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Cinder Spires Setting discussion [TAW Sample Chapter SPOILERS]
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--- Quote from: ITheHellAmFan on September 22, 2015, 04:10:22 PM ---I agree. For real science fiction that something like printing meat or replicators makes sense, but not in Steampunk.
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Concur. Especially in light of the comment about how their competitor's vat-meat was "rubbery chum"
cass:
I dunno. Growing cultures on a framework isn't particularly advanced stuff. You can grow rock candy/sugar crystals on a string, after all. Growing bacterial cultures isn't hard-- god knows I do it all the time in my fridge-- and I could well believe that they could induce edible tissue to grow from a broth of otherwise inedible proteins/lipids/sugars without the use of computers, etc. I could also believe that there's skill in it-- inducing the fibers to grow in such a way as to give it a tender (or firm or whatever) texture. Sort of like making a rock candy rib cage, instead of just a string with lumps hanging from it.
The whole 3D printed/culture-grown meat thing isn't particularly far along in our world because, frankly, there hasn't been a need. Ranching/livestock farming produces meat cheaper and quicker, and thus far there hasn't been a need to curtail it.
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--- Quote from: cass on September 22, 2015, 08:28:35 PM ---I dunno. Growing cultures on a framework isn't particularly advanced stuff. You can grow rock candy/sugar crystals on a string, after all. Growing bacterial cultures isn't hard-- god knows I do it all the time in my fridge-- and I could well believe that they could induce edible tissue to grow from a broth of otherwise inedible proteins/lipids/sugars without the use of computers, etc. I could also believe that there's skill in it-- inducing the fibers to grow in such a way as to give it a tender (or firm or whatever) texture. Sort of like making a rock candy rib cage, instead of just a string with lumps hanging from it.
The whole 3D printed/culture-grown meat thing isn't particularly far along in our world because, frankly, there hasn't been a need. Ranching/livestock farming produces meat cheaper and quicker, and thus far there hasn't been a need to curtail it.
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My hesitance comes less from a lack of computer analogs or their ability to physically perform the processes, and more from my own assumptions that they'd need far more advanced scientific development in Biology and organic chemistry than is present in most Steampunk settings that are generally a Victorian analog in that regard.
cass:
Ah. And I was coming at it from a necessity-drives-development direction. I don't read much steampunk, so I'm unfamiliar with the typical tech level. Is limited living space (and therefore different methods of food production) a theme? I just sort of jumped from 'surface is inaccessible' to 'culturing meat makes sense if they can't raise it' without a huge amount of in between.
Second Aristh:
Well, it's called steampunk because tech is supposed to stick roughly near the idea of a fantastical steam engine. Obviously you take liberties because things like airships and laser gauntlets are cool, but if you go too far you lose the flavor of the genre.
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