the choice of salad is actually ingenious - the chief costs in space exploration is the fuel required to lift everything out of the earth's gravity well, so anything that saves weight is helpful; and of course vegetarians tend to be skinnier...
Does this really save weight? I don't know much about gardening but how much soil are we shipping to the moon to grow these crops and how long will that soil be viable? You can't make something from nothing and it seems like the only thing we are harvesting on the moon in this scenario is the sunlight.
There has to be a lighter and less complicated way to get calories to the moon.
It's all about energy. The shorter the food chain. the less energy is wasted. I'm pretty sure no soil is hauled to Moon, but the cultivation is aquatic.
I just wonder if veggies have a status of preference on astronaut candidates.
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the choice of salad is actually ingenious - the chief costs in space exploration is the fuel required to lift everything out of the earth's gravity well, so anything that saves weight is helpful; and of course vegetarians tend to be skinnier...
Does this really save weight? I don't know much about gardening but how much soil are we shipping to the moon to grow these crops and how long will that soil be viable? You can't make something from nothing and it seems like the only thing we are harvesting on the moon in this scenario is the sunlight.
There has to be a lighter and less complicated way to get calories to the moon.
It's all about energy. The shorter the food chain. the less energy is wasted. I'm pretty sure no soil is hauled to Moon, but the cultivation is aquatic.
I just wonder if veggies have a status of preference on astronaut candidates.
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