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The Meat Printer

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Mon, 2010-09-20 21:47

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The Meat Printer

root@The Meat Printer [hr] Recent technology reverse engineered from the Meat Hab has allowed the research team at Somatek to begin industrial scale manufacture of meat. The process involves using a small nanohive that prints off cellular scaffolding in a 3D equivalent of a roll-to-roll printer, runs the scaffolding length through a near-vacuum deposition chamber with a small surface charge to attract floating stem cells bathed in whatever chemical/hormonal signal triggers muscle growth, and then finally runs the meat-tube through a nutrient rich aerated fluid where it incubates and grows for a few days. The resulting meat tube is sectioned into five ton segments, pierced and flash frozen by exposure to liquid nitrogen. Somatek ships this meat product all across the inner system, where it is used in the manufacture of many fine food products for the clanking masses.

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Tue, 2010-09-21 04:48

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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Sounds like how you would do it. Although in vitro meat has probably been a staple for generations by now, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat So maybe it is the other way around: Meathab is reverse engineered from Somatek.

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Tue, 2010-09-21 10:07

root

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root@The Meat Printer [hr]

Arenamontanus wrote:
Sounds like how you would do it. Although in vitro meat has probably been a staple for generations by now, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat So maybe it is the other way around: Meathab is reverse engineered from Somatek.

Neat. I figured the current cutting edge in tissue engineering would have this figured out by now, but for some reason academic discussions of in vitro meat don't have quite the same visceral impact as the mental image of a factory spooling out a gigantic meat tube in space. I also thought the same manufacturing process for brain meats might be contraindicated by the TITANs and the Exsurgent virus.

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Tue, 2010-09-21 12:18

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

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root wrote:
I also thought the same manufacturing process for brain meats might be contraindicated by the TITANs and the Exsurgent virus.

Hmm... a disgruntled employee at NutriSys Inc. seeds a tank with the wrong kind of tissue. It grows into several cubic meters of random brain tissue. While not dangerous on its own, when it catches the exsurgent virus from somewhere it suddenly turns into a massive async danger. Imagine Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"... in space... directed by David Cronenberg: "It is a sound, a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds. You scarcely noticed it at first-it sunk into your consciousness, a vague disturbance, a trouble." "To Jurgis this man's whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body was madness to him - it set every nerve of him a-tremble, it aroused all the demon in his soul." Soylent green is people! Iä! Iä! Long live the new flesh! I used vat-brains for something different in a series of earlier campaigns. Syntronics were people who had cultured cortex living outside their bodies in tanks, connected using wireless communications to give them enhanced intelligence and skills. See http://www.aleph.se/Dragons3/Humanities.pdf (scroll down a bit) for a writeup. In this particular setting there was an entire culture of finance people, researchers and especially mathematicians in lunar orbit using this to think really broad and well. I can really see this happening in Eclipse Phase too.

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Tue, 2010-09-21 15:47

Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture

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Hmm... a disgruntled employee at NutriSys Inc. seeds a tank with the wrong kind of tissue. It grows into several cubic meters of random brain tissue.

Oh, brains are very edible in several human cultures from Europe to Asian.

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While not dangerous on its own, when it catches the exsurgent virus from somewhere it suddenly turns into a massive async danger.

So what happens if people eat it? You can get infected with prions by eating brains, I wonder if you could with exsurgent virus. Although it makes a new quality of pulp-horror adventure in EP setting :D On the concept of Meat printed meat and replicated one-the true meat, born and rised will probably be always seen as more tasty and valuable.

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I used vat-brains for something different in a series of earlier campaigns. Syntronics were people who had cultured cortex living outside their bodies in tanks, connected using wireless communications to give them enhanced intelligence and skills. See http://www.aleph.se/Dragons3/Humanities.pdf (scroll down a bit) for a writeup. In this particular setting there was an entire culture of finance people, researchers and especially mathematicians in lunar orbit using this to think really broad and well. I can really see this happening in Eclipse Phase too.

The more I actually read into EP, and design various scenarios, the more it seems that having a stable human version of stationary location has more disadvantages than being decentralised, swiching bodies for bodies, or leaving physical space alltogether. Fom the purely economical point of view, continued existance of humanity isn't worth the investment. Thus EP brings a moral dilemma, the characters if they want to preserve the humanity, need to limit its growth.

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Tue, 2010-09-21 21:22

Thunderwave Thunderwave's picture

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Arenamontanus wrote:
root wrote:
I also thought the same manufacturing process for brain meats might be contraindicated by the TITANs and the Exsurgent virus.
Hmm... a disgruntled employee at NutriSys Inc. seeds a tank with the wrong kind of tissue. It grows into several cubic meters of random brain tissue. While not dangerous on its own, when it catches the exsurgent virus from somewhere it suddenly turns into a massive async danger.

Mother Brain! Now all we need are some Space Pirates...

Tue, 2010-09-21 21:46

root

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root@The Meat Printer [hr]

Thunderwave wrote:
Arenamontanus wrote:
root wrote:
I also thought the same manufacturing process for brain meats might be contraindicated by the TITANs and the Exsurgent virus.
Hmm... a disgruntled employee at NutriSys Inc. seeds a tank with the wrong kind of tissue. It grows into several cubic meters of random brain tissue. While not dangerous on its own, when it catches the exsurgent virus from somewhere it suddenly turns into a massive async danger.
Mother Brain! Now all we need are some Space Pirates...

"I... am Tetsuo."

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Wed, 2010-09-22 00:11

icekatze

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hi hi But is it kosher?

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