Interestingly, they do not list what the ingredient is to produce
the flavour, other than "natural flavour".
People. It's made of people.
Soylent Green. ;)
On 04-25-20 23:28, August Abolins wrote to Vk3Jed <=-
Soylent Green. ;)
A classic. Over-acting at the big reveal, but still an interesting
vision of voluntary end-of-life as well.
Hi Vk3Jed,
In a message to Poindexter Fortran you wrote:
Interestingly, they do not list what the ingredient is to produce
the flavour, other than "natural flavour".
People. It's made of people.
Soylent Green. ;)
A classic. Over-acting at the big reveal, but still an interesting vision o voluntary end-of-life as well.
..Regards,
August
* SeM. 2.26 * I'm not dead. I'm electroencephelographically challenged.
August Abolins wrote to Vk3Jed <=-
A classic. Over-acting at the big reveal, but still an interesting
vision of voluntary end-of-life as well.
Funny thing how in the early 1970's they predicted we could not prodcue enough food to feed everyone on earht by the early 2000's, however we actually yield 2-3 times the corn, beans and grain we did back then.
Moondog wrote to August Abolins <=-
Funny thing how in the early 1970's they predicted we could not prodcue enough food to feed everyone on earht by the early 2000's, however we actually yield 2-3 times the corn, beans and grain we did back then.
The interstate highway system threw a heavy blow on the railroad
system, yet it's carrying twice it's capacity of goods on half the
number of tracks.
Moondog wrote to August Abolins <=-
Funny thing how in the early 1970's they predicted we could not prodcue enough food to feed everyone on earht by the early 2000's, however we actually yield 2-3 times the corn, beans and grain we did back then. The interstate highway system threw a heavy blow on the railroad system, yet it's carrying twice it's capacity of goods on half the number of tracks.
Scott Adams calls this the Law of Slow-Moving Disasters.
It's the same issue with "peak oil", "climate change", etc. All these "disasters" take generations to fully develop and during that time, things change (usually for the better) to head off the "disaster".
I used to work at GM Powertrain about 20 years ago. The car engines we were developing at that time actually cleaned the air of pollutants. Yes, the gasses that came out of the tail pipe had less pollutants than the air comin in (the tests that we were doing were actually measuring those things).
Now, keep in mind that this was downtown Flint (so the air coming in wasn't very clean) and this is before the Left "moved the goal posts" by declaring a "pollutant".
... You will be the victim of a bizarre joke.
Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-
Futurists also make prediction based on what we know now or what we
think is next. This does not allow for technologies or branches of technologies that did not exist or couldn't have been predicted. It's
all extensions of what we have now. Just because we don't have the slightest answer, that doesn't mean we'll ever have one. Just because
we can possibly do something doesn't necessarily mean we'll go in that direction. I seen an old Modern Mechanix magazine from 1950 predicting life in 2000, and they predicted fax machines and video conferencing as
a means to work from home, however they also believed we'd all live in metal trailers, wear only sythetic materials, and eat our TV dinners on plastic furniute we could easily hose off.
Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-
Futurists also make prediction based on what we know now or what we think is next. This does not allow for technologies or branches of technologies that did not exist or couldn't have been predicted. It's all extensions of what we have now. Just because we don't have the slightest answer, that doesn't mean we'll ever have one. Just because we can possibly do something doesn't necessarily mean we'll go in that direction. I seen an old Modern Mechanix magazine from 1950 predicting life in 2000, and they predicted fax machines and video conferencing as a means to work from home, however they also believed we'd all live in metal trailers, wear only sythetic materials, and eat our TV dinners on plastic furniute we could easily hose off.
Hmmm.. I'm working from home and the idea of eating TV dinners on plastic furnature that I can easily hose off *does* sound like a good idea.
But I don't think my wife will go for it.
... I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.
Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-
Froaen or shelf stable dinners would have to get a whole lot better
before people no longermake meals from scratch
Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-
Froaen or shelf stable dinners would have to get a whole lot better
before people no longermake meals from scratch
Moondog wrote to Dr. What <=-
Froaen or shelf stable dinners would have to get a whole lot better before people no longermake meals from scratch
There was one of those "Your house of the future" films from the 1950s - you know, the one where Dad flies in on an air car or jet pack from his job to be home with his wife and two kids?
They showed the mom asking everyone what they wanted for dinner, pulling four dinners out of the freezer, sliding them into a slotted oven, then fade to a scene of a conveyor belt with chefs wearing toques and whites placing food into those metal trays with tongs, pouring gravy with a ladle, scooping the peas and carrots on, etc...
... Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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