Space Agriculture
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Space Agriculture
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| The implementation of farming techniques in a micro and null gravity environment. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| It is inconvenient, cumbersome, and risky to send copious amounts of food on every manned flight, while for our stations to remain dependent on supply drops from Earth is short-term thinking in the extreme. It is paramount that space-based personnel can grow their own food, even in environments with little-to-no gravity and a hostile atmosphere. Closed Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) are our best hope here; in other words, a sealed loop, which creates both food and oxygen, while requiring only light, power, and human personnel. The carbon dioxide exhaled by the latter is transformed into oxygen by plants, while their urine and waste-water is recycled into drinking water, and their excrement and food waste is used to grow the nutrient-rich plants. Such systems have been pursued without success for decades, but the creation of a new strain of fast-growing, protein-rich algae has finally yielded the breakthrough we need. In time, we will be able to vary our astronauts' diets by introducing leafy plants and even fish farms, which will make long-term off-planet habitation that much more comfortable. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Extended Space Survival | (100%)Fuel Cell II • (100%)Hydroponics Bay | |||||||||||||||||
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| "My family had this farm in Mississippi. You name it, they grew it - corn, soybeans, cotton ... There was so much to do, day and night. It wasn't the life I wanted, but it did teach me that you have to work hard if you want to nurture a living thing into the very best version of itself." Superior Judith Howell, The Servants Interview from the podcast Eighth Chakra | ||||||||||||||||||
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