May 24, 2013
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Hungry?!
I’m wrapping my head around 3D printing technology advancement with the NASA-funded research into ‘printing food.’ A company is currently working on a 3D pizza printer for astronauts to use in outer space. And when that is achieved, printing food off the computer could potentially end world hunger and save humanity from dying out much sooner when Earth’s resources have been fully utilised…Okay, I was wrong to use the word save, because nothing will save humanity on Earth, unless everyone on the planet migrates to another planet altogether. But it can prevent world hunger when Earth’s edible resources have diminished and for example a disease might spread across cattle and chickens and we won’t have meat so we can rely on technology. As for the food in the cartridges, it would apparently consist of a combination of powdered macro nutrients, carbs, insects, algae, seeds…. Which can last up to 30 years or so.. All the essential basics required for us to sustain life just a little longer. The people of the distant (and doomed) future will have a different perception of food… It will be about functionality not taste… Unless something helps make insects taste good lol
Pizza Anyone?
Comments (6)
Weird.
Pills like the Jetsons, right? Have you heard that the Japanese have researched into recycling sewage to do this? Reusing the left over nutrients and such. Sounds disgusting but at least it does its intended purposes.
that is so weird and unnatural. I bet I sound like those people who feared television when it first came out.
@buddy71 - @Erika_Steele -google it! I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it too…lol
@KenxanderDaGr8 -
@KenxanderDaGr8 - Eeeew!
Some insects do taste good. I have had ants that were sweet and grubs that tasted like popcorn. This reminds me of the replicator on “star trek”. I guess now it isn’t so much science fiction as science fact.