Yep, it's great that we already have that AGI to control with low latency our newly invented unbreakable space mining equipment. Otherwise we'd have to send people along to control and fix things.
We're a lot closer to having AGI than having people on asteroids.
I guess bacon is popular, but the typical quantity eaten is rather low. People eat a few strips, not a plate full. I think the total amount of luncheon meats, ham, hot dogs and sausage is much higher, and those are typically not fried. And not everybody eats their bacon crispy. If you heat it up in the microwave, you get very little nitrosamines.
I tried to find statistics on different kinds of processed meat consumption, but could not find anything decent.
Also, processed foods lack fiber, and you need some in your diet, to help your body control cholesterols.
We have excellent feedback systems in the body to produce exactly the right amount of cholesterol. We don't need fiber for that, but it is important not to disregulate the system by eating crap that we weren't meant to eat.
One of the things needed for proper digestion and absorption of nutrients is enzymes. Lots are available especially in raw foods.
Your body makes its own enzymes. If there are enzymes in the food, our intestines break them down into amino acids before absorption, and the rebuild the amino acids into new enzymes.
Nitrates in processed meat are heavily linked to bowel cancer.
Nope. The is a weak link between bowel cancer and processed meat, which includes all kinds of processing, including drying, canning and salting, not just adding nitrates. As far as I know, there's no clear dose-response test done to point to nitrates as the culprit.
Plus there are tons of confounders. People who eat more processed meat have a worse lifestyle in general. Factors in that lifestyle could easily account for difference in cancer rates.
Poor people eat more processed foods. Poor people die sooner.
In India, it's the wealthier people that can afford more processed foods, and they are the ones getting sick. The poor get low quality food, but at least they aren't overeating.
they'd be feeding rats different types of food and studying their life cycles
Last common ancestor between humans and rats is 75 million years old. Last common ancestor between sheep and whales is only 50 million years old, but nobody would say that we should do nutrition studies on sheep to figure out the best diet for a whale.
Poor argument. Burning plastic at low temperature without sufficient oxygen makes a lot of dirty smoke, but most of that can be prevented in an industrial plant where you can do a much better combustion.
Thus the blacks were concentrated in Africa where they archived pretty well nothing, and the smarter European and North East Asians went on to develop world spanning civilisations.
Africa is a much easier place to survive without good planning and cooperation between different groups.
The problem is that most recycled plastic is a mix of all sorts, including a lot of popular Cl containing plastics that are really nasty to burn.
I'm pretty sure that the job of safely burning plastics, including removing Cl at any point in the chain, is still easier than removing same Cl and turning the rest into a useful liquid fuel.
Most likely it's a practical method to convert subsidies into salaries. Otherwise, the best method would be to just burn the stuff and make electricity or heat.
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We have twenty times more iron and nickel within the first 20 km of the Earth's crust than the whole of 16 Psyche.
Plus we have tons of scrap metal.
I recall reading similar cost arguments about why we couldn't get at lots of the oil that is currently being fracked out of the ground just fine.
With that argument you could also say that we won't have any trouble extracting enough metals from the ground.
Apparently it must be super cheap compared to the price of some methane and oxygen.
I don't know. What's a reasonable price for methane and oxygen on an asteroid ?
Yep, it's great that we already have that AGI to control with low latency our newly invented unbreakable space mining equipment. Otherwise we'd have to send people along to control and fix things.
We're a lot closer to having AGI than having people on asteroids.
I guess bacon is popular, but the typical quantity eaten is rather low. People eat a few strips, not a plate full. I think the total amount of luncheon meats, ham, hot dogs and sausage is much higher, and those are typically not fried. And not everybody eats their bacon crispy. If you heat it up in the microwave, you get very little nitrosamines.
I tried to find statistics on different kinds of processed meat consumption, but could not find anything decent.
Also, processed foods lack fiber, and you need some in your diet, to help your body control cholesterols.
We have excellent feedback systems in the body to produce exactly the right amount of cholesterol. We don't need fiber for that, but it is important not to disregulate the system by eating crap that we weren't meant to eat.
One of the things needed for proper digestion and absorption of nutrients is enzymes. Lots are available especially in raw foods.
Your body makes its own enzymes. If there are enzymes in the food, our intestines break them down into amino acids before absorption, and the rebuild the amino acids into new enzymes.
Nitrates in processed meat are heavily linked to bowel cancer.
Nope. The is a weak link between bowel cancer and processed meat, which includes all kinds of processing, including drying, canning and salting, not just adding nitrates. As far as I know, there's no clear dose-response test done to point to nitrates as the culprit.
Plus there are tons of confounders. People who eat more processed meat have a worse lifestyle in general. Factors in that lifestyle could easily account for difference in cancer rates.
Poor people eat more processed foods. Poor people die sooner.
In India, it's the wealthier people that can afford more processed foods, and they are the ones getting sick. The poor get low quality food, but at least they aren't overeating.
they'd be feeding rats different types of food and studying their life cycles
Last common ancestor between humans and rats is 75 million years old. Last common ancestor between sheep and whales is only 50 million years old, but nobody would say that we should do nutrition studies on sheep to figure out the best diet for a whale.
Nitrosamines can also form without high heat. You'll find them in fermented foods like kimchi, for instance.
Also, most processed meat is not fried either.
50 billion tonnes of iron...
The earth's crust is made of 5% iron. It's cheaper to dig some up here than get it down safely from low earth orbit.
Sooner or later there will be a extinction level event that we will not be able to prevent.
We haven't had one kill us in the last 4 billion years or so. I'll take my chances. Besides, extinction level events are much more likely in space.
once we develop the technology to move off planet
That's a big if. Also, even if we had the technology, we have no place to go. Venus is a joke.
No, the dumbest thing is to move off-earth.
Bad idea to change the name. It's better dilute the Nazi connotations by ordinary use.
Poor argument. Burning plastic at low temperature without sufficient oxygen makes a lot of dirty smoke, but most of that can be prevented in an industrial plant where you can do a much better combustion.
Thus the blacks were concentrated in Africa where they archived pretty well nothing, and the smarter European and North East Asians went on to develop world spanning civilisations.
Africa is a much easier place to survive without good planning and cooperation between different groups.
Couldn't we just mix them with coal and burn them in existing facilities?
One little catch with your plan. How are you going to get subsidies that way ?
The problem is that most recycled plastic is a mix of all sorts, including a lot of popular Cl containing plastics that are really nasty to burn.
I'm pretty sure that the job of safely burning plastics, including removing Cl at any point in the chain, is still easier than removing same Cl and turning the rest into a useful liquid fuel.
Most likely it's a practical method to convert subsidies into salaries. Otherwise, the best method would be to just burn the stuff and make electricity or heat.
If you want to sequester carbon, best first step is to stop digging up coal.
It may cost twice the amount, but it's worth less.
People with some money, but not lots, tend to spend it on local goods and services rather than imported luxuries,
I often see people with some money, but not lots, walk around with an iPhone.
*This is NOT a bad thing UNLESS your entire society chooses this path
It's also a bad thing if nobody wants to do dirty jobs anymore. Who's going to pick up garbage if you can just sit on your ass ?
The point of UBI is to make people happier not have them work more. The problem is that there isn't enough work.
And another problem is that there's not enough money.
Maybe you'll find answers in the paper. Did you try reading it ?