2010-01-15, 06:57 | Link #5401 | |
Disabled By Request
|
Quote:
Be careful with BBC. It likes to quote Wikipedia |
|
2010-01-15, 07:07 | Link #5402 | |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2010-01-15, 07:37 | Link #5405 |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
actually I take that back because that was a stupid thing for me to say. I meant, well I know about it (it hasn't flown entirely over my head), it just hasn't affected me in any way (that may be because I'm a teen and I really couldn't care about it too much, or really because we aren't jumping up and down so much about it).
__________________
|
2010-01-15, 07:42 | Link #5406 | |
Disabled By Request
|
Quote:
|
|
2010-01-15, 08:04 | Link #5407 | |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
Quote:
Which brings me onto yet another point (god i'm good at carrying on). Everyone's saying buy a Prius. It's a load of rubbish. The amount of energy used to make the batteries causes more pollution than a normal car and in the end I can't see that extra fuel saved ever paying off a Prius. It's slow, ugly and just....ugh. Screw the hybrid, go buy a Peugeot 308 diesel instead (you get better mileage out of one than a Prius, and that's a fact).
__________________
|
|
2010-01-15, 08:55 | Link #5408 | |
Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
|
Quote:
The quick response of the government in that regard did help to alleviate the symptoms of the recession, but Australia's ability to escape it with minimal damage compared to others is due to Australia's banks not being nearly as exposed to bad loans as other banks. |
|
2010-01-15, 09:05 | Link #5409 | |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2010-01-15, 09:17 | Link #5410 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
Quote:
Conventional wisdom of investment and economics dictate the "divide and conquer" strategy of not putting all your money in just the baracat game, bet some on poker or the slot machines too so you won't lose everything in just one game. This is just Economics and Finance actually. Quite simple in the basic idea to understand and apply IMO. If you want something more general and agreed, you can always agree with the typical American ignorance comment, but that isn't really applicable considered how majority of the human race aren't interested in the business of others.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-15, 16:45 | Link #5411 |
The AnimeSuki Pet kitten
IT Support
|
I do have to say, I think karma will strike us in the form of another yearly heatwave. The economy will be fine. No matter how many businesses go up, or how many people lose their job security, eventually it'll all work out, and the Australian Dollar will be back to, like, 75c American.
__________________
|
2010-01-15, 23:53 | Link #5412 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
|
Quote:
Bio-Meat Nectar anyone?
__________________
|
|
2010-01-16, 02:09 | Link #5413 | |
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2006
|
^ My first thought too. But this part made me raise an eyebrow:
Quote:
Personally I think the Star Trek food replicator would be a better technology to aspire to anyway.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-16, 02:29 | Link #5414 |
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Wouldn't food growing in a controlled environment (rather than all the randomness found in the natural world) be less likely to carry strange viruses?
And really, if people are hungry enough, they'll eat anything. And if they're British, they'll cook some really disgusting stuff for no discernable reason. |
2010-01-16, 02:40 | Link #5415 | |
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2006
|
Quote:
And yes, after seeing some international cuisines I'd have to agree with your last statement.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-16, 08:28 | Link #5416 | ||
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
2010-01-16, 08:45 | Link #5417 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
From my analysis, I don't think it would really work out as a whole.
The reasons why people buy organic food, or even naturally grown/bred meat is because of the texture and taste. What you feed the creatures will turn out in the quality of their flesh, similar to how human muscles grow and adapt due to physical training. If meat growing is going to take place as a form of mass production, it would relegate natural meat as a "gourmet flesh" and thus, creating another form of branding. The implications of this is great as it drives the prices of natural meat up, and when special occasions call, natural meat becomes overvalued due to the reduced demand on normal days as compared to lab-meat. Secondly, the meat is grown from stem cells, which are hard to harvest as it is highly perishable. Combined with the instigated morphology the scientists have done to make it grow into meat, the research costs will surely go up as growing meat is the same as having a child, environmental conditions have to be maintained. Furthermore, coupled with the profit motives of marketing and selling such a meat, as well as to allay the fears of such meat being bad quality and such, how much is it going to cost? And even if they are going to buy over natural pastures to turn into laboratories, how much is the cost of the meat going to skyrocket to? On a small note, Muslims and Jews don't eat pork. The success rate of such experiments could be better if they tried using chicken stem cells, but since genetic engineering is most advanced in the field of humans and pigs are the closest as poultry mammals, it is not surprised that it swung of in that way. Quote:
1. Pig organs soup, namely soups of pig brains with ginger, or pig heart with gingko nuts, or pig intestines with dates and ginger. 2. Turtle soup, in which the turtle is boiled with double-boiled herbs. 3. Frog soup with the frog legs tangled with watercress 4. Tubifex worm porridge. High in protein.
__________________
|
|
2010-01-16, 09:10 | Link #5418 | |||||
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
Besides, what you've cited is merely a possibility, depending on a number of factors, such as "how close to real meat can they make it" and "how cheap can they make it". Also note, for now, their ambition is sausage and maybe minced meat. That's a far cry from replacing everything. Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||||
2010-01-16, 10:35 | Link #5419 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 41
|
UN orders doctors to leave Haiti quake victims
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2010-01-16, 11:41 | Link #5420 | |||||
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
Quote:
Minced meat and sausages comes from cutting the size of large chunks of meat into smaller sizes, so if they can make small chunks of meat equivalent to minced ones, why not larger chunks in properly controlled environments? This is what will replace natural meat. Then again, it might not be possible. My next explanation will answer that. Quote:
In an incubator, stem cells are to be bred in small and limited numbers. So, I SERIOUSLY doubt that they can produce much with little money. Quote:
Quote:
I have no bloody idea why do they think like this despite in the middle of nowhere when the alternative source of food is the nearest tree bark boiled in the water from the bottle. Quote:
I don't think it is feasible to build a large vat due to scientific and harvesting problems, and building many small vats is neither as cost or space effective. We have housing problems, eviction notices, security, staffing, monitoring, etc etc. Why don't these scientists use their talents to breed a catgirl instead?
__________________
|
|||||
Tags |
current affairs, discussion, international |
|
|