What stuff was you on when you came up with this revelation?
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I'd just had a cousin burger
A what
It’s called A&W and it’s amazing.
but most importantly, did you inject or snore
Edit: snort, fuck autocorrect
Asleep all night, snoring drugs.
Inject drugs by day, snore by night. All day.
So you kind of miss the obvious long term application in this scenario: buy a totally realistic dildo clone of my penis, buy a clone of my boobs etc. A step beyond just meat but the more realistic application of this technology in the sex world.
I think they'll be eating their favourite onlyfans creators, just not in the way you're suggesting.
And how do you keep that from deteriorating and decaying? It would be meat after all and meat has the nasty property to get really bad in very short time without a living body attached to it keeping it fresh.
Well planned obsolescence is a good thing for the content maker - the customer has to buy it again if they like it. The ultimate DRM?
I feel like that will become illegal pretty quickly.
It's the only true vegan meat - given with consent.
This kind of concept is in Brandon Cronenbergs' film Antiviral
Pretty sure it would be considered cannibalism and made illegal
Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!
Where are the infectious prions coming from if it is lab grown meat? There should be the same risks with any other lab grown meat then, because prions are not something special to only human meat.
I'm pretty sure cannibalism is already legal in the United States. The problem is you can't legally acquire human meat.
Armin Meiwes went vegetarian I just checked.
The problem is though is who tf would wanna do that (eat it)
the same people who bought the bath water, I guess
Maybe someone who understands science way better than me can answer this, but would it be possible to grow a whole human body using the meat growing process? If so, you could buy a sex doll copy of your favourite celebrity.
Currently not. Lab grown meat is a more or less homogeneous mass of muscle fiber. A few years ago we could only make what is essentially minced meat, now we're getting closer to entire steaks. Still far away from growing specific muscle groups, organs, bones and skin.
Damn. Still incredible stuff though.
How about recreating genital tissue?
BONK
(You are aware that lab-grown meat is still meat and not an independent organism, right? It's essentially dead and would rot within hours if kept at room temperature)
I mean i theory we can clone mammals, the problem is it would take a long while for your "buddy" to grow up to a usable size
The problem with cloning would also be that a clone of a human is a human with all rights and limitations, the "buddy" would be a slave.
Not after a lobotomy
Performing a lobotomy to a human sounds highly illegal in itself, but as far as I know are lobotomized humans still humans with all human rights.
Well, that's fair enough, but i think we already abandoned legality of the whole operation at the "growing entire human body" part
I don't think that there is a legal issue with that, as long as only a lifeless body is grown
The problem with a lifeless body is it will quickly decompose, so it has to have basic functions like breathing and blood pumping
No brain but a microcontroller to give the right electric signals to the lungs and heart.
It is a fascinating Gedankenexperiment, very creepy and dark but fascinating
That could work, yes
(Bezos if you ever do this could you give us a cut of the profits? Thans in advance)
Also i think the word you are looking for is thought experiment (unless german was a stylistic choice)
It was a stylistic choice 😎