According to the Cracked article, "6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of" the agave plant is already in short supply.
"In 2006, the Bush administration introduced new regulations to begin substituting gasoline with biofuels made from corn-based ethanol, the idea being to ease America's dependency on foreign oil. One side effect was that ethanol prices skyrocketed to the point that farmers in Mexico started abandoning their old crops in favor of corn to ship off to the U.S.
Unfortunately, this included destroying crops of agave cactus (from which tequila is made) by setting them on fire, because that's how they roll in Mexico."
I've always been curious about whether or not the Uncanny Valley could be applied to animals too. Do we react differently to animals like chimps that seem more human? Is there something of a "creeped out" factor there?
After seeing a few previews of the upcoming Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie I definitely felt a little creeped out. I wonder if it's less about robots and more about "almost human."
I've never heard of a high speed pipe smoking contest. Normally at pipe meets (yes...they have them) the contest is for the slowest smoking of a continually burning pipe.
Of course, those competitions can last as long as 2 hours....much harder to videotape....or get someone to watch. ;-)
Great Moustaches Mug
It was an issue when the tubes were made of metal and were difficult to unbend, but now that they're all plastic it really makes no difference.
"In 2006, the Bush administration introduced new regulations to begin substituting gasoline with biofuels made from corn-based ethanol, the idea being to ease America's dependency on foreign oil. One side effect was that ethanol prices skyrocketed to the point that farmers in Mexico started abandoning their old crops in favor of corn to ship off to the U.S.
Unfortunately, this included destroying crops of agave cactus (from which tequila is made) by setting them on fire, because that's how they roll in Mexico."
After seeing a few previews of the upcoming Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie I definitely felt a little creeped out. I wonder if it's less about robots and more about "almost human."
Of course, those competitions can last as long as 2 hours....much harder to videotape....or get someone to watch. ;-)