Wow, there are a lot of cow analogies that go along with being milked for fat…
Just think though, with the right technology you could go for some type of wristwatch that sucked lipids out of your bloodstream on a slow continous basis.
Just dial the body fat percentage setting you wish to maintain.
Now, right there, we have the next super product. Does anyone know enough about how the needleless injectors work in order to do the reverse, extract lipids and inject the rest back in?
[quote]vroom wrote:
Don’t be so quick to say that the economy cannot change to something else.
It isn’t going to be done just for the hell of it, that is for sure. I certainly can’t be done if there is no large incentive to do so.
You’d be surprised what can be done when it damned well needs to be done. That doesn’t mean it will happen over night, but neither does it mean that it will never happen.
Fricken doomsday naysayers.[/quote]
Absolutely agree. Say what ya want about the USA, but if it came down to it, and we badly needed to, we would all be rolling around in hydrogen cars in no time. Just remember, it wasn’t long ago when people said that a 6 cylinder car engine was an impossibility.
Or how far fetch would it have been if, when we were all kids, that someone would tell you that one day we woul all have a portable device that fits in your pocket that is a phone, a computer, a camera and a walkman, all rolled into one. Those egyptian fucks built that pyramid with nothing. Don’t think the most powerfull nation in the world couldn’t have hydrogen cars if it wanted too. I have already seen a couple hydrogen bus prototypes here in detroit. It can, and will, happen. Its just a matter of time, and I think its alot sooner than the glass empty people think
[quote]Velvet Revolver wrote:
Those egyptian fucks built that pyramid with nothing. [/quote]
Nothing? Well, yes, nothing except a ruler who had absolute dictatorial power, command of huge gold and silver reserves, and about 100,000 slaves to haul limestone from quaries 500 miles from the building site.
Pharaoh Cheops said, “build me a pyramid!” and it was done in twenty years. If President Bush said, “build me a fleet of hydrogen cars!” I wonder how quickly it would be done.
He wouldn’t say it in the first place, of course. His friends in Halliburton would not be amused.
[quote]kroby wrote:
i think we’ve all missed a glaring opportunity right here in our country.
tap into the liposuction phenomenon, drum it all up, refine it at the local refinery and turn that into fuel! it’s got all the necessary ingredients, without the millions of years of fermentation. if you’ve been diagnosed with excess of 25% BF, you gotta go in and get sucked.
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Or, you can render the fat and make soap, after having first strained off the glycerin, added nitric and sulfuric acid, some sawdust…
Actually, there’s a guy in Missouri who has found a way to turn turkey guts into light Texas crude oil. This, I think, has huge potential. Seriously.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Velvet Revolver wrote:
Those egyptian fucks built that pyramid with nothing.
Nothing? Well, yes, nothing except a ruler who had absolute dictatorial power, command of huge gold and silver reserves, and about 100,000 slaves to haul limestone from quaries 500 miles from the building site.
Pharaoh Cheops said, “build me a pyramid!” and it was done in twenty years. If President Bush said, “build me a fleet of hydrogen cars!” I wonder how quickly it would be done.
He wouldn’t say it in the first place, of course. His friends in Halliburton would not be amused.[/quote]
I read a paper in an engineering magazine a few years back that estimated that the pyramids were built with 5,000 to 10,000 workers at a time.
The paper concluded that the work could be done with a crew this size and it is likely they could not feed more people than this.
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I found it very interesting.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
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Actually, there’s a guy in Missouri who has found a way to turn turkey guts into light Texas crude oil. This, I think, has huge potential. Seriously.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
I read a paper in an engineering magazine a few years back that estimated that the pyramids were built with 5,000 to 10,000 workers at a time.
The paper concluded that the work could be done with a crew this size and it is likely they could not feed more people than this.[/quote]
Almost certainly true, Zap, but the operative phrase is at a time. Remember we’re talking about a 20-year timeframe here, with relatively short life expectancies and very harsh working conditions, so there were likely many cycles of 5,000 to 10,000-man crews. In any case, I doubt if many of the original 5 to 10,000 who started construction were around to see the capstone fitted twenty years later.
I did double-check my information, and it appears that the legendary 100,000-man figure is probably an exaggeration, but not much of one.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Almost certainly true, Zap, but the operative phrase is at a time. Remember we’re talking about a 20-year timeframe here, with relatively short life expectancies and very harsh working conditions, so there were likely many cycles of 5,000 to 10,000-man crews. In any case, I doubt if many of the original 5 to 10,000 who started construction were around to see the capstone fitted twenty years later.
I did double-check my information, and it appears that the legendary 100,000-man figure is probably an exaggeration, but not much of one.[/quote]
Oh, don’t get me wrong, hell, the great pyramid was probably one of the most difficult structure human beings ever had to assemble in the history of mankind - however, at the time when it was first concocted, could you imagine the doubt that was cast over this project?
Hydrogen cars - its not a matter of if, but when, and I would say a lot shorter than the 50 yrs most people think. Technology will continue to advance at an unprecented speed. I give it 20 years tops till we start seeing at least the upper 1 percent of the rich population in then.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
I read a paper in an engineering magazine a few years back that estimated that the pyramids were built with 5,000 to 10,000 workers at a time.
The paper concluded that the work could be done with a crew this size and it is likely they could not feed more people than this.
Almost certainly true, Zap, but the operative phrase is at a time. Remember we’re talking about a 20-year timeframe here, with relatively short life expectancies and very harsh working conditions, so there were likely many cycles of 5,000 to 10,000-man crews. In any case, I doubt if many of the original 5 to 10,000 who started construction were around to see the capstone fitted twenty years later.
I did double-check my information, and it appears that the legendary 100,000-man figure is probably an exaggeration, but not much of one.[/quote]
Yeah. I doubt too many of the workers lived to enjoy social security, but I hear the Pharoahs did have a hell of a dental plan.
Yeah. I doubt too many of the workers lived to enjoy social security, but I hear the Pharoahs did have a hell of a dental plan.[/quote]
Yeah, if you don’t mind your brain being pulled out through your nose every once in a while.
Medical science has progressed in leaps and bounds since then. Today we have all manner of highly advanced medical equipment, designed to painlessly and efficiently remove the contents of your bank account.