Comments on Fictional Foodstuffs: The Snacks Of Science Fiction
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"Here's a classic scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Watch an uncomfortable dinner between the Federation crew and Klingons.
Start watching around 4:30.
The ambassadorial dinner is a classic trope that displays cultural differences using sfnal foods."
(Bill Christensen 9/29/2008 7:33:20 PM)
"I recall a short story about a delicious food with absolutely no nutritional value (for weight reduction) which was banned because the experimental rats refused to eat anything else and died of malnutrition. It was repackaged as a rat poison."
(Peter 9/30/2008 4:45:35 PM)
Centipede Robots Down On The Farm
'...the walking mills of Puffy Products began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.'
Musk Proposes Sites For Martian Cities
'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'