@AndyD273 That's incredible.

Hello worldbuilding, I think I am here more regularly again

who is the current overlord?

@dot_Sp0T hello also... :)

I don't know who's the current overlord, I think they are shy... ;-)

I'm not even an underlord, how I am supposed to know who the overlord is? also, where is the registration form to become an official worldbuilding lord?

@dot_Sp0T Well it was Cort Ammon first, maybe at some point HDE. Monica took over after the whole HNQ issue. Then I think Glarnak took over, followed by Jon Skeet. We were leaderless for a little while there. The position of overlord seems to be shared by a small group of people who all try to steal it from each other.

I will usurp them all! Down with the robot overlords! Up with the human overlords!

@Green we can see through your lies, robot.

Since we know that you can slap a chicken to cook it, it's time to take it to the next level can you slap smelt bronze?

@Separatrix Where do we know that from?

@Gryphon, reddit, then it went viral.

The principle is simple, all energy is fundamentally vibration. If you hit something hard enough it heats up. How often/fast/hard do you need to slap a chicken to cook it? To which an answer was given (which I can't access from work).

So the next problem is the question of whether a world without fire that's learned to cook food by slapping it, can transition from the stone age to the bronze age.

@Separatrix I'm guessing you have to hit it very hard a lot of times.

@Gryphon, or once, really hard

@Separatrix I feel that's more likely to end up with very small pieces of slightly warm raw chicken.

@Gryphon, I'm pretty sure this only works on a spherical chicken in a vacuum, but the theory is sound (apart from the cooked chicken paste)

@Separatrix I wouldn't really want to hit anything in a vacuum. Mostly because it involves me in a vacuum, which is not a place I want to be in.

I have a feeling that if you imparted the same amount of energy into a chicken that it takes to cook it all in one instant, it would no longer resemble a chicken

The idea is to vibrate it, not pulp it

The Reddit post, for science.

@Shalvenay ...I am not sure. If I had to guess I'd predict they don't burn hot enough but I really don't know.

@AndyD273 I'd like an extra paragraph at the end explaining the downsides of a slap hitting a chicken at 3700 mph but otherwise that is pretty excellent.

@James Does have some major flaws though... You'd never want to get the chickens internal temp to 400f. 165f is perfectly cooked. And starting out from frozen is just dumb.

Also frozen chicken is a lot harder on the hand

The math in this answer seems much more sound

even more if it's really frozen, state change consume a lot of energy

it dosn't take the same amount of energy to hot water from 10°C to 15, than from 95°C to 100

@Feeds I want one

@bilbo_pingouin huhu :)

@JohnLocke this is.. very confusing

@Gryphon not after I've perfected my deep fake text generators. Then you won't know up from down.

@AndyD273 There are rocket humidifiers, but the mist seems to come out the top of those. Sure, having the mist aimed up into the air instead of onto the table is better for humidity and for your table, but it takes away from the realism.

I know... Maybe some kind of tube that sends it down toward the table, but then has a J to aim it up from there... I'm thinking I'm going to have to see about 3D printing something at some point in the future

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCK-Cmus_mouse

Super mice

@Mephistopheles I want to introduce one to my cat and see what happens.

@AndyD273 Maybe just have it emit mist from the sides like a rocket before launch. dailybreeze.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2017/201707/…

@JohnLocke I thought about that too. That would be an acceptable compromise I suppose

@AndyD273 It's probably more realistic seeing as how the rocket isn't actually lifting off

@JohnLocke Also more realistic, as that is an unrealistic amount of vapor in that image. we have a few of those sonic humidifiers where you can see the water vapor, and they don't put out anywhere near that much

Or you could have it build up a lot of pressure and then use the pressure to launch itself into the air, shooting out mist behind it.

Like a bottle rocket

Yo

@AndyD273 Right but if we crank it up to 11 we could turn your house into that one scene from Jumanji.

@James Maybe with some dry ice

Hmm, I wonder if voltage would make a difference

@Mephistopheles According to the page on PEPCK-C, the mice would also get diabetes. "PEPCK-C catalyzes an irreversible step of gluconeogenesis, the process whereby glucose is synthesized. The enzyme has therefore been thought to be essential in glucose homeostasis, as evidenced by laboratory mice that contracted diabetes mellitus type 2 as a result of the overexpression of PEPCK-C"

Ima just gonna go

@TheMattbat999 But the conversation is just getting interesting!

