posted by [identity profile] hpet.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 05/01/2010
The talk in the movie about the seas being dead and the later images of corpses floating face down in big tanks, not being chopped up into rashers or ground into sausage but apparently being allowed to decompose always gave me the impression that Soylent green really is made of plankton just like the company claims - corpse-fed plankton.

Assuming they have a whole food chain set up, with corpses at the bottom and plankton at the top, could the corpses be going to fertilize photosynthesising plants such as algae instead of being consumed directly? What effect would that have upon the caloric value of the result?

And what kind of filling does one put in a corpse kiev?

Also, I stumbled across this post looking for a copy of the parody fansub Boku no Sucky Sucky, which you were apparently seeding once upon a time. At a New Year's party the other day a friend was expounding upon its virtues having seen it at a convention many years ago and I told him I'd find a copy using my great ingenuity. Since it has proven a bit too obscure for my ingenuity to produce, I shall instead resort to begging.

Would you be able to furnish us with a copy by any chance?
 
posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 08/01/2010
Corpse kievs contain garlic and butter, just like a chicken kiev, only corpsier.

The fertilisation theory is a good one, but then it doesn't really explain why Green is more tasty and nutritious.

http://bt.elite.uk.com/anime/scandalous_video/boku_no_sucky_sucky_trilogy_-_23_Aug_2004.torrent should still work. If it doesn't, drop me a line. I am usually seeding it, being entirely at ease with shameless self-promotion.
 
posted by [identity profile] hpet.livejournal.com at 03:54pm on 09/01/2010
I assumed they were scraping the bottom of the barrel with Red and Yellow as far as trying to extract energy from a closed system. Which is also why the fears about them 'raising people like cattle' are silly - the only reason they'd use people in the first place is because they've run out of the resources they'd need to raise *anything* like cattle.

Thermodynamics spoils this movie in much the same way Thomas Paine spoils The Return of the King.

I have had that torrent running, and uTorrent 'suspects' there is one seeder, presumably you, but it's not actually connecting to you or downloading.
 
posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 09:40pm on 10/01/2010
OK, leave it running. I bet I've inadvertently firewalled out outside connections.
 
posted by [identity profile] hpet.livejournal.com at 03:42pm on 15/01/2010
Thanks! It started working after you did that, although now it's got up to 60% and has been sitting there for a couple of days.
 
posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:46pm on 18/01/2010
I fixed another problem and another half-gig or so squeezed up. Any joy, or was that someone else?
 
posted by [identity profile] hpet.livejournal.com at 03:57pm on 18/01/2010
That's great, I have the whole thing now, thank you. I noticed someone else was downloading it earlier, so I'll leave it seeding for now.
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posted by [personal profile] ceb at 05:45pm on 28/08/2013
"but then it doesn't really explain why Green is more tasty and nutritious"

That's just marketing.
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posted by [personal profile] damerell at 01:24am on 27/10/2013
... did you really say that in 2013?
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posted by [personal profile] ceb at 03:18pm on 27/10/2013
I think you must have pointed someone at it and prompted me to re-read it.

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