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Author Topic: SCIENCE, Gravitational waves, and the whole LIGO OST!  (Read 512882 times)

Helgoland

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #900 on: October 25, 2013, 10:20:43 am »

FLESH IS STRONGER THAN STEEL!
Naah, just cheaper and more plentiful.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #901 on: October 25, 2013, 10:37:39 am »

I wouldn't say more plentiful.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #902 on: October 25, 2013, 12:38:28 pm »

It can be produced more easily...
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« Reply #903 on: October 25, 2013, 01:48:38 pm »

Wikipedia says that human flesh production is about 350 million tons annually, whereas steel production is 1547.8 million tons annually (as of 2012).
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #904 on: October 25, 2013, 01:50:13 pm »

Then again, there's more meat than just human.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #905 on: October 25, 2013, 02:16:55 pm »

Wikipedia says that human flesh production is about 350 million tons annually, whereas steel production is 1547.8 million tons annually (as of 2012).
....I can't decide whether or not to be disturbed that someone has calculated annual human flesh production.
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« Reply #906 on: October 25, 2013, 07:28:31 pm »

Then again, there's more meat than just human.
Also, human meat production is not optimised. There's huge efficiency gains to be had by selective breeding and a carefully calibrated dietary and reproductive cycle!
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #907 on: October 25, 2013, 09:24:40 pm »

Then again, there's more meat than just human.
Also, human meat production is not optimised. There's huge efficiency gains to be had by selective breeding and a carefully calibrated dietary and reproductive cycle!
Inb4 eugenics argument.

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #908 on: October 25, 2013, 09:28:56 pm »

I just can't wait until we have artificially-grown meat so I can eat humans without the whole ethical conundrum of "having to kill or at least maim a human" to get the meat.

... Also other meats too.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #909 on: October 25, 2013, 09:29:28 pm »

There's always test tube babies.

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« Reply #910 on: October 25, 2013, 09:42:46 pm »

And delicious crunchy fetuses.
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« Reply #911 on: October 26, 2013, 12:07:31 am »

I just can't wait until we have artificially-grown meat so I can eat humans without the whole ethical conundrum of "having to kill or at least maim a human" to get the meat.

... Also other meats too.
That's... actually really interesting, and I hadn't thought of that. Because, yeah, we can create In Vitro Meat, and have even made a burger with it that tasted pretty decent (though was incredibly expensive, since it was a test-burger, grown in the lab with the loving care of scientists, rather than industrially produced)... Which does mean you could create a line of human meat products for sale.
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« Reply #912 on: October 26, 2013, 12:10:11 am »

Descan, have you considered grave robbing?
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #913 on: October 26, 2013, 01:17:05 am »

A problem with cannibalism is however that it carries an increased risk of prion diseases.
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« Reply #914 on: October 26, 2013, 01:28:00 am »

... Mad Human Disease, great!
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