Genetic Engineering...
Season 2 Episode 16:
Cliff's Rocky Moment
Airdate:
January 26 1984 |
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The show starts off with some of Clifford Clavin's insight. |
With the
recent strides in genetic engineering, I mean, we'll soon be
faced with the possibility of producing enormous farm animals
to feed the hungry millions. Now imagine one cow to feed an
entire city, one egg making an omelette for an entire family.
Yeah, I mean with the advances we're making today, the future
is unlimited Norm.
(Victor: "So is his mouth")
Victor is a bar patron who takes
exception to Cliff's ramblings and tries to pick a fight with
him.
The scene ends with this classic
exchange between Norm and Cliff:
Cliff:
Doesn't seem fair, does it
Norm?
Norm:
What?
Cliff: Well,
that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in
the world that go to bed stupid every night.
The truth:
Looking into feeding a city with one
animal we present these calculations:
- The smallest city we could find
was 1,500 people.
- Feeding the entire city is vague
as to how long so we'll go with the minimum; 1 meal.
- We are guessing that 1/4 pound
can feed one person so to feed the city will take 425 pounds
of meat.
- A cow can easily weigh 900
pounds and 1/2 of it can be edible so a 900 pound cow
can easily feed our city.
Now if we look at the omelette, an
ostrich egg is equivalent to about 24 chicken eggs, so one egg
can easily feed a family.
Cliff Recommends:
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