following excerpts from the article linked in the OP (above) would show that same line of thinking:

“Plants are highly attuned to their environments and naturally manifest physiological responses to basic stimuli such as light and temperature, but also in some cases to touch, chemicals, pests and pathogens,” said Dr Blake Bextine, the manager of the ATP programme.

“Emerging molecular and modelling techniques may make it possible to reprogramme these detection and reporting capabilities for a wide range of stimuli, which would not only open up new intelligence streams, but also reduce the personnel risks and costs associated with traditional sensors,” said Dr Bextine.