@JohnLocke I have no engineering experience

But i will stay in case my untrained input is needed

@TheMattbat999 Neither do I, we're talking about humidifiers

@JohnLocke lol.

and GMOs

Shows how much i know.

Heck i would just boil water.

@TheMattbat999 Dude, I don't hardly know how to spell sicence let alone enjineering. I just come up with cool ideas and then make other people figure out how to execute.

@JohnLocke Also, very aggressive.

@James nice. I am a programmer by trade.

crickets chirping

Reading down the page, it's like, "oh, this could be a fun CRISPR project; increased muscle, stamina, life length, reproductive potential... all sound great! Eat twice as much, well, that's not the worst thing... Increased aggression... Well, that's not good..."

@TheMattbat999 Programmer here too.

@AndyD273 Diabetes is even worse

@James That's what the Laboratory is for, the Factory Floor is for the people who don't know any MHD

@AndyD273 nice. I mainly focus on Video Game Development and Design.

@JohnLocke Yeah, that one kind of messes it up for me

If i had anyone else to help me, i would leave the art and audio junk to people who can do it better than i

@TheMattbat999 Ah, office and web programming here

Game design sounds fun, but I don't have the time

@AndyD273 If you're age is at least one digit, it's too late for you anyway

at the moment

@AndyD273 hmmm... yeah I have been working on one game for over a year. It is freeroam RPG tho

So those take a while

@JohnLocke For now, until they figure out how to use a retrovirus or something for in vivo edits

@AndyD273 That doesn't sound like a bad idea, if the viruses can somehow reproduce without killing the cell. But then you might infect others, and give them the mutation

And if everyone's super... Then no one will be.

Except for people in remote areas who have little contact with other people

@TheMattbat999 RPGs seem like they would take a long time to program because of all the game elements involved, stats, and story possibilities.

@JohnLocke exactly. I got alot done by myself tho. Combat system, enemy spawning and AI, NPCs, and game world are all practically complete. Gotta add more quests tho... only got the main story and some side quests.

@JohnLocke Fun book along those lines is Seize the Night by Dean Koontz. It was written before CRISPR, but a has virus that carries genes between species.

@AndyD273 Carries genes how? It gives genes from one organism to another?

@JohnLocke Yeah, species to species, humans to animals to humans

It's suspense/light horror

@JohnLocke And gotta do some small stuff like finishing the Enchantment system, adding more enemies that the 14 i got, and adding more misc. items for varied loot and alchemy

@AndyD273 I feel like that would just result in a lot of cancer

Another one about CRISPR and in vivo edits is Change Agent by Daniel Suarez, which was pretty good.

@TheMattbat999 Sounds cool

@JohnLocke yep. Here is a pic of the first town:

@JohnLocke Probably a bit, but in the story at least you had stuff like people with animal eye shine and heightened aggression, a troop of intelligent escaped monkeys, human level intelligence dogs and cats, etc

@AndyD273 I think that would be pretty hard to do, because everything is controlled by multiple different genes

Oh, whoops, the first book was Fear Nothing

@TheMattbat999 Wow, that's awesome. I was thinking of a 2d, pixel-y game.

I haven't played too many RPGs if you haven't noticed

@JohnLocke Probably. It was written in 1997, and is more horror than Scifi, so mostly aiming for "science based" rather than "hard science"

I guess that's suspension of disbelief.

3d pixel-y game with daylight cycle @JohnLocke

Um i changed the compass after this screenshot...

@TheMattbat999 Still, that's way more than I could do.

@JohnLocke Sure. I'm not a geneticist, so for me it's mostly a "well, that sounds plausible, so why not!"

With those mice, I wonder if they might be able to find the genes for the aggression and diabetes. Then they'd only have to find the genes for the whatever side effects those ones cause.

@JohnLocke thank you. The year before development me and another user on game dev sat down and planned out the magic system and how races should work

@AndyD273 It looks like a cause and effect. Increasing the enzyme= anger issues and diabetes. It might be possible to fix the diabetes, but maybe not, because you're already messing with the sugar regulation.

@JohnLocke true, but you also could adjust how insulin is processed, or other things

For the aggression maybe adjust serotonin?

Never mind, I think that's for something else

We need MORE CRISPR! HAhahaAHahAHahAHaha

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