Animals as Chemical Factories
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Animals as Chemical Factories
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#3Make EColi Productive Again
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#4Cell-free synthesis is the next step. Theres slow progress, but very interesting operational models if it works.
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#5Yet another instance of how people view the biosphere as a resource to be exploited for their own monetary profit and short-term benefit. That type of logic and thinking is a dead end. I've never had a silk robe and I doubt I would be any better off if I did have one. I'd much prefer clean air, water, and unpoisoned land for growing nutritious food.
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#6Humans as chemical and organ factories.
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#7Yet another instance of how people view the biosphere as a resource to be exploited for their own monetary profit and short-term benefit. That type of logic and thinking is a dead end. I've never had a silk robe and I doubt I would be any better off if I did have one. I'd much prefer clean air, water, and unpoisoned land for growing nutritious food.
we use people as machines to move stuff around and make new stuff. humans are the only creatures that have to pay to live on this planet, if they don't pay, they can't have food/shelter/etc.
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#8Yet another instance of how people view the biosphere as a resource to be exploited for their own monetary profit and short-term benefit. That type of logic and thinking is a dead end. I've never had a silk robe and I doubt I would be any better off if I did have one. I'd much prefer clean air, water, and unpoisoned land for growing nutritious food.
Well said, friend. That is an important aspect of the Way. We must be gentle with our mother Earth in order to compassionately harmonize with future generations' happiness.
But what I really, really want is hemp clothing. When I was in Atlanta in the 90s, there was a hemp shop, where I bought the best jeans, shorts, and hats I've ever had. They got nothing but more comfortable over time, breathed excellently and never molded (not that I tried). I could imagine that they would've lasted my lifetime, or even more.
Sadly, they shrunk terribly over time, and by that I mean I "grew" out of them :-)
Now, all I've seen on the net are 60%-40% cotton blends, IIRC, not the 100% hemp that was available back then. It doesn't look like the new cannabis acceptance here in America has produced hemp cloth, but I could be wrong. I imagine that growers are more focused on the likely more lucrative drug version of the plant. That said, it's been years since I searched the net for sellers, but my daughter has the skills and the 503a to make me a sweet kilt and jumpsuit and long-sleeve long-hanging shirt, should the funds come through.
"Hemp for victory!" --WWII American poster slogan
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#9Humans also consume more meat than required to stay alive ...
(Before anyone starts to make moral statements)
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#10> Today, companies such as Twist Bioscience can synthesize DNA for about $0.07 per base.
Marburg (what about Ebola?) has only ~20k bp, so ... about USD 3k to synthesise?