Rectal Death Adept posted:

that satellite balloon being a platform for a broad scale EMP would do a lot to curb emissions

OIL PANIC posted:

• the thing i love most is that this article that explains how 60% of wild coffee species are soon going to be wiped out, and that cc is quickly spreading conditions favorable for coffee rust, ends with the takeaway 'don't fear change'

SniperWoreConverse posted:

i was p surprised to find out there were like 10+ coffee spp vs the 2 kinds you know about, some of which have better or more interesting flavors than regular coffee but grow specifically in certain tropical rainforests or some poo poo i don't remember.

lollontee posted:

genemod material is capital of the future, as the planet dies

quote:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/03/19/179340/a-stealthy-de-extinction-startup/amp/

The company, provisionally named Ark Corporation, is being cofounded by stem-cell pioneer Robert Lanza and Harvard Medical School DNA expert George Church.

I heard about the startup last Friday at TEDx DeExtinction, a gathering of conservationists and molecular biologists interested in bringing wooly mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, and other extinct species back to life (see “An Unlikely Plan to Revive the Passenger Pigeon”).

It’s interesting stuff. Who wouldn’t want to see a saber-toothed tiger?

But here’s the deal: the very same biotechnologies needed to reanimate lost species are going to have far, far greater financial and social impact when they’re applied to commercial breeding of livestock, pets, and even humans.

“There are just so many downstream implications,” says Lanza, who is chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology, a stem cell company.

Ark, he says, hopes to help revive some extinct species, including a Spanish mountain goat. But the company’s real aim is to combine cutting-edge cell biology and genome engineering in order to breed livestock and maybe even create DNA-altered pets that live much longer than usual. “Imagine a dog that lives 20 years,” he says.

quote:

https://colossal.com/company/

PREHISTORY HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. BRINGING IT BACK TO LIFE THROUGH BIOSCIENCE HASN’T.
At Colossal Biosciences, we endeavor to jumpstart nature’s ancestral heartbeat. To see the Woolly Mammoth thunder upon the tundra once again. To advance the economies of biology and nutrition. To make humanity more human. And to reawaken the lost wilds of Earth. So we, and our planet, can breathe easier.

These things, which were not achievable before, are now. In our laboratories. Through our breakthroughs in CRISPR and genetic engineering.

We are leading the new charge of bioscience. We accept the responsibility. And we can see the light at the end of it all.

Real hurthling! posted:

synthetic caffeine is easily derived from urea so just save up your piss and order the appropriate acid in bulk to transform it into that sweet sweet energy

Trabisnikof posted:

Yup, two “exciting” corporations to follow with certainly not evil company names are:

Ark Corporation:

and


Colossal Biosciences

mawarannahr posted:

environmentalists are mentally ill carelords, study finds

Trait anxiety predicts pro-environmental values and climate change action, Personality and Individual Differences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112101.

God Hole posted:

I'm remembering a sequence in Blood Meridian where the Glanton gang whips up an emergency batch of gunpowder using piss

is there anything piss can't do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria#Woad_and_indigo posted:

A method for producing blue dye from woad is described in The History of Woad and the Medieval Woad Vat (1998) ISBN 0-9534133-0-6.[38] In France, woad was treated with human urine, by a profession known as pisseurs, who would drink large quantities of beer to provide a sufficient supply. [39]

God Hole posted:

I'm remembering a sequence in Blood Meridian where the Glanton gang whips up an emergency batch of gunpowder using piss

is there anything piss can't do?

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

no

Colonel Cancer posted:

automation took the noble career of pisseur from us.

Microplastics posted:

Some of us still carry the torch.

quote:

In France, woad was treated with human urine, by a profession known as pisseurs, who would drink large quantities of beer to provide a sufficient supply. [39]

Microplastics posted:

Oh poo poo I was supposed to add acid?

Trabisnikof posted:

some dumb puff piece posted:

who wouldn't want to see a saber tooth tiger?

Microplastics posted:

Some of us still carry the torch.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Did they at least fill it with car batteries first?

Koirhor posted:

Dystopia Barbarian posted:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/western-states-that-rely-on-colorado-river-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-cutting-consumption

biceps crimes posted:

celebrating human numbers going down is malthusian. it is ecofascist. we could have literally infinite numbers of people if we built sustainable, walkable cities that are dense. Look at all of that unoccupied land in the western US. If we built up cities as dense as NYC, you could have so many bodies living in that space, instead of being wastefully spent on wilderness. Where does the food come from for feeding all of those people you ask? Well, you import it!

CODChimera posted:

can you even imagine trying to get people to take a second pandemic seriously

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I think I have too many microplastics in my brain but why is recycling a scam again

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I think I have too many microplastics in my brain but why is recycling a scam again

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I think I have too many microplastics in my brain but why is recycling a scam again

Koirhor posted:

penn and teller had a whole episode of bullshit about that like 15 years ago

Trainee PornStar posted:

I only check this thread for the good news, which I am a bit disappointed by the lack of....

My take is that we're a bit hosed.