Solid, Liquid, Gas

Liquid meals serve a pseudo-medical purpose: to provide nourishment to people who cannot tolerate solid food.  Energy drinks and gels (aka Nutrient Goo) fill a need for endurance athletes.  But in 2013, Soylent was introduced and marketed to people who are simply too busy to prepare and chew food.

As we transition from consumption of solids to liquids, I wonder how long it will be before a "Nutrient Gas " will allow people to breath in their meals. Being already in a gaseous state, will these "meals" facilitate our body's need to fart?

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A Novel Way to Gain Followers

I heard the news today that, “Neuralink, the neurotech startup co-founded by Elon Musk, announced Thursday it has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct its first in-human clinical study.”¹

This technology is meant to “help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using only neural signals. … patients with severe degenerative diseases like ALS could eventually regain their ability to communicate ... by … typing with their minds.”

All I could think was, “He must be desperate to get new followers on Twitter!”

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¹https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-brain-implant-company-134631197.html

Fear Our Autonomous Future

We’re supposed to have faith in self-driving cars. Yet we can’t seem to prevent two trains from colliding.

This is a reference to the March 1 head-on train crash in Greece. According to the BBC and The Guardian, “The passenger train and the freight train were travelling in opposite directions but ended up on the same track”¹ and “The two trains are thought to have travelled along the same track for 2-3km before they met head-on.”²

Maybe the problem with trains is that they’re confined to a limited number of paths (tracks), which increases the chances of a crash. The reason we have so few airplane collisions is only because of how improbable it is that two planes would occupy the same space during most of their flights.

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¹ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64813367

² https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/01/greece-train-crash-deaths-injuries-larissa-collision-derailment