Comments on: Miscellany: Your lab fees at work. http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/ As honest as a gambling man can be Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:00:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Neil MacFarlane http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44197 Neil MacFarlane Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:09:00 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44197 Finally, a method of disposing of my corpse that combines my religious fanatacism regarding jerky with my life-long desire to be shattered via series of sonic bursts. If they can work donair sauce into this somehow, perhaps via a supercollider that hurls the viscous delight into an alternate timeline where I am brought to join them via the sonic bursts or something, then I might be set to off myself tomorrow. Finally, a method of disposing of my corpse that combines my religious fanatacism regarding jerky with my life-long desire to be shattered via series of sonic bursts. If they can work donair sauce into this somehow, perhaps via a supercollider that hurls the viscous delight into an alternate timeline where I am brought to join them via the sonic bursts or something, then I might be set to off myself tomorrow.

]]> By: Mr. McLaren http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44196 Mr. McLaren Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:45:15 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44196 Sadly, no. The closest they get is this: <img src="http://www.promessa.se/img/promession-steg3.png"/> Sadly, no.

The closest they get is this:

]]> By: dietsch http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44195 dietsch Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:40:11 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44195 Please tell me there's a video of the sonic-shattering widget at work. Please tell me there’s a video of the sonic-shattering widget at work.

]]> By: Mr. McLaren http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44194 Mr. McLaren Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:46:28 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44194 Well, the process includes a step where they remove both surgical metal artifacts (since we'll all have bionic hips, etc) and accumulated heavy metals (since we're all slowly dying of mercury poisoning, etc), and can potentially include a disinfection step (although one wonders what kind of contagion could survive free-drying and sonic shattering), so it seems fair to assume that what's left is essentially protein powder, which could probably be pelletized into fish food. They actually talk about a grave site for the corn starch coffin, and the notion of planting something on it, which can quickly uptake nutrients from the decomposing coffin and powder, but I still think there's a scale problem there. With limited space, and geometrically rising population, we can't be eternally reserving land for dead people. Doesn't scale. We need to get over our attachment to the body as an artifact, and to the notion that respect for the dead has anything to do with respect for the corpse, or the place where we buried it. So fish food is a good option. Or fertilizer. I'll stop short of speculating about the uses of protein powders in human foodstuffs. Well, the process includes a step where they remove both surgical metal artifacts (since we’ll all have bionic hips, etc) and accumulated heavy metals (since we’re all slowly dying of mercury poisoning, etc), and can potentially include a disinfection step (although one wonders what kind of contagion could survive free-drying and sonic shattering), so it seems fair to assume that what’s left is essentially protein powder, which could probably be pelletized into fish food.

They actually talk about a grave site for the corn starch coffin, and the notion of planting something on it, which can quickly uptake nutrients from the decomposing coffin and powder, but I still think there’s a scale problem there. With limited space, and geometrically rising population, we can’t be eternally reserving land for dead people. Doesn’t scale. We need to get over our attachment to the body as an artifact, and to the notion that respect for the dead has anything to do with respect for the corpse, or the place where we buried it.

So fish food is a good option. Or fertilizer.

I’ll stop short of speculating about the uses of protein powders in human foodstuffs.

]]> By: will shetterly http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44190 will shetterly Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:15:51 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2007/09/06/miscellany-your-lab-fees-at-work/#comment-44190 Would your freeze-dried self make good fish food? 'Cause that would be even better than having your ashes dumped in the ocean. Would your freeze-dried self make good fish food? ‘Cause that would be even better than having your ashes dumped in the ocean.

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