To Build a Better Soy Bean

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To Build a Better Soy Bean; $100,000,000 prize
Topic Started: Aug 21 2011, 07:20 PM (338 Views)
Springfield Baptist	Aug 21 2011, 07:20 PM Post #1
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	The Springfield Baptist Church invites the universities and bioengineering companies of the world to participate in a contest to produce a better soy bean (our congregation's #1 cash crop). Please submit your creation and its specifications to the Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture by the end of this fiscal year. Grand prize will receive 100 million SB dollars. Extensive innovation and crossbreeding are encouraged. Edited by Springfield Baptist, Aug 22 2011, 02:00 AM.



The Authority of the Grand Moff	Aug 21 2011, 10:19 PM Post #2
2nd Lieutenant Posts: 460 Group: Members Member #657 Joined: February 11, 2011	The COMPNOR Corporation would like to enter this competition, but we request more information on what, if any, improvements are sought. --Moff Piett



Springfield Baptist	Aug 22 2011, 02:14 AM Post #3
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture welcomes the COMPNOR Corporation to the competition. My God bless your biological endeavors. The competition welcomes all forms of biological enhancement and innovation ranging from conventional improvements to yield and hardiness to engineering new strains to produce valuable biochemicals used in the pharmaceutical or textile industry or even as fuel. Out-side-the-box thinking is highly encouraged. Edited by Springfield Baptist, Aug 22 2011, 02:22 AM.



NRE	Aug 22 2011, 02:42 PM Post #4
Map Tsar and Southern Gentleman Posts: 9,266 Group: Admin Member #120 Joined: April 21, 2005	A delegation of officials with the Federation of East African Nations will be entering the contest. The Federation shall employ the expertise of the Agriculture Secretariat. the Agency for Research and Planning, and the Agency for Technological and Environmental Assessment. Furthermore, they shall be instituting ideas from the Federation's top agricultural institutes of higher learning for this development project. Officials feel confident that even if they cannot complete the task on time and win the contest, just research will be invaluable to the Federation as it continues to improve the agricultural output of its member nations. Edited by NRE, Aug 22 2011, 02:44 PM.



Springfield Baptist	Sep 9 2011, 11:43 AM Post #5
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	We welcome the delegation from the Federation of East African Nations. May God bless your endeavors. -The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture



Springfield Baptist	Sep 24 2011, 04:02 PM Post #6
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture would like to reiterate once more its invitation to all nations, academic institutions and corporate entities of the world to participate in the contest to create the next generation of soy bean. All applications still accepted.



NRE	Sep 25 2011, 09:22 PM Post #7
Map Tsar and Southern Gentleman Posts: 9,266 Group: Admin Member #120 Joined: April 21, 2005	Press Release East African Federation After months of experimentation, the scientific group experimenting on Soy Beans announced today that they believed they were on the verge of a major breakthrough. Though they are not entirely sure if their experiments will come to an end before the time limit imposed on them by the Springfield Baptist Church, they do feel that a breakthrough is imminent and could truly revolutionize the Soy Bean market. Indeed, the group has employed extra security measures in their testing facility and have released little data beyond very inclusive findings from initial experiments.



Springfield Baptist	Sep 26 2011, 10:05 AM Post #8
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture will extend the deadline of the competition one year to encourage competition and provide time for the further development of the contestant's ideas.



East Anarx	Sep 26 2011, 10:31 AM Post #9
Anarchitect Posts: 4,788 Group: Multi Member #210 Joined: January 16, 2006	Arx Terra Laboratories, (a mysterious bio-engineering research organization headquartered in the lowest levels of the mostly ruined and crumbling artificial island-city of Esternarius II,) sent the Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture a small box containing a dozen seeds. Delivered by one of Eastanarx's many competing private mail delivery services, the package arrived on the desk of the Agriculture Minister marked only with the small, unassuming logo of Arx Terra Labs: a stylized pi-symbol-esque arch rising out of a cartoonish depiction of the earth.



Springfield Baptist	Sep 26 2011, 02:54 PM Post #10
Hedonist Puritan Posts: 148 Group: Members Member #671 Joined: April 6, 2011	The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture received it's first submission today from Arx Terra Laboratories of Esternarius II. One curious farmer on the ministry board took the liberty of planting three of the seeds in his garden. The ministry would like to request more information on the origin and purpose of these seeds from Arx Terra Labs before further action is taken.



Nag Ehgoeg	Oct 15 2011, 01:47 PM Post #11
The Devil's Advocate Posts: 7,238 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: December 26, 2003	On behalf of the ARN, we at Inversiones Florpaila Inc. would like to enter with a soy bean we have recently begun to cultivate in Ci�naga. While the yield and composition of the bean is unaltered (and, indeed, the optimal growing conditions and the taste of the bean have not been improved), the bean is resistant to almost all known diseases. Crops can be grown organically with practically no routine use of pesticide, without fear of rot or viral infections destroying large quantities of the crop. Should infection take route in the crop, the bean is genetically engineered to be resistant to specifically formulated pesticides (that we are mass producing in Colombia and are available for general export). We at Florpaila are confident that The Springfield Baptist Ministry of Agriculture will receive many innovative entries and wish to express our interest in working with other competitors to build a "super-bean" that combines the various advantages of all the entries. Bean samples are enclosed.



Devin Wire	Dec 23 2011, 03:00 AM Post #12
Captain Posts: 1,063 Group: Members Member #327 Joined: April 4, 2007	Queen Ezri of Zeelar We apologize in advance, but we must condemn this research. Though it is done with noble means in mind, such research can easily build variants that will crowd out natural beans in the same way that an invasive species does to a native one. This is very dangerous, and the official position of the Zeelaran Throne is that this sort of thing must end at once. We suggest that formal research should go into farming techniques and manners to get more out of the land without having to resort to unnatural methods of agriculture that could be potentially quite harmful. While We realize this must alienate the nation of Zeelar in the world's eyes, We take that as it may be. However, We know that in our heart of hearts, this is the way it has to be to protect the environment for a better and brighter future. Moreover, this should be the method by which smaller, individual farmers receive fair treatment and genuine wages.


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