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Thu, May. 8th, 2008, 03:30 pm
"This...is a chemical burn."

It's been a very long time since I've read an issue of 2000 AD, but I seem to remember that one of the many concepts introduced in the Judge Dredd features was of a body processing system that removed the need for standard funeral burial and recycled the bulk of the body's elements for future use. With alkaline hydrolysis, welcome to the future. Now if we could just get everything else right...
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 02:31 am (UTC)
[info]stephen_dedman

The body processing system for dead bodies was also featured in Brave New World, long before 2000 AD. And while the feelies, escalator squash and electromagnetic golf, and laws prohibiting the creation of any games unless they consume more resources than existing games, may not be too far away, and others may already be here, I think official approval for BNW's education system may be some time in coming.
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 01:59 pm (UTC)
[info]sclerotic_rings

You've obviously never been to a Texas high school. The difference here, of course, is that this is a system that convinces all of the Deltas and Epsilons that they're actually Alpha Pluses.
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 03:25 pm (UTC)
[info]stephen_dedman

I was referring to the sanctioned "erotic play" for small children and the use of electroshock aversion therapy to teach infants to hate nature... though if you told me that the latter was being tried as part of Bush's 'No Park Left Undrilled' policy, I would not be astonished.
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 04:08 am (UTC)
[info]lots42

I read that story. It ate some Redshirt Judges, then Dredd had to rescue a Female Judge from it. Sigh.
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 04:11 am (UTC)
[info]dlphntat

I think it's a damn fine idea.
better than rotting in the ground
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