The Liberated Territories wrote:We should breed better humans.
What if the better humans overtake the current humans?
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by The Liberated Territories » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:53 pm
by Thermodolia » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:53 pm
The Liberated Territories wrote:We should breed better humans.
by Thermodolia » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:54 pm
by The Liberated Territories » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:56 pm
by Thermodolia » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:56 pm
by Thermodolia » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:56 pm
by USS Monitor » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:06 am
by USS Monitor » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:07 am
by AiliailiA » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:09 am
Cannot think of a name wrote:"Where's my immortality?" will be the new "Where's my jetpack?"
Maineiacs wrote:"We're going to build a canal, and we're going to make Columbia pay for it!" -- Teddy Roosevelt
Ifreann wrote:That's not a Freudian slip. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
by Narland » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:28 am
Conserative Morality wrote:This sounds like a troll title, I know, but hear me out on this one: should we invest more into breeding supercreatures with unique traits? It didn't take us long to make monstrosities like the adorable pug or the dreadlocked Vizsla. Artificial selection is a helluva drug. We can do all sorts of things - should we be branching out into breeding for more unusual and experimental traits? Or is the horror we currently inflict on domesticated animals bad enough?
by Olthar » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:51 am
by Frank Zipper » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:03 am
by Risottia » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:39 am
Ailiailia wrote:Yeah OK, but not so much as whacky pets but for food and medicine.
The totally brainless meat-animal should be a priority: some "brain" might seem necessary to regulate the animal's hormones and organs, but perhaps that could be done by electronics instead; addressing the ethical concern but also the wastefulness of growing and maintaining brain tissue that isn't later used for human food. In fact all the organs and most of the bones (currently wasted in meat production) could live for twenty or thirty years in which time the "animal" would have produced fifteen or twenty harvests of meat.
Apparently, in India there used to be pig toilets. Yes, that's as disgusting as it sounds: up top there's a toilet, where people piss and shit, and down round the back there are pigs who eat the human waste. This for some reason went out of fashion ... anyway, without completing the cycle by humans eating the pigs who eat the shit, perhaps a supercreature which eats human shit could be developed as a means of disposing of human waste and producing a safe fertilizer and/or biogas for power.
Well I'd move on to discussing 'supercreatures' for medicine or as implants (sybiotes) but I think I grossed myself out.
by AiliailiA » Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:15 am
Risottia wrote:Ailiailia wrote:Yeah OK, but not so much as whacky pets but for food and medicine.
The totally brainless meat-animal should be a priority: some "brain" might seem necessary to regulate the animal's hormones and organs, but perhaps that could be done by electronics instead; addressing the ethical concern but also the wastefulness of growing and maintaining brain tissue that isn't later used for human food. In fact all the organs and most of the bones (currently wasted in meat production) could live for twenty or thirty years in which time the "animal" would have produced fifteen or twenty harvests of meat.
Apparently, in India there used to be pig toilets. Yes, that's as disgusting as it sounds: up top there's a toilet, where people piss and shit, and down round the back there are pigs who eat the human waste. This for some reason went out of fashion ... anyway, without completing the cycle by humans eating the pigs who eat the shit, perhaps a supercreature which eats human shit could be developed as a means of disposing of human waste and producing a safe fertilizer and/or biogas for power.
Well I'd move on to discussing 'supercreatures' for medicine or as implants (sybiotes) but I think I grossed myself out.
Well, bio-engineering anaerobic bacteria to digest liquid waste better is already a thing iirc. Now, if we could build plastic-eating bacteria and release them in the ocean, especially where the gyres concentrate plastics...
Cannot think of a name wrote:"Where's my immortality?" will be the new "Where's my jetpack?"
Maineiacs wrote:"We're going to build a canal, and we're going to make Columbia pay for it!" -- Teddy Roosevelt
Ifreann wrote:That's not a Freudian slip. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
by Gim » Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:02 am
USS Monitor wrote:
Good. If they're actually BETTER, and not some nonsense like "racially pure" or whatever, then the world will be greatly improved when they take over.
by USS Monitor » Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:03 am
by The Knockout Gun Gals » Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:06 am
Conserative Morality wrote:This sounds like a troll title, I know, but hear me out on this one: should we invest more into breeding supercreatures with unique traits? It didn't take us long to make monstrosities like the adorable pug or the dreadlocked Vizsla. Artificial selection is a helluva drug. We can do all sorts of things - should we be branching out into breeding for more unusual and experimental traits? Or is the horror we currently inflict on domesticated animals bad enough?
by The Knockout Gun Gals » Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:10 am
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