From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 11:10:01 MDT
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> In general this patent got me thinking about other
> improvements.
> After all, there are many other aspects of the body
> that could be
> made to taste and smell better. We already spend a
> lot of money on
> this, so why not get to the root of the problem? One
> approach is to
> use modified microflora, another to add chemicals
> that make body
> fluids or tissue more aromatic and a third of course
> to use gene
> therapy to make cells produce new and interesting
> flavor compounds.
> Pheromones are so old-fashioned!
Or just store all of them, to the maximum extent
possible. (Eliminating sweat, for example, would
cause problems, but even there it could be made more
efficient by removing the aromatic compounds, no?)
Excrete only under controlled circumstances. If
you're willing to go cyborg, make this to a small
thermal depolymerization unit: turning organic waste
into fuel was one of its expected uses anyway.
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