Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help
, started by SantosLHalper on May 14th 2014 at 1:49:19 AM
Sorcerer in training
"This is actually based on a real-life experiment; Dr. Alexis Carrel, an early-20th-century biologist, kept a culture of cells from an embryonic chicken heart alive for over 20 years. Unfortunately, after Carrel passed away, the culture was destroyed for unknown reasons, and nobody has been able to replicate the experiment since."
Removing this as Trivia. It's fun, but doesn't help in explaining how the example uses the trope.
And something else; the guy was feeding the chicken culture with, among other things, fresh egg whites from unpasteurized eggs, some of which were quite possibly fertilized. Look it up; the whole thing is quite fascinating.
Edited by 97.113.194.164 Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
There is no Planet B
Thread Mode. Please put it back with correct Example Indentation.
- Word of God states that the only food affordable to most people on Earth in Avatar is spirulina. Waitaminute, then where did they get the coffee and the scrambled eggs from?
- That's pretty obvious — they grow it there on Pandora. After all, in a setting where the uncurable-on-Pandora medical cases are euthanized in place, they surely won't ship the food from the Earth. And having an automated chicken farm and a couple of greenhouses isn't all that expensive.
- Possibly, but the trope still applies on Pandora. In the extended version, there is a scene in which Grace is forcing Jake to eat some food they have at the mobile station, and Jake mentions how at least he knows what he is eating when he is with the Na'vi.
- That's pretty obvious — they grow it there on Pandora. After all, in a setting where the uncurable-on-Pandora medical cases are euthanized in place, they surely won't ship the food from the Earth. And having an automated chicken farm and a couple of greenhouses isn't all that expensive.
PaperMaster
This was originally known as Soylent Soy and was renamed in this thread.
Leaving this up in search of that "artificial food is dangerous" link. Mother Nature Is A Bitch.
Modern science has discovered that you need all these unpleasant things attacking your body, lest your immune system goes into an overdrive out of boredom, and gives you asthma, rheumatism, allergies and a whole host of other (most of them singularly unpleasant) autoimmune diseases. That discovery needs a link to That Other Wiki, which should be added to the description of Life Will Kill You.
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Lord High Engineer
Why is Space Opera considered a harder sci-fi genre? To be sure, some Space Operas could be considered hard sci-fi, but the majority of them? No.
The secret to flying is to throw yourself at the ground...and miss.
Grin and tonic
I'm wondering if cave fungus belongs in the article. It's bland (or bad tasting)and acts as the main food source for a group of people living in a large cave.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Needs Help
, started by animeg3282 on Mar 18th 2012 at 3:10:43 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman