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A science fiction story about synthetic milk, rather funny and one of my favorites: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v62n06_1959-02_EXciter-LennyS/page/n

• Semiapies 6y ago
  This story was my first thought when I saw the headline.
• dwd 6y ago
  The first thing I thought of was the Cloaca (poop machine) at MONA Hobart which is a functional digestive system. The output is not quite as palatable.
• jbrot 6y ago
  That was a fun read, thanks for sharing! Rather amusing to see how the 1959 story imagines money in 1996—Knox notes each researcher on the moon base costs “90 dollars a day” implying that that is a huge expense.
  • amanaplanacanal 6y ago
    The world was effectively still on a gold standard back then. Wrapping the mind around inflation seems to be innately very hard to do.