From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 22:30:28 MDT
I remember reading when I was younger (in playboy),
That if you eat a whole bunch of strawberries, your spunk
comes out with a strawberry scent to it... But you have to eat a
Bowl a day for like a week straight... Its also supposed to make
it sweeter....
The military did something similar back in WWII; they were
Trying to get soldiers to see in the infrared spectrum (natively).
Since sight [color sensitivity] is determined primarily by
excitation of specific molecules (rhodopsin or somesuch,
my bio is a bit hazy :P) which is directly derived from
vitamin A (a good source of which is carrots), they figured that if
They fed soldiers a modified form of vitamin A, they could shift
The spectral sensitivities of their sight. So they fed these guys
On the modified vitamin A, and kept the normal vitamin A out of their
diet...
Their bodies processed the modified vitamin A (since no significant
Amount of normal vitamin A was present) and incorpated them into
The optical chemicals... This resulted in a change in their perception
curve,
In that they could no longer perceive red, but, they could now DIRECTLY
perceive infrared light... If you stopped feeding them the modded
Vitamin
A, their sight eventually returned to normal... Shortly thereafter,
somebody
came up with a technological advance that allowed infrared goggles to be
Produced more cheaply, thus obviating that particular line of research
{due to the lead time involved, and loss of red as a perceptable
stimulus)...
That leads me to conclude that playboy may have been right :)
Anybody wanna test the theory ;P :) :)
omard-out
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dossy
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:04 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Making sex tastier
>
>
> On 2003.06.12, Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> > United States Patent 6,485,773
> >
> > A truly transhuman patent (mentioned in last Scientific American):
> > improving the taste of male ejaculate. After all, why just
> settle for
> > the natural flavor? Transhumanism is about improving *all* areas of
> > human life, taboos be damned.
>
> They forgot to add phosphor to the mix. Not only should
> spunk be tasty, it should glow in the dark, TOO!
>
> -- Dossy
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
> Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
> "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
> folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>
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