diff --git a/src/whoaremyfriends/wersindmeinefreunde.html b/src/whoaremyfriends/wersindmeinefreunde.html index c3d0e68..a8ffcc8 100644 --- a/src/whoaremyfriends/wersindmeinefreunde.html +++ b/src/whoaremyfriends/wersindmeinefreunde.html @@ -16038,6 +16038,131 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM4kFB5AGpg — Jessica Hyde, Utopia S01E02 (UK 2013) +
+ Scientist: + ... and it's so simple, it's... it's almost elegant. + It has the speed, it has the effectiveness, + so we introduce the fungus to the gut of the mosquito. + We just need a more virulent strain. + Ending the mosquito ends malaria. + Dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile virus. + We believe we are very close... + + – Carvel: + It won't work. + + – Scientist: + I beg your pardon? + + – Carvel: + M. anisopliae? That's what you're talking about? It won't work. + There's poor stability in the sporulating strains. + You'll get 35% effectiveness at best before the mosquito out-evolves it. + + – Scientist: + We believe... + + – Carvel: + Besides, there are 3,500 species of mosquito. + They've been around for 100 million years. + You think you can just yank them out of existence? + I mean, you do realise half the birds in the Arctic tundra will starve to death? + I mean, you have actually thought of that or are you just fucking idiots? + + – Scientist: + And how would you cure malaria? + + – Carvel: + Cure malaria? Why would we want to cure malaria? + Malaria's doing a great job. Leave malaria alone! + + – Scientist: + Young man, you're drunk. + + – Carvel: + Yes, I am, and in the morning you'll both still be cunts. + + – Milner: + Have you come here just to drink? + + – Carvel: + There's a blackout everywhere else. + + – Milner: + It's only held once every four years, this. + The idea is to get people together who could never normally talk. + Like politicians, world leaders... scientists. + No one knows it exists. + Is that what you are? A scientist, then? + Must be a good one to get into here. + Must be some kind of genius to get into here... + + – Carvel: + No offence. I'm sure you're great. + But why don't you just fuck off? + + – Milner: + Why don't you make me? + What's wrong with curing malaria? + Or don't you want to make the world "a better place"? + + – Carvel: + Let me explain something to you. + The sun throws a certain amount of energy onto this planet. + We turn it into food, clothing, shelter, et cetera. + It supports an amount of us, and it took 30,000 years for that amount to become one billion. + Then we found a way to use ancient sunlight, sunlight trapped in oil and coal. + We started to live off that. + What happened? In just 130 years, our population doubled. + The next billion took 30 years. The fourth billion has taken just 14. + So, here's the question. + What do you think is going to happen when that oil and coal runs out in, say, 100 years? + When there's 10 billion living on a planet that can support only one? + + – Milner: + I think we're gonna tear each other to shreds. + + – Carvel: + At last, someone with an ounce of fucking brain. + Malaria? The only disease that needs curing is us. + + – Milner: + Go on, then. + Let's throw ourselves off! + + – Carvel: + What are you doing? + + – Milner: + Well, if there's no point in being alive... + + – Carvel: + All right, Okay, I get it. Yeah, yeah, fine. I get what you... + Look, look! That... that could tip! Please don't do that. Please? + + – Milner: + Have you ever been in a genocide? + + – Carvel: + What? + + – Milner: + I have. + So, if you have some sort of answer... I'd like to hear it. + + – Carvel: + I have an answer. + No one wants to listen to me, they're all too fucking scared, + but if you come down off that table, I will tell you. + + — Utopia S02E01 (UK 2013). + Philip Carvel meets Agent Milner in 1974. +
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Why did you have him, then? Nothing uses carbon like a first-world human.
diff --git a/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html b/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html index 80105e1..5eebf26 100644 --- a/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html +++ b/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html @@ -16077,6 +16077,131 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM4kFB5AGpg — Jessica Hyde, Utopia S01E02 (UK 2013)
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+ Scientist: + ... and it's so simple, it's... it's almost elegant. + It has the speed, it has the effectiveness, + so we introduce the fungus to the gut of the mosquito. + We just need a more virulent strain. + Ending the mosquito ends malaria. + Dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile virus. + We believe we are very close... + + – Carvel: + It won't work. + + – Scientist: + I beg your pardon? + + – Carvel: + M. anisopliae? That's what you're talking about? It won't work. + There's poor stability in the sporulating strains. + You'll get 35% effectiveness at best before the mosquito out-evolves it. + + – Scientist: + We believe... + + – Carvel: + Besides, there are 3,500 species of mosquito. + They've been around for 100 million years. + You think you can just yank them out of existence? + I mean, you do realise half the birds in the Arctic tundra will starve to death? + I mean, you have actually thought of that or are you just fucking idiots? + + – Scientist: + And how would you cure malaria? + + – Carvel: + Cure malaria? Why would we want to cure malaria? + Malaria's doing a great job. Leave malaria alone! + + – Scientist: + Young man, you're drunk. + + – Carvel: + Yes, I am, and in the morning you'll both still be cunts. + + – Milner: + Have you come here just to drink? + + – Carvel: + There's a blackout everywhere else. + + – Milner: + It's only held once every four years, this. + The idea is to get people together who could never normally talk. + Like politicians, world leaders... scientists. + No one knows it exists. + Is that what you are? A scientist, then? + Must be a good one to get into here. + Must be some kind of genius to get into here... + + – Carvel: + No offence. I'm sure you're great. + But why don't you just fuck off? + + – Milner: + Why don't you make me? + What's wrong with curing malaria? + Or don't you want to make the world "a better place"? + + – Carvel: + Let me explain something to you. + The sun throws a certain amount of energy onto this planet. + We turn it into food, clothing, shelter, et cetera. + It supports an amount of us, and it took 30,000 years for that amount to become one billion. + Then we found a way to use ancient sunlight, sunlight trapped in oil and coal. + We started to live off that. + What happened? In just 130 years, our population doubled. + The next billion took 30 years. The fourth billion has taken just 14. + So, here's the question. + What do you think is going to happen when that oil and coal runs out in, say, 100 years? + When there's 10 billion living on a planet that can support only one? + + – Milner: + I think we're gonna tear each other to shreds. + + – Carvel: + At last, someone with an ounce of fucking brain. + Malaria? The only disease that needs curing is us. + + – Milner: + Go on, then. + Let's throw ourselves off! + + – Carvel: + What are you doing? + + – Milner: + Well, if there's no point in being alive... + + – Carvel: + All right, Okay, I get it. Yeah, yeah, fine. I get what you... + Look, look! That... that could tip! Please don't do that. Please? + + – Milner: + Have you ever been in a genocide? + + – Carvel: + What? + + – Milner: + I have. + So, if you have some sort of answer... I'd like to hear it. + + – Carvel: + I have an answer. + No one wants to listen to me, they're all too fucking scared, + but if you come down off that table, I will tell you. + + — Utopia S02E01 (UK 2013). + Philip Carvel meets Agent Milner in 1974. +
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Why did you have him, then? Nothing uses carbon like a first-world human.