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Soylent isn't a "diet" product. Therefore it contains 2400 calories, and doesn't compromise on any macronutrients (fats, protein, carbs) for the sake of creating a "diet" product. If you're looking for existing commercial analogues, it's much closer to Ensure (for example). That said, it's attracted quite a crowd of haters--who, it seems, would like nothing more than for Rhinehart et al. to be repeating mistakes that…
The original wingsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt The original computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine The original steam engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile Just because something similar has been tried before doesn't mean the basics are wrong.
Well, to be picky, no one has made a wing suit that does what the Reichelt hoped to do. The current version just lets you have some fun before you open your parachute. Unless you want to count stuff like hang gliders.
Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/web/20030623234930/http://www.popsci....
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Well, to be picky, no one has made a wing suit that does what the Reichelt hoped to do. The current version just lets you have some fun before you open your parachute. Unless you want to count stuff like hang gliders.
If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big enough to have those low speeds will tear off your arms. Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/…
You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. You could also simply drink tube feed, with or without flavoring. Liquid nutrition is not a new idea in the medical field, and there are numerous medical conditions that can make a person dependent on liquid feeding. Clinical nutritionists are professionall…
I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental stresses, and so on, to only live off Ensure might not be feasible.
You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. You could also simply drink tube feed, with or without flavoring. Liquid nutrition is not a new idea in the medical field, and there are numerous medical conditions that can make a person dependent on liquid feeding. Clinical nutritionists are professionall…
> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental s…
You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. You could also simply drink tube feed, with or without flavoring. Liquid nutrition is not a new idea in the medical field, and there are numerous medical conditions that can make a person dependent on liquid feeding. Clinical nutritionists are professionall…
> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental s…
Still, people have survived poor diets and near-starvation throughout history. If the body was that fussy about nutrition, we'd be extinct.
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> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds. I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental s…
"Metrecal and other similar products were pulled off shelves after the United States government connected 59 deaths to liquid protein products"
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Well, to be picky, no one has made a wing suit that does what the Reichelt hoped to do. The current version just lets you have some fun before you open your parachute. Unless you want to count stuff like hang gliders.
If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big enough to have those low speeds will tear off your arms. Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/…
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If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big enough to have those low speeds will tear off your arms. Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/…
and yet they (somehow) managed to do that anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB-woVjlFY
I think most people would agree with me when I say that doesn't really count. =P