Definitions by hammer---;, hytham
Dustafarians
This is the weirdest shit ever! The word came to fame at the rise of the Alcor Life-Extension Foundation at the mid-90s.
Famous, rich people (Ted Williams the baseball player?), led the craze and others just followed lead now they are called 'Alcorians' as a collective noun to refer to this emerging class of 'cryonauts': the cryogenically-suspensed Alcor 'residents', who vary from cryo-sleeping 'corpsicles' frozen in 'dewars', filled with cryoprotectants alongside their friends and families (or the 'context'!), in a 'patient' care bay connected 24/7/365 to 'crackphones' that moniter fissures in their bodies all the time including special 'respirocycles' (artificial O2-breathing bloodcells pumped into their bodies at a regular basis!) and going through their first life-cycle (second re-freeze 'matrix' that replaces 60% of the water inside to turn their tissues into a glass-like liquidform)... and those who believe that one day science can be able to clone their bodies from 'neuropreserved' genetic material and who wish to be 'cephalically-isolated' (called 'neuros' in the jargon of Alcorians that use this neuroengineering technology occasionally) until 'reanimated'... to those who wish to be frozen while still alive in a process called 'vistasis'!
This 'utopian biotechnology' (also called 'paradise engineering'), has created an 'enhancement divide' between those 'terraformers' (unpreserved humans!) and the transhumanists who aspire for what they call 'morphological freedom' in these stainless steel vats.
We are face-to-face with this new 'biological fundamentalism' of 'self-evolution' that refer derogatorily to us Dustafarians by such Alcorians and Extropians as mere humans (mehums), or 'humies'!
Famous, rich people (Ted Williams the baseball player?), led the craze and others just followed lead now they are called 'Alcorians' as a collective noun to refer to this emerging class of 'cryonauts': the cryogenically-suspensed Alcor 'residents', who vary from cryo-sleeping 'corpsicles' frozen in 'dewars', filled with cryoprotectants alongside their friends and families (or the 'context'!), in a 'patient' care bay connected 24/7/365 to 'crackphones' that moniter fissures in their bodies all the time including special 'respirocycles' (artificial O2-breathing bloodcells pumped into their bodies at a regular basis!) and going through their first life-cycle (second re-freeze 'matrix' that replaces 60% of the water inside to turn their tissues into a glass-like liquidform)... and those who believe that one day science can be able to clone their bodies from 'neuropreserved' genetic material and who wish to be 'cephalically-isolated' (called 'neuros' in the jargon of Alcorians that use this neuroengineering technology occasionally) until 'reanimated'... to those who wish to be frozen while still alive in a process called 'vistasis'!
This 'utopian biotechnology' (also called 'paradise engineering'), has created an 'enhancement divide' between those 'terraformers' (unpreserved humans!) and the transhumanists who aspire for what they call 'morphological freedom' in these stainless steel vats.
We are face-to-face with this new 'biological fundamentalism' of 'self-evolution' that refer derogatorily to us Dustafarians by such Alcorians and Extropians as mere humans (mehums), or 'humies'!
The arties (AIs) in the future will look at us Dustafarians and laugh: they were the cryonicit's mad dream, but now they are the immortal enhants, RoboSapiens, the homorphs (human morphs), the neomorphs, ultra-humans, pseudohumans, the transhumans, the post-humans... the exes who 'transed' from mere flesh ,to the 'technorapture'.
One day, machines will overcome humans and enslave them in what scientists pre-describe as the point of 'Singualrity' or artificial emergence! (This really has already happened only in silico: 'network emergence' of Internet-based AI).
One day, machines will overcome humans and enslave them in what scientists pre-describe as the point of 'Singualrity' or artificial emergence! (This really has already happened only in silico: 'network emergence' of Internet-based AI).
Dustafarians by hammer---;, hytham April 23, 2007
e-grass
Or 'energy crops': any energy grass that yields high B.T.U.s (British Thermal Units) per kilogram used as an alternative 'clean' power source.
One good example of e-grass is grassohol: ethanol extracted from switchgrass.
Other plant-source enregy crops are derived from cooking-oil!
'Greasel' (grease diesel), one like what is called 'M-Diesel': methanol mixed with cooking-oil.
Some interesting alternative energy sources are MFCs (microbial-fuel cells: they are mainly, bacteria that turn waste into fuel known as 'living batteries' or 'biobatteries'), sometimes used in gastrobots (see, smart dust) that live off sugar as food!
One last biological innovation are 'biosolar' cells that synthesises protiens to generate electricity!
Other plant-source enregy crops are derived from cooking-oil!
'Greasel' (grease diesel), one like what is called 'M-Diesel': methanol mixed with cooking-oil.
Some interesting alternative energy sources are MFCs (microbial-fuel cells: they are mainly, bacteria that turn waste into fuel known as 'living batteries' or 'biobatteries'), sometimes used in gastrobots (see, smart dust) that live off sugar as food!
One last biological innovation are 'biosolar' cells that synthesises protiens to generate electricity!
e-grass by hammer---;, hytham April 22, 2007
liquid coal
An emulsion of butane (extracted as raw bitumen), and water used as an alternative fuel-source because of rising oil prices and to curb air pollution. It has vast reserves in the world.
liquid coal by hammer---;, hytham April 22, 2007
frozen smoke
frozen smoke by hammer---;, hytham April 22, 2007
vertical cuisine
Food-presentation forms other than vertical cuisine:
-plating: small pieces of food, not overly decorated.
-foams: a new method of presenting food as frothy and aerated for more flavor!
-plating: small pieces of food, not overly decorated.
-foams: a new method of presenting food as frothy and aerated for more flavor!
vertical cuisine by hammer---;, hytham April 22, 2007
floating verse
The 'grunt-'n'-slide' music of early country bluesmen has a unique floating verse combined with its own African 'griot' origins.
floating verse by hammer---;, hytham April 22, 2007