Back to episode — Episode 2093 Scott Adams - Musk & Maher, AI Does Drunk Kamala, CO2 Eating Microbes, AI Doctors, More
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of websites were broken, or was that just me? I don't know. All right, I guess it was just me. So there's a new obesity drug. Oh great. So now Big Pharma has found a way to battle Big Food. So Big Food is killing you with food that makes you fat. Big Pharma found a drug that will save you from the Big Food. Now I'm just guessing that that won't be the healthiest thing for you. I can't believe it…
← Previous segment →that way? Oh, I think maybe it makes you not hungry. Is that what it does? Oh, it's an appetite suppressant. Okay, so maybe that's even — I don't know. Is that better or is that worse? If you suppress your appetite, what kind of food are you likely to eat? Healthy food that doesn't taste great? Or if you have a suppressed appetite, would you be drawn to sugary food?
Here's what you need. You need a drug that only makes you not want to eat too much sugary stuff. That's all you need. You want a drug that keeps you just as hungry as always, but if you see a piece of cake you just go, "Eh, cake." And if you see something like a piece of broccoli you go, "Broccoli. Gotta get me some broccoli."
So anyway, that's happened.
Here's some good news from science. There's a microbe that eats CO2. Now it's not the first time you've heard of that, right? There's always some kind of little critter that's eating CO2, but nothing comes of it. But this one seems to be especially good, like better than anything that ever ate CO2 ever before. And they found it in some Italian volcano, which is where I go to look for my microbes. If I need a good microbe to do something that nobody's done, I'll go to an Italian volcano and I'll start looking, becau
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se that's where the good ones are. But here's why this is cool. Most of the current CO2 capture technologies — I don't know if you knew this, but they'll capture the CO2 and then it's just this physical stuff that they've got to put somewhere. So they put it in a big hole in the ground. Yeah, just bury it. But apparently if you take that same CO2 out of the atmosphere and stick it in this pond fu…
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