Gerioke Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,850 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/19/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1911 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Charlton Heston. "Soilent Green is people! It's PEOPLE!" Peace, Dave <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But it tastes like chicken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthitjah Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 28, 2005 Everything tastes like Chicken. They actually have Chicken flavored candy sticks at the 7/11's around here. HMMM???? Maybe it's Soilent Green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerioke Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,850 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/19/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1911 Share Posted April 28, 2005 If everything tastes like chicken, what does chicken taste like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthitjah Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 28, 2005 HMMM??? Well maybe it really tastes like Human? It must be some grand conspiracy? Big Brother is watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 4_HIS_GLORY Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 oh my word are you serious?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted April 28, 2005 I have a humorus story. In Organic Chemistry lecture we started going over carbohydrates. When we got to cellulose (the stuff in plant cell walls), our instructor mentioned how humans can't digest cellulose, and we talked of that a bit. Then he asked if we thought it possible to bioengineer the ability to digest cellulose in humans? Would it work? I first said it wouldn't because if you notice the animals who can digest cellulose do so through a second stomach, it's bacteria that actually breaks down the cellulose, and the animal regurgitates and re-chews the bacterially-digested food. How many people would want that? Another student argued that if we were given the gene the bacteria use, then that wouldn't be neccessary and thus possible. But then the instructor asked if such would be a good thing or a bad thing? The good, of course, being that we wouldn't have a food shortage anymore. If you're hungry you can just go outside a graze! The bad though would be the waste product of cellulose digestion - CH4 - otherwise known as methane gas! Now that gas has to get out somehow, one end or the other! And what effect would the extra methane in the atmosphere do? But what if you could collect the methane you produce and use it to power your car? (See how humorous these analytical discussions can get?) But going back to the bioengineering, my question then was would it interfere with our ability to eat meat - after all, none of the animals that can digest cellulose are likewise capable of eating meat. So, then the instructor thought about what if we tested this on a lion and made the lion eat grass? Well, what effect would that have on the food chain if now the lions are competing with the other animals for grass? One of the other students suggested you then bioengineer the deer to eat meat, so then you have the deer hunting the lions. We were all over the place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthitjah Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 28, 2005 S L I P P E R Y S L O P E HMM??? Man Eating Deer? It would make Hunting more interesting? I do enjoy a challenge. Then again? There would be a Hundred times more of them critter's out here in MD to worry about hitting with my car. Know what if you made the Deer man eating? Wouldn't you have to give the Rabbits Saber Teeth? Peace, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted April 28, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted April 28, 2005 So that's where that killer rabbit came from! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricH Posted April 29, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 366 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,933 Content Per Day: 1.57 Reputation: 212 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/21/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 29, 2005 BAAAAAAAAAHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerioke Posted April 29, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,850 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/19/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1911 Share Posted April 29, 2005 There was that one episode of the original star trek where the grass was acidic and burned the feet of the crew. What if grass became carniverous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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