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| lamna | Sep 21 2009, 06:02 PM Post #1 |
 
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Exactly what it says on the tin. I wonder how hard it would be to grow a house? |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 23 2010, 11:50 AM Post #61 |
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I think the true benefit of "organic buildings" is flexibility and durability. Probably not something that is made of organism, but more like techonology that is inspired by/mimics it, or has biology incorporated into it. Say there's a storm and a tree falls on your roof. Instead of getting the tree removed and putting a tarp over the whole while you wait for insurance to cough up and get a tradie to come repair it, you just prop it back up and let it heal like a broken leg. Or if a new, better waste disposal is proposed, instead of having to replumb entire citys you just reprogram all the building and let new pipelines grow or some such. |
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| Holben | Apr 23 2010, 03:24 PM Post #62 |
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You woulkd have to wait- years for a whole roof to repair. And what about feeding? 'I'm going to water the roof'. Growing pipelines would also take a long time. And where ere these structures getting their biomass from? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Practically Uninformed | Apr 23 2010, 04:58 PM Post #63 |
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Since these are machines we're talking about, they could probably get their materials from the very ground around them. |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 23 2010, 09:26 PM Post #64 |
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Every house would have its own solar panel array, supplemented with power from the grid. And as far as "feeding" your house goes, think about how much waste a household goes through. Nomnomnom garbage? |
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| Holben | Apr 24 2010, 04:37 AM Post #65 |
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Nnyyyggg.... icky. Faeces aren't too good on the animal growth front due to the shortage of sugars and certain ions. By solar panels, do you mean photosynthetic ones? And why won't the grid kill cells? BZZZZAAAAAPPPP!!! |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 24 2010, 06:46 AM Post #66 |
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Thats what the rest of the household garbage is for. I don't specifically mean photosynthetic, but sure why not. |
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| Holben | Apr 24 2010, 10:38 AM Post #67 |
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Well, photosynthesis wouldn't be too good for making electricty. Unless you can get electricty from glucose somehow. |
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| Pando | Apr 24 2010, 10:39 AM Post #68 |
Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Maybe they can somehow harness the electrons in the Electron Transport System. |
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| Holben | Apr 24 2010, 10:48 AM Post #69 |
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If you can make some alloy wires or something or adapt the nervous system, you could send weak currents around. And you wouldn't have to pay an electricity bill! |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 24 2010, 12:05 PM Post #70 |
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I was more talking about a versatile, programmable computing based systems that mimics the compositional flexibility of living systems |
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| colddigger | Apr 24 2010, 12:12 PM Post #71 |
Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Biotech would probably be mainly used to convert, produce, and dispose of materials... Potential advantages would mainly be about flexibility, bones shift, skin heals, etc. If you sell high energy packets of food that you stick in your biotech then they can probably do these processes fairly quickly. |
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| Pando | Apr 24 2010, 12:13 PM Post #72 |
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Could biotech be used for recycling? |
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| Holben | Apr 24 2010, 12:18 PM Post #73 |
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Yeah, but you can just compost things. |
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| colddigger | Apr 24 2010, 12:24 PM Post #74 |
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Well yeah, but this would be composting with microbes made by people. Maybe make a microbe that feeds specifically on the plutonium byproducts of our fusion powered foofighters? |
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| lamna | Apr 24 2010, 03:36 PM Post #75 |
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I think bacteria that make plastic are in the works. As for recycling, perhaps you could make a large creature with powerful jaws and a strong stomach to grind up waste and separate plastics, paper and food waste from indigestible metals. |
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