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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
A group of scientists travels to a newly discovered planet shown to support life in the form of plants and animals. Obviously they can only bring so much food with them so at some point they would ...
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Long-term food preservation techniques [200-300 years, preferably in a form of MREs]
Question: How to preserve food (preferably in ready to eat form [MRE]) for 200-300 years on a spaceship?
Bonus objection: preserve viable seeds for the same period
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MREs should contain all ...
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Where would a technologically advanced group of people forced into space by a calamity obtain water from?
The fleet in my setting are forced to leave the planet due to a volatile virus, and leave in pre-prepared spacefaring vessels capable of transporting ten million people per ship. The ships have ...
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Can a human colony survive on a 'hot' world?
A colony ship headed for its new home countless light-years from Earth suffers an unfortunate malfunction on the final part of its descent phase and crashes onto the planet. Thankfully, the ship ...
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Adverse effects of reduced food variety on microbiome
We often see, in Sci-fi, food being produced from, say, algae or yeast. What could be the effect of such a limited diet on the gut microbiome? Would there be any believable side-effect that would have ...
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Which Cuisines Would Adapt Best To Space?
If you take all of earth's food and cuisines, which ones would be the mostly logically adapted to be made and eaten in a microgravity-freefall environment within the following constraints.
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Best Foods/Plants to Grow in Generational Spaceship?
Hopefully this isn't a duplicate; I wasn't able to find another question which addressed this, at any rate.
Let's say I have a generational spaceship going off to another solar system to establish a ...
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How to explain the lack of artificial pollination in space colonies?
My story is set in the future where space travel is cheap and humanity has colonized Mars and some parts of the asteroid belt. Asteroid colonies can grow their own staple food, but crops that require ...
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What edible organisms grown in hydroponics on Mars will create most complete diet?
NASA has sent a crew of 100 people on Mars to start a colony. The crew was in cryogenic sleep during their trip to save food and water. And after the 6-month journey, they have reached Mars. My ...
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How to tell what can I use in space bistro? [duplicate]
Imagine that humanity made a mining colony at some planet. This planet has its own biosphere.
One of the retired workers decides not to go back to Earth, but instead wants to open up a bistro, so ...
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Livestock vs frozen food for interplanetary travel to Saturn's moon
Set in the year 2216 C.E.
Imagine a spacecraft with a crew of twenty is leaving for Enceladus, moon of Saturn which is estimated 1.272 billions km away in a matter of months using the next generation ...
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The earth is flung into deep space
I've been reading the book Nomad, and in it
That's got me thinking, is there any chance of survival beyond a few days/weeks when the atmosphere freezes? (Would it freeze?)
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Which crops to save to best ensure survival?
You're in a group of colonists, headed to your new home on Tau Ceti e. Due to some crazy accidents aboard the ship, the diverse flora that was brought aboard (for food during the journey and for ...
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What are some technologies that could minimize the space it takes to support a space crew?
I'm designing a video game in which players command a small crew of aliens (10-20 of them) who are building an outpost on a planet. They are a bit larger than humans (around 2 meters tall) with about ...
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