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Old 07-14-2012, 07:22 AM
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Food Shortage Solution

Solving the future food shortage problem:

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A growing number of optimistic soothsayers say yes. But only if we expand our definition of livestock to include such underutilized food sources as mealworms, grasshoppers, and Sago grubs. In January 2012, 37 international experts met at the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome to discuss “the potential benefits of using insects for food and feed as part of a broader strategy to achieve global food security.”
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/13/eating-bugs

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Old 07-14-2012, 10:00 AM
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Yumm. Chapulines. I'd eat those provided tequila and beer were provided to wash them down.
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Old 07-14-2012, 02:05 PM
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Pass the ketchup, please.

Will we still have broccoli?
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Old 07-15-2012, 05:54 AM
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Pass the ketchup, please.

Will we still have broccoli?
Here's a wallpaper of Romanesco Broccoli. It is notable as a great example of a fractal in nature. The spirals follow a Fibonacci sequence. The second picture captures some pigeons spaced according to the Fibonacci sequence. The interger sequence is (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...) and is generated by starting with 0, 1 and then extending the sequence by adding the last last two. It shows up everywhere in nature. Anyway, thought of broccoli and thought of this.



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Old 07-15-2012, 08:55 AM
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Here's a wallpaper of Romanesco Broccoli. It is notable as a great example of a fractal in nature. The spirals follow a Fibonacci sequence. The second picture captures some pigeons spaced according to the Fibonacci sequence. The interger sequence is (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...) and is generated by starting with 0, 1 and then extending the sequence by adding the last last two. It shows up everywhere in nature. Anyway, thought of broccoli and thought of this.
Whatcha smoking there, bh???
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Old 07-15-2012, 10:26 AM
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Whatcha smoking there, bh???
What ever it is he needs to share!

Going all fractal I'm gonna lean towards DMT
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Old 07-15-2012, 10:33 AM
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They do that on purpose. Can't trust them pigeons! No sirree Bob!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Pakistan.html

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Old 07-15-2012, 10:37 AM
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Are all the people in that area nuts?
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The Pidgeons know something we don't. You can see it in their eyes. One day, when the time is right, just before the Mothership arrives...................
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Old 07-15-2012, 12:25 PM
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The Pidgeons know something we don't. You can see it in their eyes. One day, when the time is right, just before the Mothership arrives...................
I know, right? So, you've figured that out too! Pigeons are definitely the advance scouts of an alien civilization and it's beginning to look like that civilization is from the planet Kolob! Pretty soon, guys! Pretty soon!

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