The Big Picture: Science!

[Slash Joel]

Well as a biologist the cultured meat is tougher then it seems just like harvesting organs from homeless people is easier then growing organs (joke). The jetpack is just dangerous even more so in the hands of my brother who always forgets to refuel, the lieing thing would work, and as for small animals i would like a giant rabit to ride instead.

 

[shadowmagus]

Great episode. Somethings I'm not entirely sure are feasible, but hey, it's your show so what do I care if I was entertained.

Seriously though, Glen Beck...rocket...moon. Let's make this happen.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

No, Bob. That was not fun and you should not do it again.

1: MovieBob forgot to include the movie.
2: Back to including your liberal politics, on a website called "The Escapist". Irony fail.
3: I hope this episode was some kind of secret satire because otherwise it is a staggering display of ignorance and thoughtless mouth noise.

Google "Frankenfood". Good luck marketing THAT to people or convincing a grocery store to stock it. You think "Corn Sugar" creates a backlash? Wait till you wheel out the vat meat. Never mind the cost per pound to produce vat meat vs the same for real meat.

Here's an idea. Take your politics, put it on your jetpack, fly it to the moon with promises of gold, and leave it there.

MUST HAVE HAMBEAR!!!!

Seriously though, I want the bear the size of a hamster.

Yay, for the we should not do something becuase it will initially be expensive and people will initially suspicious about it argument.

Fortunately it is an argument most is stupid, else we would not have half the stuff we now take for granted...

... I'm confused, whose statement are you trying to discredit here?

 

[esperandote]

Yeah, billions wasted on a lie when it could be used to feed people... no reason for punishment there.

 

[ph0b0s123]

No, Bob. That was not fun and you should not do it again.

1: MovieBob forgot to include the movie.
2: Back to including your liberal politics, on a website called "The Escapist". Irony fail.
3: I hope this episode was some kind of secret satire because otherwise it is a staggering display of ignorance and thoughtless mouth noise.

Google "Frankenfood". Good luck marketing THAT to people or convincing a grocery store to stock it. You think "Corn Sugar" creates a backlash? Wait till you wheel out the vat meat. Never mind the cost per pound to produce vat meat vs the same for real meat.

Here's an idea. Take your politics, put it on your jetpack, fly it to the moon with promises of gold, and leave it there.

MUST HAVE HAMBEAR!!!!

Seriously though, I want the bear the size of a hamster.

Yay, for the we should not do something becuase it will initially be expensive and people will initially suspicious about it argument.

Fortunately it is an argument most is stupid, else we would not have half the stuff we now take for granted...

... I'm confused, whose statement are you trying to discredit here?

Sorry, misquoted you. Meant to quote someone else...

 

[DearFilm]

I feel as though if we can't get people behind the idea of building pipelines or drill in Alaska, you'd have a viciously abysmal time trying to get people to even considering drilling on Mars. That was a poor idea.

All the rest is pretty ok though. I do want a teacup bear. Or Komodo Dragon.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

You want to go from the desert to the Dominion War bob?

 

[newguy77]

Where is that first jetpack image from? 0:32

I'm pretty sure it's from The Rocketeer, a movie where a guy gets a jetpack and has to keep it away from Nazis.
EDIT: I'm about 99.9% sure it's from The Rocketeer, looking at the IMDb page.

OT: But cultured meat would taste like despair. Oh I hope someone gets that reference.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

I hate these nerdy rantings that so frequently pop up on the web. If you really care so much, why not work towards yourself, instead of just complaining to people for not bothering to fulfill a lazy nerd's dreams for him. And besides, there are jet-packs, they're just sh*t.

 

[Aptspire]

Hey, Glen Beck.
Do you like, mmmmmmmmmh bananas?

 

[Falseprophet]

I love meat and am pretty handy with a grill, but I am totally on board for cultured meat. Raising and slaughtering livestock for calories is a really inefficient use of resources and if there's a cheaper way that uses less real estate and less slaughter to make meat that tastes the same and offers the same nutritional benefits (or better) we should all be in favour of it. Heck, Taco Bell admitted their meat is like 1/3 real beef to 2/3 soy already, so it's not like the taste actually matters to the average fast-food junkie.

