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Growing A House From Meat

Posted by samzenpus on from the delicious-future dept.

baosol writes "From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous Fab Tree Hab comes a new (and somewhat disgusting) way to grow a structure — using animal flesh! The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab. The creator of the concept, Mitchell Joachim, is a futurist with a twist– he says he is actually developing the concept in a lab."

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  1. Perhaps vegetarian has its advantages by CityZen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of meat, what about bioengineering trees to grow into more house-like shapes?

    At least, if the tree dies, you've still got a solid wood structure.

  2. Re:This idea stinks! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you put a nail in the wall, will it bleed? Will the house feel pain?

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.