The Big Picture: Science!
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Great episode Bob! Kind of like the Junk Drawer only with the science theme. Maybe we can get another one of these down the line? Also, a bear the size of a hamster would be the kind of pet that sells like a furby. I would want a couple but the thing to worry about would be the diet. I don't want to wake up with a partially chewed off anything.
...kind of surprised by the number of negative posts here...it's almost as though they forgot that this is an opinion show.
...kind of surprised by the number of negative posts here...it's almost as though they forgot that this is an opinion show.
...i'm not sure what to make of this... i do wanna a jet pack, and a hamster the size of a bear would be awesome. for a little while at least. The cultured meat thing... ehhh... mybe it's just because i'm from texas, but somehow lab grown steaks just don't appease my appetite. I don't know, i'm omnivorous and really like meats. don't know i probably wouldn't know or be able to tell the difference but it's still something that kinda struck me as wrong.
The cultured meat is all well and good, but instead of having the dirty, emaciated, hippies protesting Mc Ribs, you'd have massive christian organizations telling them to stop playing God. Personally, I think the hippies are less bothersome and easier get around since they're all sickly and hungry from never eating actual food.
haha! jet pack is cool... but I'd rather have a hover car(actually, I want my mini-van to hover)... it's not just ME flying, it's ME + THE FAMILY flying to the beach avoiding all the traffic, and find the parking spot and just land the sucker down, but I probably need a weaponized anti-theft system built in, or "Bat-Mobio lock down"...um...
I agreed to ditch Glen Beck on moon... but just ditching him is not good enough, give him a cable TV with ONLY (video)GAME CHANNEL!!! MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!~~~~
I ALSO want a space Gal... just not green though... I think color... matters... I wouldn't mind elf ear, or antenna though... but please, no bug/furry/bold/lizard/xenomorph things... ewww...
I agreed to ditch Glen Beck on moon... but just ditching him is not good enough, give him a cable TV with ONLY (video)GAME CHANNEL!!! MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!~~~~
I ALSO want a space Gal... just not green though... I think color... matters... I wouldn't mind elf ear, or antenna though... but please, no bug/furry/bold/lizard/xenomorph things... ewww...
We need some animals for stuff other than meat; wool, milk. Cost of these would massively increase if no-one wanted the meat as well. Animals useful for just their meat would become borderline extinct, to quote a 'that mitchell and webb look' sketch: "pigs are expensive, pink and annoying but they're also delicious which is why we breed so many of them, there might be more people bears if more people wanted one for breakfast"
Over the millenia, we've bred cows to need to eat colossal amounts of grain to survive. If we stopped farming cows, they'd starve to death because nobody would be feeding them anymore. The cows need us now.
You've really got to give credit to Bioware's art team that I can actually tell the asari apart. That is Liara, right?hurricanejbb said:
He already did, and made a video about it. I suggest that you check his archives.Nicolaus99 said:
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?
Suicide is the third biggest killer of teenagers in the United States.
In 1999 more people in America died from suicide than from homicide.
Do you think about this?
As anyone who ever read MyDeathSpace.com for any period of time know, the leading cause of death in America is automobile accident. This is generally interpolated into a number placed under the heading "accidental death." When the operation of cars is the leading cause of loss of life I'm not entirely sure how it comes under the term "accidental death." It wasn't a fucking accident, it was done by someone with a car. It's 2007 and we don't know how to operate cars without killing people. It's not a fucking accident if it was caused by someone getting into a one-ton metal bullet that cannot be operated with complete control at all times.
In Europe in 2004, 13000 kids ? persons under the age of fourteen -- died due to poor water. It?s 2007 and the society does not yet understand how to operate water.
Are you thinking about this now?
People keep asking me what DOKTOR SLEEPLESS is about. This is what it's about.
Someone stole your future. Don't you ever wonder who?
-Warren Ellis on the DOKTOR SLEEPLESS comic. From: http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/92053.html
I think he says it all.
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?
Suicide is the third biggest killer of teenagers in the United States.
In 1999 more people in America died from suicide than from homicide.
Do you think about this?
As anyone who ever read MyDeathSpace.com for any period of time know, the leading cause of death in America is automobile accident. This is generally interpolated into a number placed under the heading "accidental death." When the operation of cars is the leading cause of loss of life I'm not entirely sure how it comes under the term "accidental death." It wasn't a fucking accident, it was done by someone with a car. It's 2007 and we don't know how to operate cars without killing people. It's not a fucking accident if it was caused by someone getting into a one-ton metal bullet that cannot be operated with complete control at all times.
In Europe in 2004, 13000 kids ? persons under the age of fourteen -- died due to poor water. It?s 2007 and the society does not yet understand how to operate water.
Are you thinking about this now?
People keep asking me what DOKTOR SLEEPLESS is about. This is what it's about.
Someone stole your future. Don't you ever wonder who?
-Warren Ellis on the DOKTOR SLEEPLESS comic. From: http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/92053.html
I think he says it all.
The problem with cultured meat is that it doesn't taste or feel like meat. Meat 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? 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)
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.
tl;dr You can't suddenly advance technology unless culture keeps up with it, even if you think it'd be a good idea. It's that sort of thinking that led to the horrendous loss of life in WW1, and is probably one of the reasons so many are sceptical of solar power today.
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? 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)
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.
tl;dr You can't suddenly advance technology unless culture keeps up with it, even if you think it'd be a good idea. It's that sort of thinking that led to the horrendous loss of life in WW1, and is probably one of the reasons so many are sceptical of solar power today.
Bob as a science nerd I have answers to some of your questions. First, be patient. We're working on it. Second do more resurch yourself. Getting the stuff we need to make these things is difficult. This is a problem I see with a ton of more "liberal" people. You seem to know very little about the process behind things and just demand, often unresonable, results.
Well I can assume the people who think genetic engineer fruits and vegetables are a abomination mention ages ago on The Big Picture will think growing meat from cells is also a abomination even when there no killing animal involves (what can I say they are narrow minded people).
Also lying won't do anything good either even when it's expose after you had died. The repercussions for lying will be great.
Also lying won't do anything good either even when it's expose after you had died. The repercussions for lying will be great.