Hate to say it, but the reason we're still on Earth is because any type of bacteria on another planet would kill everyone it touched, most likely.

I love H.G. Wells, but his understanding of biology is a century old. Why would bacteria evolve to prey on organisms from a biosphere on a completely alien planet? It makes no evolutionary sense.

 

[Furioso]

1: MovieBob forgot to include the movie.

...This wasn't escape to the movies, this is his second show, where he can talk about whatever he wants to talk about, he does the moviebob show on fridays

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

Great episode. Somethings I'm not entirely sure are feasible, but hey, it's your show so what do I care if I was entertained.

Seriously though, Glen Beck...rocket...moon. Let's make this happen.

I don't know, that could potentially backfire. Like if he gets picked up by some wandering Ferengi vessel, or something.

 

[Dargocitfer]

Regarding "cultured meat", all I think of is this:

Spoiler: Yummy!

 

[BgRdMchne]

You are never going into space.
You will never own a jet pack.
Your car will never fly.
HIV will not be cured in your lifetime.
Cancer will not be cured in your lifetime.
The common cold will not be cured in your lifetime.
Don't these things bother you?

You don't know these things

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

- Mark Twain

Hope is the denial of reality.

- Margaret Weis

 

[ph0b0s123]

The CURRENT problem with cultured meat is that it doesn't taste or feel like meat. Meat CURRENTLY only gets its taste and texture because the creature has had stuff like breathing, blood flow, exercise etc etc. It's be more like meat pudding.

Also, you may have noticed that it needs lab equipment to be made. How the hell are the people in Africa going to get that AS THINGS STAND AT THE MOMENT? And even if we in the first world use it, it won't end up in the massive surplus for the rest due to corporate interests. (See the entirety of the diamond industry)

Corrected this portion of your post...

Finally, it's not going to result in happier cows. Those farm animals are bred to be eaten, that is literally their purpose in life, and they have pretty cushy lives right up until they're slaughtered. If millions of meat and fish farmers were suddenly told '"Yeah, we're not using them anymore, we're growing meat in labs now" you think they'd just shrug and let the animals free? Hell no! They'd just kill them all so they don't lose astronomical amounts of money feeding the (now useless) things, and most will still probably go out of business and lose their homes as their livelihood becomes redundant.

Yes, there not be the need to have as many cows as there are now. There probably be as many as there are Bison still kicking around. Guess what animal rights supporters are fine with that....

 

[unacomn]

I've seen what cultured meet looks like right now. It's technically meat, but it's more of a liquidy extra squishy viscousy substance. It's still a few years away from being hamburgerable.

Also, a hamster the size of a bear would be awesome. Then everyone will see that Minsc wasn't crazy.

 

[Rotating Bread]

As a biologist I think I'll take the cultured meat question.

Of course it is possible to create cultured meat that could be used instead of animals, but at present the technology has not been developed on an industrial scale. Currently the costs involved producing cultured meat are many many times that of producing meat normally.

Secondly the meat produced may look, smell and most crucially taste different from normal meat and just may not be palatable to most people. In addition the whole pointless furore over GM foods demonstrates how resistant people can be to what they see as science 'interfering' with food.

 

[Vampire cat]

Science was going to feed the world, and take us to space.... But then, Green Peace...

 

[wolf thing]

for question one, it is because we had a revolution of information not energy, we can hold thousands of sound and image on a chip the size of a finger nail but cannot power it for more than a couple of hours while not connected to the mains. we still rely on fosul fuel and chemical batters for there to be any way of having a portable power supply for your jet pack. but if we keep working on necluar power maby some day

question 2, you need to ask a biologist

question 3, could work but it would be hard to hide it from private company or observver.

question 4, it would require us to kill all bears of a large size to decress there size over a long period of time, or use a shrink ray but for that we would need that power supply from question one.

there are my answers