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Dave watches pots boil so you don’t have to.
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Shockingly, they’ve stumbled across a halfway decent idea. I think this is mentioned in Revelations somewhere…
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“I said, “If someone asks a question, and it’s a good question, I’m going to dance.””
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Something to consider the next time I teach modern physics…
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Basically, it boils down to the producers saying “What these people need is a modern-day American teenage honky.”
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PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat – New York Times
Shockingly, they’ve stumbled across a halfway decent idea. I think this is mentioned in Revelations somewhere…
You know, I saw that too, but I’m not sure they’ve thought the whole thing out.
On the one hand, if the stuff existed and really tasted like a good steak, or chicken, or whatever, at a comparable price, I’d probably buy it. On the same hand, the energy footprint for vatmeat is probably far lower than actual meat and would allow a whole lot more people to move up the chain to Western standards of nutrition. So basically, I’m for it. At the very least, I could see using it for ground beef, etc, in stews or chili.
On the other hand, do cows and chickens, not to mention turkeys, have what it takes to survive in the wild, once the profit motive for ranching them disappears?
1) Like many of us kids fresh out of philosophy grad school, I sent off a total of 99 job applications this year.
2) Today I accepted one of those jobs.
3) This will give me plenty of time to focus on research
4) My salary is going to multiply by something like 4 or 5. My plan is to live on half of it, save a quarter, and spend the rest on a variety of bold schemes to promote the good of humanity.
A) Research? Aristotle was ~350 BC, this is 2008. Is philosophy as gormless as string theory?
B) One relishes the kid philosophizing about taxation, insurance, compound interest on debt… and tenure process, ah, inequities.
C) Humanity deserves to be flogged rather than carried about upon a palanquin of others’ Officially confiscated productivity. We aren’t passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are crew. March or die.