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That's like saying making a star go supernova is a great way to generate energy for an advanced civilization — there are some huge leaps in logic in making swee
by michaelpinto 16y ago
That's like saying making a star go supernova is a great way to generate energy for an advanced civilization — there are some huge leaps in logic in making sweeping assumptions of that scale. It would be like someone in the Victorian era predicting that we'll farm whales for their oil...
- hugh3 16y agoIt would be like someone in the Victorian era predicting that we'll farm whales for their oil... That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. Would it be possible to keep whales alive on land indefinitely?
- michaelpinto 16y agoThey won't be actual whales — we'll use their genetics "or something like that"
- fractallyte 16y agoNo need to keep them on land. Arthur C Clarke's novel 'The Deep Range' had whales being kept in herds, like dairy cows, for their milk. Not implausible at all!
- gcb 16y agoDidn't they do exactly that at the time?
- wmf 16y agoThey hunted whales, but "farm" implies some kind of active breeding.