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Originally posted by flipflop
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Umm! I see corn in that image,humans digest the inner part of corn but the outer shell part, we cannot digest that, and as every little bit of space counts regarding weight etc, and I know that is not much weight but it does occupy some room in a packet that could be replaced with something we do digest, or is that too trivial to bother with something like that,
Source
Indigestible But Beneficial
Although corn's bran coat passes through your gastrointestinal tract without breaking down, this dietary fiber provides health-related benefits. The cellulose in corn bran absorbs water, which keeps your stool soft and promotes regular bowel movements...
Originally posted by flipflop
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
think that is what I said in my post, but thanks for that anyway
Originally posted by MysterX
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Personally, eating on a long space journey seems a little primitive and wasteful in terms of space and weight.
Surely, there ought to be a process by now where the sugars, amino acids, vitamins and minerals are simply packaged into an IV or similar to delivered directly into the bloodstream, eliminating eating and the waste from eating in one go.
There's my recipe idea...a nice bag of amino acids and the rest of it packaged into a nice small IV package...no waste, no food boredom..no food at all in fact.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Nope, never happen. Sorry. It is all smoke and mirrors. Like the Moon, it will become too expensive or too something-else when we get to that point in time when it becomes possible. At that time, there will be other proposals which appear more attractive.
If you can send a man to Mars, why not send a man to the Moon? See...? It will never happen and I'll bet my boxers that we never get a man to Mars.
I understand that many of the same problems exists to feed men on the Moon as on Mars or anywhere else in space for that matter, so the exercise is not useless, but you guys getting all fired up about sending men out there **is** completely useless.
Originally posted by qmantoo
Similar to Red Dwarf TV series perhaps.
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by MysterX
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Personally, eating on a long space journey seems a little primitive and wasteful in terms of space and weight.
Surely, there ought to be a process by now where the sugars, amino acids, vitamins and minerals are simply packaged into an IV or similar to delivered directly into the bloodstream, eliminating eating and the waste from eating in one go.
There's my recipe idea...a nice bag of amino acids and the rest of it packaged into a nice small IV package...no waste, no food boredom..no food at all in fact.
I think not eating at all would lead to a type of food boredom and low morale. Humans have a desire to eat food/taste food/feel food in their stomachs.
Originally posted by teachtaire
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
This was possible and done in 1959.
Closed biological systems are fact, not fiction.
A manned expedition being able to independently produce food is a necessity, not a luxury.
This is inarguable.