...plus the methane buildup in an enclosed area like a spaceship.
Atmospheric cleansing. Hey, the gasses given off by humans have to be dealt with, on a smaller scale...
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DCJensen - Aug 10, 2005 12:34:52 pm PDT #4172 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 12:47:42 pm PDT #4173 of 10001
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Plus, a great buzz once you get past the smell and the random explosions.
Can't believe I know this... most of the methane from a cow actually is from when they are chewing their cud. It's more a front end emission and not a back end, as it were.
evil jimi - Aug 10, 2005 3:22:34 pm PDT #4174 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
ETA: Basically, I'm willing to handwave that the buyers had need of an actual herd, for whatever reason, rather than simply meat or breeding material.
Also that "Benny" had a herd he had to get rid of and it was more profitable to smuggle it to another planet than to slaughter there and then.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2005 2:40:58 am PDT #4175 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If we assume ultra cheap and efficient power production and the manufacturing advances that go along with it (and readily available private interplanetary travel and the humongous cities we've seen on the Inner Worlds both support this), it may be that organic goods such as live cattle have a lot more value relative to mechanical ones as compared to our own culture.
DXMachina - Aug 11, 2005 3:32:51 am PDT #4176 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
it may be that organic goods such as live cattle have a lot more value relative to mechanical ones as compared to our own culture.
They might, but it would still be cheaper to transport semen and ova rather than the whole steer. Think of it as a cow kit.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2005 3:44:54 am PDT #4177 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it would still be cheaper to transport semen and ova rather than the whole steer.
Depends on how soon you need the steer, doesn't it?
DCJensen - Aug 11, 2005 3:48:57 am PDT #4178 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Still? Long term solution, rather than short. Perhaps reserved for massive importation, rather than short hauls.
Plus, there might be cultural reasons for live cattle on that moon/planet.
Volans - Aug 11, 2005 4:15:18 am PDT #4179 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Think of it as a cow kit.
You would need trained people to do the AI, and either actual live cows to implant the fertilized egg in, or some spiffy technological womb-machine. So maybe that herd of cows Benny was selling were all girls, with calf-beds for rent.
there might be cultural reasons for live cattle on that moon/planet
Yep - how else are you going to buy a wife, if you can't trade cattle for her?
DCJensen - Aug 11, 2005 5:26:37 am PDT #4180 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yep - how else are you going to buy a wife, if you can't trade cattle for her?
Very true. Or steal the wife and buy the cattle...
DCJensen - Aug 11, 2005 5:27:31 am PDT #4181 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Of course, they could trade a cow for magic space beans.