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Growing A House From Meat
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."
I don't even want to write a long intelligent response to this. I just want to say WTF over and over again.
From TFA:
For fenestration, or openings of windows and doors, he envisions sphincter muscles that can open and close
Nothing like coming home from work to squeeze your way into a clenched asshole.
There's no place like Hormel
AT&ROFLMAO
Either that or Rot. I find it hard to believe they've synthesized a high-protein cell that can beat cellulose for structural strength and permanence.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
...looks to be well done.
I think ideally the structure would have a fur coat exterior or some sort of hide. Otherwise the bare meat would get infected. Still you'd have trouble with things like fleas. How would the structure fend off mosquitoes and other parasites? Might prove to be a maintenance nightmare.
BTM
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Join my new organization, P.E.T.H. People for the Ethical Treatment of Houses!
"Remember when I said I would never lie? Well, that was the first time."
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.
Well, the real problems start when the house figures out how to feet itself, and discovers that there are great sources of proteine and fat directly inside it. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
If you put a nail in the wall, will it bleed? Will the house feel pain?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
that was the first thing i thought when i saw this during his TED talk. "godamn it we are not the zerg, take your meat house and get the hell off my lawn" what is worse is the fact that he tacked this meat house onto this talk about growing homes from trees that are guided into the shapes we need, so your house is a living plant, *and he tried to make the meat house sound like a better idea than the tree house*
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
A house can be condemned because it does not meat building code.