• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Would’ve been interesting if the whale blubber they were harvesting in the second movie cured cancer instead of being some luxury, “it makes you look young” juice.

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      11 months ago

      It makes it more accurate though for them to kill a multiton animal for an ounce of proteins

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      Anything organic like would be more efficient to synthesize after it’s discovery. If the writers said it can’t be synthesized, it would just be the writers pushing a false dichotomy. Very few things can’t be synthesized and the things that can’t, are harvested responsibly, like horseshoe crab blood.

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        The problem with sci-fi is that it comes with its own solutions. A responsible society would engineer a brainless whale it could grown in tanks back home.

        The problem comes when the usual culprits of capitalism (e.g. top-down management, the unyielding greed of shareholders for quick profits, decisions made based on limited information and no ingenuity) stop us from invoking a working solution.

        Competition between companies is supposed to fuel innovation and non-evil production, but mostly it promotes anti-competitive practices.

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        But then it’s not natural! If I’m a future space billionaire, of course I’d want the real stuff with animal suffering involved, duh.

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          Normally, I’m against fraud, but if I could make a businesses of selling fake Rhino Horn Dick medicine to showoff millionaires, I would.

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            Just fill some mason jars with some sort of powder (maybe plaster?) put a picture of a rhino on it and sell each one for $500.

            Edit: Maybe small vials full of ground-up fingernail would be more “realistic”?

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      You would think that, with their technology, they would be able to grow the material in a lab. Would probably be cheaper too.