So? We're talking about TV and the Internet.

That's interesting. It's from Saturday Night Live. I'm in America, YouTube says I can't view it in this country.

I just love the Internet.

No problem. Just go back to bleeding and purging, trephenation and charging an arm and a leg.

A natural law? Ok, what is it and why is it 'natural'?

10:00 where I live.

I would imagine so. Police helicopters still have to follow FAA flight rules. Yes, they get exemptions for things, but they are covered by regulations nonetheless.

You would think so, they're just wee critters, but one gets the feeling from TFA that this is the secret sauce.

As usual, not enough info to go on. Too busy to research it further. It's not raining and my boat needs (more) work.

You must be fun at potlucks.

Maybe he meant orthogonal.

TFA is a little vague about this. It sort of implies that they are raising plankton and that the breakthrough has been basically plankton husbandry. If that is indeed the case, then the ecological footprint of this may be reasonable (we, of course, don't know what it takes to grow plankton on an industrial scale).

If, however, they are actually harvesting wild plankton, and plan on doing this on an industrial scale, then I forsee some problems. Plankton are at the core of the oceans food change. Take a bit enough bite out of that and you've trashed the ocean ecology.

So, instead of harvesting wild fish to feed the farmed fish, we harvest the wild plankton that feed the wild fish that we don't want to kill.

Yes, you eliminate the middleman (middlefish?) but you are farming just the same. Ecologically, you are stomping on the food chain at a lower level which can cause even bigger issues. Lots and lots of things in the ocean (including the ocean bottom itself) feed on plankton.

Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

Always ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

we are drop down?

Sorry, caffeine insufficiency. Off to rectify that issue.

You're exactly right, but how do you get from here to there? If current demographic trends hold, we are drop down to a reasonable carrying capacity in 2100 or so.

Or next week, depending on the scenario.

Are you crazy? The current powers that be would love to denigrate Anthropogenic Climate Change. Their is lots of money to be found supporting the current economic paradigm of full steam (literally) ahead. The fact that their is little debate in the field makes me very worried. Remember, scientists, if left to their own devices, would argue about what day it is.

This isn't the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody gets impaled for saying things that run against the grain of major opinion. The only naysayers are a few irrational folks whose thinking has been conclusively to be incorrect.

Grab your shorts and sun screen. Then grab your ankles.