| Mako11 | 21 May 2013 1:57 a.m. PST |
No, not 3-D printed miniatures, but 3-D printed food: link Mmmm, sounds delicious! (incredibly thick, heavy, dripping sarcasm, intended) Note, the designer is "agnostic" about what the powdered ingredients, liquids, and oils are derived from. Don't miss the 3-D printed human organs and tissue article, as a related story, at the bottom of the page. Somehow, the movie Soylent Green comes to mind. I'm hoping to be dead and buried(?), long before any of this really catches on in a big way. Of course, the mega-food corporations may have something to say about the disposition of my carcass, once I expire, if this comes to pass. Bon appetit…….. |
| Pete Melvin | 21 May 2013 2:11 a.m. PST |
meh, protein is protein. I'd eat people, most of humanity is a waste of space anyway. |
| Covert Walrus | 21 May 2013 3:31 a.m. PST |
Greenpeace is already financing a practical application of japanese research on converting sewage into edible proteins . . . This is certainly a more efficient use of raw materials such as organic waste from agriculture than other ideas for food. |
| Dynaman8789 | 21 May 2013 4:04 a.m. PST |
Once I'm dead I don't give a rip what they do with the carcass. Besides, if this comes to pass I can honestly tell the people at the funeral to "eat me". (as a pre-recorded message of course) |
| stenicplus | 21 May 2013 4:53 a.m. PST |
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| elsyrsyn | 21 May 2013 6:03 a.m. PST |
Greenpeace is already financing a practical application of japanese research on converting sewage into edible proteins . . . It can be done a lot more easily – humanurehandbook.com Doug |
| Emilio | 21 May 2013 6:08 a.m. PST |
Soylant Green…. Please, no. |
| Martin Rapier | 21 May 2013 6:31 a.m. PST |
Yes, 3D organs would certainly be a good thing. In our attached medical school we are already 3D printing replacement teeth, bone sections etc for maxillofacial stuff. |
| richarDISNEY | 21 May 2013 7:51 a.m. PST |
3-d cheetos and Mountain Dew?
Pass.
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| billthecat | 21 May 2013 9:18 a.m. PST |
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| ordinarybass | 21 May 2013 9:42 a.m. PST |
Who knows if this will work, but this statement seems particularly prescient… "If…
…doesn't sound too appetizing, that's only because you can currently afford the good stuff…
…"I think, and many economists think, that current food systems can't supply 12 billion people sufficiently," says Contractor. "So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food." |
| Mako11 | 21 May 2013 10:42 a.m. PST |
I think people would get a clue, and stop increasing the population, from the 5 – 6 billion we have now, but I guess we aren't as smart as we claim. Heck, even rabbits, which are known to be very prolific, know to stop breeding when their population expands too much. So much for the most intelligent species on the planet. |
| Pijlie | 21 May 2013 11:14 a.m. PST |
Soylent Green is ….. WHAT? |
| Fred Cartwright | 21 May 2013 11:38 a.m. PST |
Mass produced food for the hordes of hungry people. Comes from a sci fi story and a film. The story was by Harry Harrison and was called "Make Room! Make Room!" It was turned into a film starring Charlton Heston some years ago. Soylent Green was produced by the Soylent Corporation and was a high energy plankton wafer and was supposedly better than its predecessors Soylent Red & Yellow. |
BlackWidowPilot  | 21 May 2013 12:01 p.m. PST |
As long as it's Certified Organic, I'm on board! Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net "What's in it?" "Don't ask!" |
| Milites | 21 May 2013 12:13 p.m. PST |
How about 3D edible models? That way you could eat the units you destroyed, and the effect of winning or losing would really hit home! |
| Rod I Robertson | 21 May 2013 12:27 p.m. PST |
With 3-D printed food could we catch a computer virus In our GI tract?
Could you get food poisoning from using the wrong substrate?
Are we just like bacteria if we exist on a protein-based agar?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Rod Robertson. |
| (Major Disaster) | 21 May 2013 1:18 p.m. PST |
@ Pijlie What is Soylent Green? Here's your answer YouTube link |
| Zephyr1 | 21 May 2013 2:45 p.m. PST |
Greenpeace is already financing a practical application of japanese research on converting sewage into edible proteins . . . "Don't eat the Soylent Brown! It's made from  …!" |
| Charlie 12 | 21 May 2013 5:46 p.m. PST |
"Don't miss the 3-D printed human organs and tissue article" Already been done (experimentally). Some years ago a patient received a new kidney that had been 'printed'. |
| War Monkey | 21 May 2013 8:51 p.m. PST |
Don't need no powdered food, or 3D printer when all you need is just add water
and can be made fairly much the same way, they just want a reason to tell their wives why they need a 3D printer |
| republic of tolworth | 22 May 2013 8:55 a.m. PST |
7 Billion people and counting…It's going to ugly guys.
Mind you 50% of all food is wasted so it's all utter madness whichever way up we look at it. I want to be the cold meat slices at my own funeral. |
| Megagente | 30 Aug 2013 11:54 a.m. PST |
It reminded me of Cloud Atlas movie. |
| Formerly 298TYR | 30 Aug 2013 12:15 p.m. PST |
Forget food but the possibilities of 3D printers for modellers and wargamers are both mouth watering and mind blowing as far as I'm concerned ! I can't wait until the technology becomes affordable ! |
| gregmita2 | 30 Aug 2013 10:41 p.m. PST |
People sure have a thing for cannibalism here. :)
We're nowhere near production peaks for food. In fact, food has never been so abundant, and starving countries tend to become that way through politics (hello Comrade Bob!) rather than a true lack of resources. The world population also will not reach 12 billion according to the latest projections. Rapid aging of the population and "inverse pyramids" are going to be our real future demographic problems. |
| Hey You | 02 Sep 2013 1:42 p.m. PST |
YouTube link This thread reminds me that I haven't seen HHGTTG lately. |
