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Old 02-14-2019, 07:03 AM   #7
munin
 
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Hydroponics and food vats

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Originally Posted by Agemegos View Post
… It also implies that people require twice as much life support if they are in shared staterooms, twice that in unshared staterooms, twice that in luxury suites…
It's not that they require that much mass, it's that they're getting what they paid for. Bunkrooms get air from noisy factory fans, can't set temperature and maybe it varies with other power loads, cheap purification of water and air (strange smells and tastes), 30-second showers, etc. Luxury cabins get scented air, unlimited water, silent responsive climate control, self-cleaning ducts and pipes, etc. Actually, water reserves could be a significant factor in the difference in mass between different cabins (for example, 30 seconds of googling says a filled 8-person jacuzzi weighs 4 tons -- that's a quarter of a luxury cabin's "life support" right there).
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