whymauri

Community is terrible in some games though.

No kidding... I remember you from the Battlelog forums. You got bullied before people realized it was a disease, and even after that some people were relentless. You were, and still are after three years, one of the few outstandingly positive people on the Offtopic section.

Really glad to see you on Reddit.

I'm not that the OP, but at scale and competently executed synthetic biology will almost surely provide a less expensive avenue for protein production in a lot of cases e.g.: pharmaceutical production.

But back of the envelope math is telling me that milk has 6 grams of casein per cup (around 250ml) and microbiological protein yields are measured in terms of milligrams per liter. A master of their craft may be yielding 50 milligrams of generic protein per 250ml, which puts us 2 orders of magnitude away from the target goal of 6000 milligram. Highly automated (and expensive) pharmaceutical bioreactors push the upper limit, yielding around 3g per liter which gets pretty close but is off by an order of magnitude and involves a process hyper-optimized specifically for antibodies.

So the answer is either (1) it will be more expensive or (2) there will be a financially motivated paradigm shift in the limits of recombinant protein purification yield that will make this more affordable. Alternatively, there could be government subsidy programs for this kind of food contingent on the fact that it saves the environment and other resources.

can you leave your political bullshit out for now, please

There's alternatives to MissionU already existing. Check out "MicroMasters" on EdX, supported by MIT and following as strict a curriculum as actual students.

Actually, several MIT classes are being run concurrently with EdX courses - same psets, same exams, same lectures recorded and posted online. I took a placement exam, and it was the final exam for the EdX course 7.01X Biology: the Secret of Life which surprised me because it means that MOOC students are being held to the same standards as actual MIT students. This to me is very exciting!

I spoke to Agarwal, the founder of EdX, and the short-term goal is to roll out and legitimize "micro master" degree programs for free where you can get a proctored grade and certificate for completing courseware. I can see MOOCs going from personal enrichment to legitimate, reasonably competitive college alternatives within the next decade.

From what he's been talking about, probably more technology and engineering focused curricula - or at least an option in that flavor. It's no surprise that the top performing schools in the nation are STEM schools.

Also given his background with coding camps/mentorships, probably partnerships with those venues.