Cool story, bro.

This is a terrible idea because it would never work as you think it would and we have Left 4 Dead/Resident Evil/ some apocalyptic scenario.

Lol zombies with plants growing all over them.

Don't worry, the skin contains proteins that the virus would know to target. If I wanted to create a zombie virus I would target the frontal lobe and wipe out all decision making and causing people to turn into zombies. What's funny is that spongiform encepholopathy just spontaneously targets random areas of the brain and removes them. If you could re engineer that to only target the frontal lobe, instant zombie virus. Sad thing about that is, you'd have to eat the zombie's brain to get it. Lol reverse food chain.

Lol zombies with plants growing all over them.

NO.

It's supposed to be the Plants VERSUS the Zombies! THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS

I've been working on things like this for a couple of years now and have learned the following:

1. Don't discount something, no matter how proposterous, as impossible. I was suprised by the possiblity of people becoming furry.

2. Don't actually try it. It doesn't take a genious to determine that keeping what ever it is that you wish to try under control will be nearly impossible, espesially if it is a virus.

Example: The Enigmavirus was intended to affect a small group, but now nearly 75% of the population has it. Why? Because it was able to infect every cell and as a result, allowing it to directly infect neighboring cells, even those in other tissues, making vaccines useless. Actually, that is something all such pathogen do, but those that can infect many tissues can do it over a greater area, meaning more of them are made. This also means an infection can go from the toe to the brain without entering the bloodstream.

My opinon: Go with the big mouth and fur, it's simpler and has more utilty than that idea. I am not that fond of most plants anyways.

As to the computer, I think we already have computers that replicate emotions to a certain degree.

Lol zombies with plants growing all over them.

NO.It's supposed to be the Plants VERSUS the Zombies. THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS

The Infoderpiac.

That is all.

"Would you want to be turned into a green half-plant-half-human hybrid?"

Am I the only who thought of creepers? They're textures kinda look... leaf-ish.

ya.

If this idea turns into Black Mesa, don't expect me to turn all Barney and save you...

Plot of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

That is all.

Alpha, a virus can easily mutate it's genetic code. We already went over this. It will most likely turn from a blessing into an epidemic that causes death just because one little codon changed.

It won't work. For one, your body doesn't have enough of a surface-area to volume mass that would be able to support a photosynthetic support system. Think of plants; their leaves (needles?) have a large surface area for a relatively small volume. This is perfect for trapping enough photons and carbon dioxide to produce sugars, with a [relatively] small amount of cells necessary. But your body on the other hand hs a much smaller surface area-volume ratio. Thus far, you might produce some sugars for food, but 1) It wouldn't be near enough, and 2) You still need nutrients from other sources to keep your body going. It just isn't biologically effective for this.

There's a reason that we don't have chloroplasts in our skin cells. We have evolved, specialized in obtaining food from autotrophs, not becoming one. If it was biologically effective for the human body to become photosynthetic, then we'd be plants right now, but humans.

For two, your body is coated with dead skin cells. Inserting chloroplasts into those cells would not allow for the products to reach your body. And if you inplant cells into your actual dermis and not just the epidermis, the dermis will eventually become the epidermis and oh look dead cells.

For three, chloroplasts are not synthesized from DNA in the cell's nucleus. They replicate from other chloroplasts, just as mitochondria replicate from other mitochondria. Both chloroplasts and mitochondria contain their own DNA for these processes (and other things).

In short, there's many flaws to this ideology.

It won't work. For one, your body doesn't have enough of a surface-area to volume mass that would be able to support a photosynthetic support system. Think of plants; their leaves (needles?) have a large surface area for a relatively small volume. This is perfect for trapping enough photons and carbon dioxide to produce sugars, with a [relatively] small amount of cells necessary. But your body on the other hand hs a much smaller surface area-volume ratio. Thus far, you might produce some sugars for food, but 1) It wouldn't be near enough, and 2) You still need nutrients from other sources to keep your body going. It just isn't biologically effective for this.There's a reason that we don't have chloroplasts in our skin cells. We have evolved, specialized in obtaining food from autotrophs, not becoming one. If it was biologically effective for the human body to become photosynthetic, then we'd be plants right now, but humans.For two, your body is coated with dead skin cells. Inserting chloroplasts into those cells would not allow for the products to reach your body. And if you inplant cells into your actual dermis and not just the epidermis, the dermis will eventually become the epidermis and oh look dead cells.For three, chloroplasts are not synthesized from DNA in the cell's nucleus. They replicate from other chloroplasts, just as mitochondria replicate from other mitochondria. Both chloroplasts and mitochondria contain their own DNA for these processes (and other things).In short, there's many flaws to this ideology.

Dern it, I was hoping that nobody would catch that stuff. You deserve a cookie. *gives cookie*

It won't work. For one, your body doesn't have enough of a surface-area to volume mass that would be able to support a photosynthetic support system. Think of plants; their leaves (needles?) have a large surface area for a relatively small volume. This is perfect for trapping enough photons and carbon dioxide to produce sugars, with a [relatively] small amount of cells necessary. But your body on the other hand hs a much smaller surface area-volume ratio. Thus far, you might produce some sugars for food, but 1) It wouldn't be near enough, and 2) You still need nutrients from other sources to keep your body going. It just isn't biologically effective for this.There's a reason that we don't have chloroplasts in our skin cells. We have evolved, specialized in obtaining food from autotrophs, not becoming one. If it was biologically effective for the human body to become photosynthetic, then we'd be plants right now, but humans.For two, your body is coated with dead skin cells. Inserting chloroplasts into those cells would not allow for the products to reach your body. And if you inplant cells into your actual dermis and not just the epidermis, the dermis will eventually become the epidermis and oh look dead cells.For three, chloroplasts are not synthesized from DNA in the cell's nucleus. They replicate from other chloroplasts, just as mitochondria replicate from other mitochondria. Both chloroplasts and mitochondria contain their own DNA for these processes (and other things).In short, there's many flaws to this ideology.

Dern it, I was hoping that nobody would catch that stuff. You deserve a cookie. *gives cookie*

Dern it, you didn't catch my 'Enter's.

*Noms on cookie* Thanks