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> You don't "bootstrap" your yeast culture and your grain culture - you get them from some source. Wait, what? It is super simple to bootstrap your own yeast c
by irrational 5y ago
> You don't "bootstrap" your yeast culture and your grain culture - you get them from some source.
Wait, what? It is super simple to bootstrap your own yeast culture. You just need wheat, water, and time. You can easily grow your own wheat. The only way this is not bootstrapping is if I need to create my own water out of hydrogen and oxygen and my own wheat by… actually I’m not sure how one would bootstrap wheat. Find some of the original wild plants that served as the original source of our current domesticated wheat and re-domesticate it? But that would literally be impossible, thus making the term bootstrap meaningless in this case.
- 8note 5y agoHow are you growing this wheat? Making the seeds out of clay or something?
- irrational 5y agoGrowing from seed. I think growing your own wheat from seed can be considered bootstrapping since it is impossible that anyone could go back to the original wild plants and re-domesticate back to having wheat like we do now. Certainly not within a single person's lifetime. So, I say that growing from seed is realistically the closest we can come to bootstrapping it.