Given

A device that can convert any organic matter into any food perfectly accurately (subject to the limits of conservation of matter [1]), at a rate fast enough to keep a family fed, costing about the same as a PC and producing food at a cost roughly ten the cost of the energy in the chemical bonds we exploit (2),

should it be legal to sell?

Also, should food-patterns be owned or public domain, and if the first, how long should patents last?



1: Specifically, if an element isn't in the mix that goes in, it won't be in the mix that comes out.

2: So a year's food might come to around $400.00 per person.

Given

A device that can convert any organic matter into any food perfectly accurately (subject to the limits of conservation of matter [1]), at a rate fast enough to keep a family fed, costing about the same as a PC and producing food at a cost roughly ten the cost of the energy in the chemical bonds we exploit (2),

should it be legal to sell?

Also, should food-patterns be owned or public domain, and if the first, how long should patents last?



1: Specifically, if an element isn't in the mix that goes in, it won't be in the mix that comes out.

2: So a year's food might come to around $400.00 per person.

Given

A device that can convert any organic matter into any food perfectly accurately (subject to the limits of conservation of matter [1]), at a rate fast enough to keep a family fed, costing about the same as a PC and producing food at a cost roughly ten the cost of the energy in the chemical bonds we exploit (2),

should it be legal to sell?

Also, should food-patterns be owned or public domain, and if the first, how long should patents last?



1: Specifically, if an element isn't in the mix that goes in, it won't be in the mix that comes out.

2: So a year's food might come to around $400.00 per person.

I for one welcome our elliptical overlords

Inspired by the low metalicity system found orbiting HD 155358, Systemic muses on what might be found in giant ellipitical like M87, ending with this thought:

To the best of our knowledge, it takes 4.5 billion years from the epoch of planetary formation to the point where technology and directed information processing emerge. This means that when we look back at elliptical galaxies at redshift z~0.65, we’re seeing what may have been the Universe’s golden age — the time and the environment when the density of civilizations was the highest that it will ever be. What happened to them? Where are they now?

I for one welcome our elliptical overlords

Inspired by the low metalicity system found orbiting HD 155358, Systemic muses on what might be found in giant ellipitical like M87, ending with this thought:

To the best of our knowledge, it takes 4.5 billion years from the epoch of planetary formation to the point where technology and directed information processing emerge. This means that when we look back at elliptical galaxies at redshift z~0.65, we’re seeing what may have been the Universe’s golden age — the time and the environment when the density of civilizations was the highest that it will ever be. What happened to them? Where are they now?

I for one welcome our elliptical overlords

Inspired by the low metalicity system found orbiting HD 155358, Systemic muses on what might be found in giant ellipitical like M87, ending with this thought:

To the best of our knowledge, it takes 4.5 billion years from the epoch of planetary formation to the point where technology and directed information processing emerge. This means that when we look back at elliptical galaxies at redshift z~0.65, we’re seeing what may have been the Universe’s golden age — the time and the environment when the density of civilizations was the highest that it will ever be. What happened to them? Where are they now?

Dollars and cents

My blog is worth $94,278.18.
How much is your blog worth?

Dollars and cents

My blog is worth $94,278.18.
How much is your blog worth?

Dollars and cents

My blog is worth $94,278.18.
How much is your blog worth?

Victoria Skurnick News (unrelated to recent events)

I got email (which I meant to mention before now) from Victoria Skurnick, the former Editor-in-Chief of Book-of-the-Month. As of May 21st, she is an agent with the Levine Greenberg Agency. She can be reached at:

Victoria Skurnick
Agent
LEVINE GREENBERG LITERARY AGENCY, INC.
307 Seventh Avenue Suite 2407
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212.337.0934 ext. 1206
Fax: 212.337.0948
www.levinegreenberg.com

Victoria Skurnick News (unrelated to recent events)

I got email (which I meant to mention before now) from Victoria Skurnick, the former Editor-in-Chief of Book-of-the-Month. As of May 21st, she is an agent with the Levine Greenberg Agency. She can be reached at:

Victoria Skurnick
Agent
LEVINE GREENBERG LITERARY AGENCY, INC.
307 Seventh Avenue Suite 2407
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212.337.0934 ext. 1206
Fax: 212.337.0948
www.levinegreenberg.com

Victoria Skurnick News (unrelated to recent events)

I got email (which I meant to mention before now) from Victoria Skurnick, the former Editor-in-Chief of Book-of-the-Month. As of May 21st, she is an agent with the Levine Greenberg Agency. She can be reached at:

Victoria Skurnick
Agent
LEVINE GREENBERG LITERARY AGENCY, INC.
307 Seventh Avenue Suite 2407
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212.337.0934 ext. 1206
Fax: 212.337.0948
www.levinegreenberg.com