http://wdr1.com/blog/2004/09/26/soylent-green/ Screams in the Night Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:44:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://wdr1.com/blog/2004/09/26/soylent-green/#comment-208 khayman Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:23:22 +0000 http://wdr1.com/blog/2004/09/26/soylent-green/#comment-208 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. 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.

]]> http://wdr1.com/blog/2004/09/26/soylent-green/#comment-207 brandon Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:05:50 +0000 http://wdr1.com/blog/2004/09/26/soylent-green/#comment-207 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. 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.

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