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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:09AM (#18137819)
That just means there's space for improvements to be made. There's research to be done on what makes plants tastier, and there's work to be done in applying such research.

But yes, being able to produce fresh food better, faster and in more controlled way is definitely worth pursuing for humanity.

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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by wiz21c on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:09AM (#18147438)
>>> There's research to be done on what makes plants tastier, and there's work to be done in applying such research.

there's earth, rain and sun and millions of years or R&D already done and proven successful. I really wonder what kind of research youo want...

What you may want is : tasty food for everyone on earth. But that's not science, that's much more politics.

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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by mtrovo on Saturday October 06, 2018 @06:14AM (#18154398)
Don't know if you're being a troll but in fact there's a lot of research to be done. https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/02/11/this-is-what...

A lot of food that we eat today evolved really fast after we started to care about their taste and only select the ones with the properties we want. We're talking about maximum 10k years of fast evolution for human taste, not millions of years.

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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by deialtrous on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:50AM (#18139845)
>But yes, being able to produce fresh food better, faster and in more controlled way is definitely worth pursuing for humanity.

But it isn't better. And why is making worse food faster worth pursuing for humanity? All the available evidence seems to suggest that a rural agrarian lifestyle provides more happiness and fulfillment. It would seem that we should be pursuing how to move people into the country to grow their own food, not how to support the highest possible population of humans at the expense of those humans and everything else on the planet.

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