Posted on 09/15/2010 5:58:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Heading to Mars? Save room for three tons of food. That's about how much you'll need to feed a crew of four during an 18-month trip.
Or, you could harvest your own crops from a space greenhouse, like the prototype unit NASA is testing in Arizona this month during its space technology lollapalooza known as Desert RATs.
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What was that 70’s scifi flick about that greenhouse spaceship, the guy, and the three robots?
Silent Running with Bruce Dern.
Was I the first to reply?
One of my Guilty favorites. “Silent Running”
Who doesn’t like the idea of Bruce Dern nuking himself?
Agreed. I think burrowing into asteroids is another good idea for long term space travel.
Never seen that movie..
Ha! Got you by eight seconds and the computer hung up on posting too.
I will give myself a cookie to commemorate my victory! (I was going to eat it anyway, but now I have an excuse,) Useless knowledge comes in handy in a meaningless situation once again!
I’m checking to see if the library has it right now.
Early 70s greenie sci fi but an otherwise interesting flick. Not a lot of action unless you think robots playing cards is action but for some reason the movie always holds out as a favorite.
If you can get past Joan Baez caterwalling, there’s always Bruce Dern’s nuclear suicide to look foward to.
When they start grazing cattle, let me know.
By the way, Obama’s plan to focus NASA on a trip to Mars after they improve relations with the followers of Mohammed, will begin by an attempt to orbit cattle. It will be the herd shot around the world.
Ah, but can you get your salad tossed in space ?
Some of Doug Trumball’s work. I think that is what was actually good about the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji67t8xJF-s&feature=related
Let me get this straight — I’m going to spend two years going to Mars and back, while crappin’ and peein’ in a tube, AND probably not getting laid (definitely, since there’s no way to lay anything in microgravity) — and all I get to eat is salad?
Well u can count me out, don’t like peein in a tube, don’t like not getting laid, and definitely don’t like salad!
Huh! LED’s. I’ve been wondering if you could grow plants with those.
Actually, the applications are endless here on earth: indoors, underground, undersea. You create a source of photosynthesis apart from the sun, you increase the biological capacity of the earth by orders of magnitude.
And they’re not mentioning that no salad dressing will be allowed (cause it floats around and sticks to everything), IOW, dry salad. Mmm, just like mom used to dump in the trash because it went bad in the fridge.
Man, sign me up for that!
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