9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers

New submitter SessionExpired writes "Five 9th graders from Denmark have shown that garden cress won't germinate when placed near a router (Google Translation of Danish original). Article text is in Danish, but the pictures illustrate their results. The exact mechanism is still unknown (Danish original), but experts have shown interest in reproducing the experiment."

No reproduction

[quintus_horatius]

experts have shown interest in reproducing the experiment

Or not reproducing, as the case may be.

Neither will...

[dlingman]

Your typical slashdotter probably sits closer to their router than the plants. And is about as likely to germinate.

Re:A perfect weedkiller!

[Anonymous Coward]

Shhh... Montsanto is listening

I'm pretty sure I'm already sterile

[WillgasM]

When I was 16 or so, I was working on my uncle's boat in Alaska. It was a slow day, so we were painting railings and such. I heard my uncle call my name, wondering where I was. I called back that I was on top of the wheelhouse. He went ahead and shut off the radar, but I'd already been standing next to it for and hour or more. I honestly don't mind since pulling out seems so unnatural. I guess if I ever want to have kids I'll just have to try harder and think fertile thoughts.

Re:Now do it again

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy shit, I need to get my router out of my grow room.

Re:Bit misleading

[WillgasM]

Yea, because we were obviously going to blame IP for the result.

Maybe it was an old router

[Anonymous Coward]

and the flowers have already switched to IPv6.

Doubtful on the outgassing...

[denzacar]

...as it grows fine on keyboards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cress_keyboard-3_sprouting_other_side.jpg [wikipedia.org]

Re:Neither will...

[spasm]

More info would be nice - How old were you? How old was your wife? How old was your milkman?

Re:Bit misleading

[clarkn0va]

Not until we can rule out NAT acceleration.

Re:Bit misleading

[SuricouRaven]

This is what happens when carrier-level NAT is deployed. Even the plants would rather die than live with NAT.

Re:Neither will...

[PopeRatzo]

Your typical slashdotter probably sits closer to their router than the plants. And is about as likely to germinate.

Good thing, too, or we'd see a rash of siamese sextuplets.

Though, to be fair, I'd thought that all the hallucinogens I took back in college had messed up my genes royally, but my daughter turned out perfect. Better than perfect. She can type like a banshee with those twelve fingers.

Re:Need a control.

[ChrisMaple]

Microsoft will love this. Linux kills living things!