Soylent Green
While out for lunch with Sang on Friday, Sang was telling about the
book version of Alive.
My impression from the movie was that they ate as little of the people as
possible and only after a relatively long time. Not so, it appears. On
the 3rd day discussions had begun and by the end of the first week it
was chow city. The started eat pieces that where hard to know what
they were (e.g., the butt and so on), but eventually go to eating the
hearts & lungs, to finally cracking open heads.
Naturally, you have to wonder how they cut up the meat, how it was
prepared, etc. which we discussed for a while. Nothing really to
think much of, until when reading Brandon’s Blog it appears he was
hainvg a similiar
discussion some 20 miles away in West LA. (Abliet, slightly
different. Whereas our was about how to eat people, their’s
was about whom to eat.)
Anyway, Cubs lost again, damnit. In a very Casey-at-Bat moment, Alou
struck out with bases loaded. Actually, at least Casey takes a swing
in the poem. Alou was caught looking. Just hope the Dodgers win.
September 26th, 2004 at 3:05 pm
What is interesting about the Alive artic cold scenario versus my desert island scenario
is that in the cold, spoilage of meat is not a concern. This makes some of the calculations easier. You could in theory just go ahead and immediately kill everyone not on your team then freeze them, taking comfort in the fact that they won’t spoil. It becomes more complicated when the herd has to remain alive to stay fresh.
September 27th, 2004 at 9:23 am
Continuing on Brandon’s train of thought above…the planning becomes particularly complicated and risky when you factor in the fact that the whole point of killing people off for food is because of a lack of food in the first place. This means that you must take care to plan very carefully when to cull out people and whom based not only on nutritional value and ease of kill, but also factor in the existing food supply that is keeping them nutritional in the first place. If you just let some of them starve they aren’t likely to be nearly as beneficial to you. On the other hand, too much fattening could exhaust the feed supply early and cause a crisis. Not that I’ve really given this much thought.