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The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze di
by MPSimmons 6y ago
The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.
- kleer001 6y agoPasta foam? Sounds like it would fall apart. What's it made of? How would you cook it? Sounds like AeroGel. Does it have aerospace applications?
- kibwen 6y agoExtrusion is soooo 2032. Here in 2045 we direct nanobots to assemble our 3D-fractal pasta to atomic precision. Look for it under the brand name FractalDente™.
- afandian 6y agoNot much progress has been made on precise cooking instructions though. The more accurately the cooking time is measured, the longer it takes.
- Wistar 6y agoAsympastote.
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- joezydeco 6y agoMandelbrotini™
- m463 6y agoDo we still throw it against the wall to see when it's done? Or will it make the wall collapse to a point?
- dunefox 6y agoIt's done when it travels back in time exactly 13 seconds.
- powvans 6y agoKlein bottle shaped pastas can be constructed and blur the distinction between extruded noodles and filled pastas. Getting hungry thinking about it.
- jeffrallen 6y agoPaging @CliffStoll on aisle Klein.
- mapt 6y ago> Klein bottle shaped pastas can be constructed Can they though? At scale? With what mechanism? Slightly damp glutinous starch isn't as great a material as you might imagine.
- bigmattystyles 6y agoSounds like you could sell it as an NFT!
- iancmceachern 6y agoAnd ravioli/tortellini are no longer filled, but grown whole.
- usrusr 6y agoNot by 2045, at least not likely. The theory that for every thing you might want to manufacture, an infinite universe must contain a planet where it grows naturally is older than most people on hn, but I doubt that we'll find planet Raviolon that soon. How would you even start a serious SETP Project without a smelloscope? (scheduled for y3k)
- enjeyw 6y ago> How would you even start a serious SETP Project without a smelloscope? Obviously by using for the characteristic emission spectra of sodium, associated with pasta cooked in well-salted water. Unless of course you're looking for naturally uncooked pasta.
- Shared404 6y agoWelp, time to go read the Myst series again.
- mbg721 6y agoThe most popular pasta meme, "Il Spaghettio", currently holds three of the Internet's 8000 congressional seats, and instances of it are commonly made from synthetic cruelty-free wheat, mainly for the purpose of worship.
- _jal 6y agoIn 2054, multiple scandals erupted over influence from at least two clandestine NFT-holding polls. Improper influence led to reforms starting with RFC 451323, which first described the Memetic Transparency Protocol.
- hedora 6y agoOf course, the FSM holds the other 7997 seats, due to the rise of post-apocalyptic religious zealotry, combined with the use of directed microwave energy to systematically purge the old guard. They said I was crazy when I stocked my panic room with 3d print stock (steel, of course) and emp-hardened colander designs. FOOLS! Who’s crazy now?
- paranoidrobot 6y agoCruelty-free wheat makes me wonder what the normal stuff tastes like. This whole thread is sounding like a Better Off Ted episode[1] [1] https://youtu.be/HnXfLGcENnI https://youtu.be/HnXfLGcENnI
- yellowapple 6y agoThat show was too good for this world. The Veridian Dynamics commercials were just perfect: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4e37QsJNuE https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4e37QsJNuE
- geoduck14 6y agoSo you are joking... but 3d printing allows us to manufacture new and different parts because 3d printing is ADDITIVE and "milling" is REDUCTIVE (removing?). There is one technique where you have gell filled with aluminum particles. You then use lasers to heat up specific areas. It melts/fuses the aluminum and burns off the gell. In the end you have cast aluminum in any shape that is as hard as if you had milled it from a solid block.
- volume 6y agoMaybe we'll have custom 3d printed pasta that matches your tooth alignment to fully max out toothability. It will be called "protesi" - Italian for "dentures".
- terramex 6y ago> "milling" is REDUCTIVE (removing?) FYI, the word you are looking for is "subtractive" https://formlabs.com/eu/blog/additive-manufacturing-vs-subtractive-manufacturing/ https://formlabs.com/eu/blog/additive-manufacturing-vs-subtr...
- geoduck14 6y agoThanks!
- fisherjeff 6y agoNot usually a sci-fi fan but this is a plot line I can get behind
- adverbly 6y agos/pasta/battery/g
- marcodiego 6y agoNothing even close to jovian french fries: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/12/scienceshot-french-fries-jupiter https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/12/scienceshot-french-f...
- jahewson 6y agoPresumably GPT-23 was put in charge of the world economy and told to maximise the utilization of open sauce.
- jeffrallen 6y agoGreat pasta transformer.
- bombela 6y agoIn 2045, 3% of the world population is still using retarded units. The world; perhaps; never changes.
- Scene_Cast2 6y agoIf you swap "pasta" with "keyboards", you'll get 2021 :D Just the other day, I saw a prototype of a maglev-mounted keyboard. Vibration dampening is the trend these days, and going over the top (with questionable objective returns) is rather common.
- gumby 6y agoBut then how could it click?
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- yellowapple 6y agoI'm still waiting for the day the Space Cadet keyboard makes its long-overdue comeback. How am I supposed to use Emacs with a measly three modifier keys?
- baxtr 6y agoI’m expecting to see a website called “this pasta does not exist” anytime soon. It’s a shame that we have such powerful AI (and of course blockchain) tech which hasn’t been applied to pasta yet!
- Scoundreller 6y agoFinally a use for NFTs
- Igelau 6y agoNon Filled Tortellinis?
- gwern 6y agoIn place of pasta, I come with offerings of ramen: https://twitter.com/knjcode/status/1102771002222637056 https://twitter.com/knjcode/status/1102771002222637056
- trhway 6y agoNah! i'll stick to the old and tried - pasta extruded by the black hole event horizon.
- i_have_an_idea 6y agoreplace GDP with electricity and pasta with bitcoin and you'll be pretty close
- nom 6y agoWait until they manage to fabricate Gabriel's Horn [0] pasta, a shape with finite volume but infinite surface area. Pour a cup of pasta sauce in there and you are set. Might take an new universe and infinitely thin sauce to do it though. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn
- MPSimmons 6y agoIf you pour a cup of pasta sauce in there, does it just disappear?
- redisman 6y agoI bet some kinda 3D printed dough mesh would be the most saucable shape
- gnicholas 6y ago> 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The remainder of the GDP is spent on crypto-mining.
- Scoundreller 6y agoWe need more minerals!
- mindcrime 6y agoBREAKING NEWS Massive Fire Raging at Pasta Factory in San Bixenino March 20, 2045 A massive fire is raging out of control at the MegaFoodGrpInc Pasta factory on Foodstuffs Avenue this evening. Fire department officials report being hampered by the presence of eldritch inter-dimensional entities, as well as water supply problems related to non-functional fire hydrants in the area. San Bixenino FD spokesbot XJa32l/14 reports that mutual aid has been called in from all over California, and fire-fighting operations are now in a defensive mode. /14 adds "These new exotic materials they are using in foodstuff remodulation today burn longer and hotter than ever before. We've cautioned them about buying supplies from Nyarlathotep before, but they just don't listen." No bot or firefighter injuries have been reported so far.
- xwdv 6y agoThe year is 2083. The state of the art in pasta technology is to use artificial intelligences whose sole purpose is to produce functions that define a pasta’s shape as a function of time to produce variable surface area. Cheap three dimensional pasta is now eaten almost exclusively by basic income households.