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4 thoughts on “559 – Words To Die By”

  1. Ha! I love the “o` lead poisoning” comment, I’ve used it to run kids off there were trying to set our hay bales on fire 😉

    1. Never mind that my shotgun had rock salt loads 😀

  2. Finally the two female leads are face-to-face! Now if Rosa can swoop in to save Suzie….

    1. Oh I have a hunch she was expecting this, and why they robbed the “coffins” for the floating cams first. Everyone is going to be freaked out when the cams go haywire and then the cavalry will show up.

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559 – Words To Die By

In Suzie's defense, it's not like they were going to get out of this by being nice.

Science (fiction) marches on…

Ever watched an old movie or television show featuring “future” technology and chuckled because, for example, they considered a phone that didn’t need to be plugged into a wall to be a big deal?

Some things like Star Trek‘s replicators or transporters remain the realm of science fiction, but other speculative fiction often falls prey to the march of time. No one’s reanimating dead tissue a la Dr. Frankenstein yet (that I know of, anyhow), but Jules Verne’s flight of fancy about massive submersible vehicles of war didn’t take long to become a reality. Speaking of reanimating tissue, though…

https://mashable.com/article/kfc-3d-printed-chicken-nuggets/

American fast food chain KFC has announced plans to debut 3D printed chicken nuggets made from a mix of plant matter and meat grown in a lab. In other words, basically meat cloned from chicken cells. That sort of tech is something we posited for the Zombie Ranch world seeing as livestock is mostly a memory of the past, and now here it is in the, err, flesh.

Honestly, this sort of thing makes me wonder if the replicators aren’t too far-fetched, after all? No breakthrough on those transporters, though, so figure on still getting from place to place the hard way for the foreseeable future.