[ExI] will raise bugs for food

Fri Aug 6 17:00:17 UTC 2010

--- On Fri, 8/6/10, darren shawn greer <dgreer_68 at hotmail.com> wrote:

Strangely enough, I had the larva for this beast on the side of my house last week. My friend's kids pointed it out and were freaking...

Examine please: why were they freaking?  If they saw an unfamiliar bird, would they freak?  If they saw some odd unidentifiable soft warm furry beast, would they freak?  If that warm furry beast had eyes that focus forward, like a dog or a human, would they freak more than if the eyes were on either side of the head, like a horse or a rabbit?  So why did they freak at the unusual bug?  These were kids, so they likely hadn't studied up on poisonous bugs, which are rare.

Check this:

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2010/08/06/natures-horror-show-ugly-creatures/?test=faces#slide=1

Why does this fall into the category of ugly beasts?  It makes my mouth water just looking at all that meat.

What do you think of when you see this guy:

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2010/08/06/natures-horror-show-ugly-creatures/?test=faces#slide=2

I think suuuuuushiiiiiii!

For the newer guys, it is an extropian tradition whenever an actual gathering takes place to brutally devour sushi to the brink of utter extinction.  No one demonstrates this better than our own Anders Sandberg, the reigning champion of sushi devouring.  It is truly a sight to behold, in awed admiration.

Slide #2 above is a great example of what we can imagine in future food production technology.  Clearly this beast doesn't waste much energy swimming, as can be seen by her lack of hydrodynamic propulsion appendages, but rather survives by "eating whatever drifts in front of it."  The photo shows some unfortunate beast hanging from the mouth of the blobfish, which makes my point perfectly.  

We could perhaps genetically modify or just find in nature some insect that devours some noxious weed, breed it to absurd numbers, find its mating hormone to call it home, give it a night to have fun and lay eggs, then collect the remainders to process and feed to the blobfish, then pretty soon "...Sandberg, party of twelve, your table is now ready..."

spike

From: darren shawn greer <dgreer_68 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ExI] will raise bugs for food
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 4:30 AM

> Have you ever seen a Regal Moth [1] up close?

Strangely enough, I had the larva for this beast on the side of my house last week. My friend's kids pointed it out and were freaking. It was bright green, seven or eight cms in length, and fat as a good cuban cigar. It also had four red-tipped spikes on its foremost segment. We looked it up on the 'net and decided it was the larva for a regal moth (which I had never heard of until that day.) Coincidence? I think not. I suspect Yahweh wants me to breed them for food.

Darren

"Dumb people do dumb things. Smart people do really dumb things."

-- Anonymous

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> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:24:30 -0400
> From: msd001 at gmail.com
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] will raise bugs for food
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:06 PM, darren shawn greer
> wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7QFfnMYPc
>> Here's a pioneer in the field, though apparently he didn't know much about monarchs. Or maybe it was a very original suicide attempt.
>
> Have you ever seen a Regal Moth [1] up close? One landed on my
> building at work; a coworker asked me to verify if this thing was real
> - see the link below, a moth with a wingspan of 9.5-15.5 cm! Very few
> of the pictures I could find online have any appreciable scale to
> imagine so large a moth. I described it as an orange tarantula with
> wings. The bottom picture on the Wikipedia page gives some scale of
> the larvae in a human hand. So if Spike is looking for a candidate
> source for HPG, it won't take many of these fatties to make a filling
> snack.
>
> [1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citheronia_regalis
> [2] picture with scale:
> http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/2826/ (#7 of 15)
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