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Well for one, a rate limiting factor is gestation period which is proportionally long for elephants. You’d probably be better off farming Homo sapiens or maybe
by adolph 2y ago
Well for one, a rate limiting factor is gestation period which is proportionally long for elephants.
You’d probably be better off farming Homo sapiens or maybe reviving some other species of homo. Put them in gestational pods to harvest their metabolic heat energy. Maybe run mental simulations of various things via neural link.
https://www.bbcearth.com/news/elephant-gestation-period-longer-than-any-living-mammal https://www.bbcearth.com/news/elephant-gestation-period-long...
- throwaway48540 2y ago"Better off" doesn't mean much. We would be better off doing neither of these, but being better off is not the goal - the goal is to eat an elephant or a mammoth. Seems like the gestation period would make it more of a luxury.
- adolph 2y agoLike the mammoth, other species of homo disappeared when sapiens arrived. Like the cousin comment’s conjecture that mammoth might be very good eating, maybe these other species were likewise delectable.
- throwaway48540 2y agoSure, if that is so, then it might be an option too. Though I have never heard about that, while children are singing campfire songs about mammoths... Marketing matters - "Eat a prehistoric human" doesn't sound as cool as "taste the food of the prehistoric human"
- anon84873628 2y agoYou need to have seen the film "The Matrix" to get the joke.
- throwaway48540 2y agoOh I got that part of a joke, but that doesn't mean I don't want to continue discussing :)