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Catogrande

Mightily impressive but owes more to gymnastics than ballet.

Chris B.

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Mightily impressive but owes more to gymnastics than ballet.
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Yeah - it's the circus not the ballet company! This girl wasn't good enough to get in the ballet...

Catogrande

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Yeah - it's the circus not the ballet company! This girl wasn't good enough to get in the ballet...
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 Do'h! I missed that slight hint!

Tim

gollum

as the boat race is on -

Tim

Matt Berry is a great man.
 
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Tim

The King of Bavaria. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/jDWXJ0J.jpg" alt="jDWXJ0J.jpg"> 
Dr. Erik Brandenburg. 
OHHHHHHHH YEAH 
OOH OOH OWW OWW

red terror

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/alex-rodriguez-is-one-homer-closer-to-costing-the-yanke-1696957749'>Alex Rodriguez Is One Homer Closer To Costing The Yankees $6 Million</a>
 
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/yankees-still-pretending-alex-rodriguezs-milestone-isnt-1697581526'>Yankees Still Pretending Alex Rodriguez's Milestone Isn't A Milestone</a>

mariner4life

This whole A-Rod v The Yankees (and baseball I guess really) is equal parts fascinating and disgusting. He's got some balls on him A-Rod, considering what he is holding out for given what he has just been through. No one likes the Yankees, but I bet there most people are sympathetic to their cause here.
 
That said, I am not sure if you can just pretend something isn't a milestone just be not calling it that. Good luck with that fight. Who the fuck takes their employer to court in the middle of their contract, and (I assume) intends to stay there afterwards. Baseball is a strange sport.

Stockcar86

That was a pretty amazing game a couple of days ago - 19 innings over 7 hours. I watched the last 3 hours worth of it, and I think both Yankees and Red Sox were both down to their last pitchers, both looking really stuffed by the end.

taniwharugby

Probably not awesome, more in the WTF file...I mean why not try bacon first, seriously!! 
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432645&ref=rss'>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432645&ref=rss</a>
 
An heir of one of the world's richest families is banking on 3D "printing" of meat as the next big industry of the future.
Justin Rockefeller, a great-great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, is "a relatively small investor" in New York-based Modern Meadow, which has created a "steak chip" by growing animal tissues in a laboratory and then using a 3D printer to build up layers of meat into the size of a potato chip.
"I have eaten a steak chip," Mr Rockefeller said in Auckland, where he will speak at a Philanthropy NZ conference today. "It tasted like a salty steak chip. It was delicious."
The technology is still in its early stages. Modern Meadow co-founder Andras Forgacs has said that it costs thousands of dollars to make one pound (0.45kg) of meat.
But he says the cost will come down dramatically when production ramps up in factories that he likens to micro-breweries, multiplying meat cells taken from a cow or a sheep in much the same way that brewers ferment a biological source such as barley to make beer.
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The time scale for artificial meat would be "in the order of decades", Mr Rockefeller said. Modern Meadow is starting with artificial leather on the theory that it will be easier to get people to buy car-seats or handbags made of artificial leather than to start eating artificial meat.
"Meat will probably come after that," he said.
"Every major idea seems crazy at first. Even mobile telephones used to look like giant bricks and cost $5000 each in the early 90s, but visionary people imagined a world in which every single person on the planet has one of these mobile devices and they fit in your pocket."
Mr Forgacs and his father, University of Missouri Professor Gabor Forgacs, have already founded another company, Organovo, which has multiplied human cells and then used 3D printing to create tissues of human kidneys and other organs, initially for testing new medicines. It is valued on the New York Stock Exchange at US$379 million ($507 million).
Modern Meadow is still privately owned but was valued last year at US$60 million ($80 million).
"I would put this in the category of high-risk, high-return, high-impact," Mr Rockefeller said.
He has co-founded a non-profit body called The Impact for investors who pledge to use their money to generate both a financial return and a social impact. He helped persuade the family-owned Rockefeller Brothers Fund to stop investing in fossil fuel industries last year - despite the fact that the family fortune comes from oil.
"We embrace the irony," he said.
Instead, he sees Modern Meadow as both a good financial bet and having a huge positive social impact if it can reduce global warming. Livestock account for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
However, Otago University scientist Dr Tim Woodfield, who leads a team using 3D printing to develop human tissue implants, said it was not clear how Modern Meadow could multiply living cells without using animal products, because most tissues were grown in media such as blood serum.
"I have met Gabor Forgacs," he said. "The research community is somewhat sceptical, but it's very difficult to know what sort of basis this comes from."
Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Scott Champion said synthetic meat was still a long way from reality.
"Consumers are telling us naturalness of product is very important to them," he said.
Geoff Simmons of Gareth Morgan's Morgan Foundation said he would bet on NZ scientists finding ways to reduce methane emissions from livestock long before 3D printing of meat became viable.
- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/'>NZ Herald</a>

Tim

I already have a self regulating, self reproducing meat machine. It runs on the cheapest substrate around, high cellulose content and everything. You don't even need to process the feedstock with enzymes before bioconversion. 
It's a fucking cow.

taniwharugby

gollum

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I already have a self regulating, self reproducing meat machine. It runs on the cheapest substrate around, high cellulose content and everything. You don't even need to process the feedstock with enzymes before bioconversion. 
It's a fucking cow.
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When I lived on a farm we had a stack of eating cows (actually steers), some milking cows. And a fucking cow we kept behind the house.
 
The key was not to mix them up.

red terror

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How did Aaron Hernandez not fail NFL drug tests?
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He was just found GUILTY on all charges in his murder trial. He'll now have to go to trial for the murder of two other guys. It's not often you find mega-million-dollar athletes who moonlight as serial killers.
 
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Chris B.

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I already have a self regulating, self reproducing meat machine. It runs on the cheapest substrate around, high cellulose content and everything. You don't even need to process the feedstock with enzymes before bioconversion. 
It's a fucking cow.
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Yeah - there's a lot of biotech shit goes on to replicate what trees do, as well.
 
Mind you - if you've actually got that cow in a paddock behind your house (as opposed to a theoretical cow), I bet she likes you and comes hastening up to give you a lick and thank you for feeding her - "Gosh, thanks Tim - you're really a great guy - feeding me all this stuff and looking after me. Did I mention what a great guy you are...." 
 
You murderous fluffybunny!

red terror

This woman is hardcore.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/16/reading-arsenal-fa-cup-semi-final?CMP=share_btn_tw'>Meet the 93-year-old Reading fan whose dislike of Arsenal dates to the 1920s</a>
 
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Crucial

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Mind you - if you've actually got that cow in a paddock behind your house (as opposed to a theoretical cow), I bet she likes you and comes hastening up to give you a lick and thank you for feeding her - "Gosh, thanks Tim - you're really a great guy - feeding me all this stuff and looking after me. Did I mention what a great guy you are...." 
 
 
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I'm more curious as to the reaction of Gollum's cow when he gets home.

mariner4life

how do you say "is it in yet?" in cow?

Crucial

I met a pommy bloke once whose surname was 'Cockin'. His rugby team gave him the name 'Isme'

The Silver Fern

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