Has anyone here have crazy ideas of what they want to do in life, only to realise those might be absolutely pointless?

As I've studied Food Production Technology, I have this idea of somehow making it possible to mix phages in foods for vaccination purposes. Phages are natural viruses to bacteria, so they are difficult to be used in that way...

Another idea is to make simulations of life of bacteria of different kinds.

And study the hell out of some pretty weird genetic mutations that are purely esthetic, but shouldn't happen.

Yeah, I am into microbiology and genetics...

I'd also like to develop games...

I totally feel you but when it comes to playing around with biology on any scale, I'm the kind of guy that would rather not get involved.
Developing games sounds nice though 😅

@KidLaser Me, too, to be honest... But if it could be done it would be cool.

Niche - a cool game about genetic mutants

http://niche-game.com/

@KidLaser @BlueNutterfly yeah kind of the same route in the opposite direction, i didnt study at all and landed up as a structured code developer of which i totally enjoy with a love hate BDSM relationship towards the language. funny how life lets you end up in the right direction where your passion truely lies.

Adding 2 cents, it would have been a dollar but there is a limit on comments.

I have this crazy idea to become self sufficient and leave this crazy society.

Genetics and microbiology need developers and mathematicians... and it's a super interesting field to be in! ;-)

19k upvotes? You beautiful fuckin machine! Does your thumb not get tired?

And related to your question, I've always wanted to be a farmer. It's not crazy but it would be a hell of a lifestyle shock.

@AlgoRythm Well, I have started feeling like a machine recently because of lacking emotion in situations where I would have gone crazy earlier, so that's a fun way of describing me! ^_^

It would be... I have this memory of planting beans with my grandfather in a horrible rain. I remember it having been fun. Now those were the days.

@BlueNutterfly I feel what you mean. It's so hard to feel things when you're just tired or worn down. But as I'm sure you've noticed, life comes in ups and downs, and every down is just reassurance that an up is coming (Although they seem to take their sweet fucking time, don't they?)

Hang in there, good things happen to good people. You're gonna be just fine eventually, and it's gonna feel amazing.

@AlgoRythm I meant to say things that were stressful to me have basically no effect nowadays.

A good thing to me. I used to have severe reactions on those.

Yeah, in particular anatomy & neuroscience has my interest, but they're probably never gonna lead to anything professionally.

Anatomy because It interests me, to know how body works and it ties in with my interests in lifting iron.

Neuroscience is partly same reason, health but also because of the can draw parallels when programming which in turns helps me remember stuff :)

Partly same with astronomy as with neuroscience, but not quite as interested :p

For "crazy ideas" spawned thereof, well.. Often writing code to represent concepts I didn't quite fully grasp, to better understand it... :D
- normal people would take notes where I code x)

I have heard that they put bacteriophages on lunch meat to prevent food poisoning.

@projektaquarius Probably to disinfect the food. Phages naturally prey on select microbes.

Move to France. Learn the shit out of Haskell and Processing languages.

— I implement everything in Haskell because I can
— Sir, I *just* need your name for the cup...

That's weird, but there's something charming in mastering the technology that nobody seem to use