Posted on 08/02/2013 8:30:34 PM PDT by Hostage
Funny, eh? Real food is poverty food. Not!
Maybe we’ll be really hungry in my lifetime, the way my grandparents were. We seem to be on the downside of a long-term socio-economic cycle.
It will be easier for us to grow enough food in North Carolina, than for you in Canada!
BUT I bet you don’t end a sentence with a preposition while eating pizza (or when you’re not eating pizza for that matter). Regarding the poor here: if they don’t learn the traditional skills from someone at home, the skills are lost. For whatever reason, if the elders are disinterested or unavailable to teach the younger people, the younger ones operate at a deficit. It’s unfortunate.
So, we’re destroying an entire skill set by handing out welfare like candy?
(One drink away from telling everyone what I really think.)
Hah!!!
I saw it on a t-shirt in the “Catalog Favorites” catalog. Not going to order it, but a tagline is free!
Good night and sweet dreams, Mr. moose!
Thanks! Good night and sweet dreams!
Mebbe....
We order from “Catalog Favorites” a lot. It’s a standard feature of the table on Mrs. Liberty’s side. “Vermont Country Store” is also very good. I get my Ralston cereal there....
:^)
Just to clear up some misconceptions: We have never (we being the denizens of the Undead Thread and the Flying Castle) sent a probe or expedition to Venus. We are currently modifying the spiderbots and the Shuttles for such an expedition, but part of the preparation involves studying the atmospheric circulation patterns on Venus. We’re a bit up in the air about that.
Once that information is correlated, and our plans are deemed safe, we expect to proceed. That would give us occupied locations at the Flying Castle and Habitats A and B, on Mars, and a robot camp on the North Pole of Earth’s Moon.
Venus would add considerable capacity to our numbers, once the floating facilities are tested and built up. The planet has as much area and volume for human occupation as planet Earth itself, if not more. The sky, especially on Venus, is the limit. And it’s a very large limit.
On grilling a mastodon, mammoth, or other large creature, please recall that initially, we barbarians were considering cooking the plesiosaur we collected for that purpose. At least part of our plan went haywire once we realized how long it would take to prepare such a feast, even if we had mouths enough to fill. We simply did not have time.
That’s how we ended up with a plesiosaur happily romping about the Castle moat.
Also, just so everyone is taking proper precautions; recently it was suggested that guns and target practicing were authorized activities. Unfortunately, this is an activity we watch with great scrutiny. While we admire and desire accuracy in those who choose to practice it, we must sternly caution that a space habitat is not a place to take thoughtful precautions lightly. The penalties for abrogation of such precautions are quite severe, by the way. So if you are not particularly good at holding your breath, I would advise that you proceed most cautiously, (and that is also why archery is such a popular sport here!)
Trebuchets are surprisingly challenging in our gravity situation as well.
The trebuchet accident wasn’t my fault!
DC and I could have told you to watch out for Coriolis effects.
Fore and aft direction makes a difference too.
Have to admit that the trebuchet doormat was inspired.
Less traveling salesmen to worry about.
/johnny
Just leave plenty of cooking time. Turkeys, for example, list cooking time by number of pounds.
For a mammoth, you’d certainly want the meat to be cooked thoroughly.
Another consideration is whether you are going to place a camel inside it, and a sheep inside the camel, et cetera.
I could cook a whole 4000lb mammoth (net weight, minus vicera) in less than 24 hours, along with the sides (potato salad, bbq beans, slaw). Would feed about 8000 people.
I'm a professional at large feeding events, courtesy of the US military.
I'll just need to borrow some plates and silver....
Someone would have to bring iced tea.
/johnny
I recommend against the chain saw. You’ll get bone fragments, just as you get wood fragments when cutting timber.
Not sure what the correct procedure might entail. My experience and imagination fail me at times for completely inexplicable reasons.
Besides, to flatten one, all you really have to do is remove the head and cut through the pelvic bone.
Turning a feral pig takes a couple of big boys. I haven't done the calculations on flipping 4000 lbs of mammoth.
It might do to split it down the backbone and have 2 each 2000 lb pieces.
/johnny
That sounds fine and good Johnny, but is it Kosher?
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