http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/want-fries-with-those-packets-introducing-foodtubes.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
WE LIVE IN THE MOTHERFUCKING FUTURE. I EXPECT MY FLYING CAR SOON.

I just wish their slideshow didn't look so horrible. I even saw some Comic Sans on the first slide.

Hmm...

I can't see this or flying cars getting off the ground.

Is this going to use UDP or TCP? In networking if a packet gets lost you retransmit or the user does without, extend that to tomatoes and the cost shoots up or the customer gets pissed off.

Dammit, UK only. Now I can't request my Dong Dongs while playing CoD/sarcasm.
I approve.

And the Internet is... OMG, it all makes sense now xD !

These are food tubes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RDav7KkXFnM#t=654s

This reminds me of the wacky stuff people in the 70's thought we'd have by the late 90's.

We've got Youtube, we've got Porntube. It's time for BEERTUBE!!!

This is really, really awesome and all, but how do they plan to kill all those responsible for all of the other technological and scientific progress that's been held back in favor of 'moral values'?

Surely they'd have to find some way to snuff a bunch of old bastards before 'food tubes' are no longer a 'one-way street towards obesity, laziness, entitlement, and fears of terrorists poisoning our food supply'. Right?

Aside from all that, there's that other reason we don't have stuff like this and flying cars.


1. This technology is for the wealthy. Everybody else exists primarily for the purpose of making this possible.

2. Some stuck-up people realize that idiots would ruin this for everyone. People can barely drive in two dimensions. Making them have to work with three of them would be too much, and suggesting that 'humans are dumb as fuck and unfit to drive as it is, and the future will have vehicles that run on autopilot' results in more questions, and a lot more unintelligible yelling, than any useful answers.


So, yeah. I can only hope I live long enough to become qualified and hired to be the guy who fixes food tube jams for somebody who could afford to have it installed in their house. Most people can't even afford to have broadband and cable installed into their house, much less pay the fees.

The real problem involves half-wits putting their mouth on one end of a tube and mashing buttons. Perhaps the kind of parents who would somehow jam their children into the tubes and tell them to bring back food for free. I just know that people would find some way to fuck things up! XD

We need this or teleportation of food....which shouldn't be too bad as most food doesn't have to worry about staying alive during the transfer. Hmm......

Nice find....

And in general IMO alot of things are hard to accomplish due to not enough scientific knowledge or risks in the tech being abused/etc or dangers inherent in using such(A fusion reactor if it exploded could cause considerable damage, regardless if this is very likely or not for example). Flying cars could fall out of the sky, or people could crash while drunk, but imo the tech could help alot of people in some cases(less traffic on the highway for example...maybe make the car drive itself via sensors built into every road to allow it to navigate and motion sensor to avoid impacts).