- Veganism for space travel was debated: animals are inefficient, bulky, and labor-intensive; mushrooms were proposed as a nutritionally and ecologically superior substitute for chickens.  
- ESA’s MELiSSA life-support project (linked by Utopiah) was cited as prior work on closed-loop, plant-based food systems for long-duration missions.  
- Health concerns about meat substitutes were raised: seitan (wheat gluten) may damage intestinal lining, and Quorn’s mycoprotein digestibility was questioned; PubMed was suggested for evidence.  
- A vision of “self-tuning” human digestion via gene editing and regulatory logic was floated to broaden dietary tolerance—likened to a biological “Mr. Fusion.”  
- kanzure received an Emotiv EPOC EEG headset and began reverse-engineering it under Linux, discovering it enumerates as USB HID 1.11, pairs over an unknown wireless link, and exposes a web server on port 1726.  
- Driver development hit USB permission and buffering issues; raw 32-byte packets were captured but their meaning remains undeciphered.  
- An open-source C# project “EmotivSharp” on SourceForge was found and successfully compiled as a potential decoding resource.  
- New SKDB hardware-description stubs were uploaded to designfiles.org/packages, expanding the open-source hardware database.  
- LOCKSS (“Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) digital-preservation system was shared as a model for resilient data archiving.  
- Peter Thiel’s 2007 Wired interview on “how to invest in the Singularity” was resurfaced for strategic insights.