h a l f b a k e r yOn the one hand, true. On the other hand, bollocks.
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I read an article saying that the breast and wings of chickens develop as white meat instead of dark meat because those are the least used muscles being that its a flightless bird and those muscles are used for flying. In a zero g environment, after a few hatchings, the theory is that having none of
the muscles exercise for the life of the chicken, eventually you will have a 100% white meat chicken.
Raise them in orbit and we'll deliver them cooked to your door -
Orbital_20toaster
(actually to the net in your backyard) [normzone, May 06 2010]
The opposite
http://jap.physiolo...pdf_extract/23/1/80
Courtesy of [MaxwellBuchanan] [mouseposture, May 06 2010]
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Plus, they'll be able to fly! That should be good for some "we treat our animals humanely" propaganda. |
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Fine, all you have to do is teach a creature with the IQ of a piece of damp carpet how to use a zero-Gee toilet ... |
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What will the eggs be like, we wonder ? |
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//100% white meat// Not enough to justify the expense.
However: if some means could be found to accelerate
microgravity-induced decalcification, perhaps you could raise
*boneless* 100% white meat chickens. |
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Go tell KFC - they will love you. |
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Being a veggie head, I'd prefer an idea for a flying
chicken, with 100 % dark meat, so that it could get
away from the man with the ax. But that's just me. I
can appreciate the other side of the coin though. |
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I like the dark meat. Still, a [+] for creativity. |
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I like the dark meat, and - for altering an animal |
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Fine, [dentworth], why don't you go off somewhere on your own and reproduce asexually ? |
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[blissmiss] Thank you for that wonderful mental image of an
axe-wielding cosmonaut chasing a flying chicken through a
guano-encrusted Mir. |
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fruits, grains, greens, all I need. But I hear you about
the phony protein wannabes. |
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// Not enough to justify the expense. // Unless you're raising and eating the chickens in orbit - then it's possibly cheaper than bringing full-grown chicken carcases up from Earth. |
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// artificial gravity // // raising ... the chickens in orbit // |
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"Artificial anti-gravity" would be energetically demanding. We assumed from the outset that this was aviculture in free-fall. |
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Underwater chickens for cultivating that dark muscle fiber everyone loves. |
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// 50 megatonne orbital mass chicken grill // |
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Go on, post that. You know you want to. |
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Or go the other way - 10G chickens would have enormous legs
(it's been tried). |
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//(it's been tried)//
[MB] Give us a link, you tease! |
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If an egg is cracked by a beak, at that point, does its status jump from egg to chicken in a quantized unit? I am working on a chicken-egg quantized waveform duality theory. |
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Schrodinger's egg. Breaking the shell collapses the wave function and fixes the state of the potential chicken. |
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It's the old Heaviside step function again. |
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Of course, another benefit would be the ease with which the chicken meat could be frozen for transport. Stick it out the airlock, it should stay fresh for ever! |
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I wonder why astronauts don't store their food outside? |
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// it should stay fresh for ever! // |
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No, it won't. The water will slowly sublime away, followed by any other volatile components, and eventually the remains will become totally dessicated. |
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//No, it won't. The water will slowly sublime away// AKA
"freezer burn." However, you could puree the chicken first,
then spray it into a cold vacuum. Viola: freeze-dried
chicken soup. |
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////(it's been tried)//
[MB] Give us a link, you tease!// |
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The only link I have is www.mybookshelfatmyhouse/
Iknowit'sheresomewhere.co.uk |
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The book is called "Great Mambo Chicken and the
Transhuman Condition". Can't remember the author.
Sounds like it should be Beanie Baby but it's not. |
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If I RC, they hatched and raised chickens in a big
(astronaut-testing size) centrifuge. |
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// We assumed / free-fall. //
Quite. The emphasis in my anno ought to be on the "and". |
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I have an inexpensive earthbound solution: Botox |
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<does best Crocodile Dundee>
"That's not free range, THAT's free range." |
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That link is truly a treasure. |
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