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[dasmo]

Eating bugs is really the best answer. It would be better than soylent green. It’s the next green thing to do is eat bugs. They will just 3D print the bug ooze into different shapes, textures and colours! https://youtu.be/GAK4ZxS4AZ8

Edited by dasmo, 30 July 2022 - 04:15 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

We eat all kinds of animals, not sure bugs are much different.

[Mike K.]

Technically lots of seafood is pretty much bugs.

[dasmo]

Watch her face when she says “it tastes like chicken” and tell me it’s like she is eating lobster…

[Victoria Watcher]

Even the FDA allows a certain amount of insect matter to make its way into our food in safe quantities. 

 

You may not be able to see or taste these tiny bug bits, but rest assured: mealworms, maggots, roaches, and beetles can be found in everyday foods, especially coffee beans, chocolate, and wheat flour.

 

The "worst" offender of the creepy crawly additives is hops (used in beer), which can contain 25,000 bug bits per 100 grams (about two and a half cups). 

 

 

https://www.insider....and wheat flour.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 July 2022 - 04:45 AM.

[dasmo]

Don’t forget about the rat sh*t…

[dasmo]

The future of vertical farming! https://youtu.be/XF19hcXRIWA

[amor de cosmos]

Brenda Case Scheer is a professor of city planning at the University of Utah and the author of The Evolution of Urban Form. She says the linear city being proposed in Saudi Arabia is hardly a unique concept, but it also ignores some basic realities of the way cities take shape.
 
“Most cities aren’t designed. That’s a misnomer to begin with. Most cities grow from a small place to a large place over hundreds of years, and they start because they have a reason to start,” she says. “A city is not something that you just plunk down in the desert somewhere. It’s not a big house, and that’s what this sort of seems like.”
 
Renderings of the Line, designed by the architecture firm Morphosis, show a canyon of plant-lined balconies and building facades crisscrossed by park-like walkways and canals. (One executive working on the project even suggested children in the Line would be able to use those canals to swim to school.)

Scheer is skeptical of much of that vision, particularly the prospect of humans occupying the deep reaches of a city measuring just 650 feet wide.
 
“It’s an extremely dark vision. I mean that both literally and figuratively,” Scheer says. “You can’t have a breath of fresh air, you can’t grow a daisy on your front porch, you can’t even have weeds in the cracks of the sidewalk. It’s like an airport.”
 
*snip*
 
Scheer argues that while there may be technological means to construct this kind of project, it’s unclear why such a project is needed in a world chock-full of functioning cities.
 
“The thing that is interesting here is, well, you won’t have to have a car. But you don’t have to have a car on a Greek island, either, and you don’t have to have a car in the old medinas in Saudi Arabia,” she says. “The only reason to do that is to build a sort of prison for your people and keep them under complete control in darkness. This reveals more about the prince than it does about technology.”

https://www.fastcomp...symbol-of-power

[Mike K.]

Except now the growth of cities is being controlled. We live adjacent to thousands of square kilometres of logged wilderness, but claim we have a land shortage.

[Sparky]

^ Yes but they replant those clear cuts …don’t they?

[Mike K.]

Yes, but I’m sure Mother Nature can spare 250 sq km out of the remaining 31,000 on this island.

[Nparker]

https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk

[dasmo]

“ The Burj Khalifa contributes nothing to Dubai except bragging rights. While the surrounding hotels, malls, and other attractions generate a great deal of income for the local economy, the colossal Burj Khalifa was financed by a massive amount of debt and it is still unknown whether it will ever pay for itself. The situation becomes grimmer when one considers its maintenance costs, especially with its famous Pointless height is not an issue specific to the Burj Khalifa. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitation estimates that 60 percent of all supertall buildings — defined as buildings that are over 300 meters, or 984 feet, in height — would not be supertalls without useless floors and spires added to the top. The council calls this wasteful space “vanity” height. The vainest building in the world by this metric is actually the 1200 foot (366 meter) Bank of America Tower in New York City, which is 36% fluff. ly inefficient sewage system. And the main reason the building is so expensive is its height, which is a completely cosmetic, non-functional feature of the building.”
https://architizer.c...llest-building/