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I ran the campaign and I'll be hanging around here for the next hour or so if people have questions

Wooooo, explicit bias time!

This is the kind of thing we like over at Crowdtilt: fun enough to be fun, sciency enough to be sciency.

We have a platform called Crowdtilt Open ( http://open.crowdtilt.com/ ) that would be great for this, if you're interested.

Disclaimer: I'm saying "we" because I work there.

What will it take before I can line my driveway with these or these and they be effective?

This is the only competitor I saw of yours, is your plant currently better than theirs? http://bioglowtech.com/

Your wikipedia page says that your estimated ship date is June of 2014, this isn't correct, is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Plant_project

I'm confused, apparently Kickstarter has a ban on GMO rewards, but one of the rewards for your project is glowing seeds. Is that not GMO?

The ban was introduced after our project was funded. This article is a great discussion of what happened: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2149613...

Have you guys actually succeeded in making a plant that visibly glows in the dark, or is it still proving difficult to make something bright enough for the human eye to see?

It's dim, but visible. This is a 30 second exposure: http://postimg.org/image/8wmx7rl29/

We are working on improving the luminosity (note I edited this one as couldn't reply to the following reply yet)

How visible? Any pictures without really long exposures?

It's comparable to glow in the dark paint or other bioluminescent animals.

is the plant biosynthesizing its own luciferin (the critical compound that produces the photon) or are you feeding it to the plant?

Is the plan to make them brighter?

very cool project. Reading the website (not the post) I found myself thinking "this is a hoax" more than once :-)

Unsolicited feedback: please get rid of all the annoying overlays on the website. I counted 3, one cannot be closed (join mailing list) and another keeps opening even if I keep closing it (chat)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll make them less annoying/better designed.

Also, the images at the bottom/text at the top look a tad bit blurry (on Home page)

yeah, and wow. It says its 12 pt font, but it looks like 8 pt.. so small ?

Can the modified plant reproduce?

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