03-23-2018, 01:25 PM | #11 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
It doesn't have to be hydroponics, but it's basically closed system farming (unless the ship is very, very, very large).
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03-23-2018, 01:51 PM | #12 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
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03-23-2018, 02:17 PM | #13 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
It might be a tubular photobioreactor. The bunkertech write up was based (very loosely) on these.
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03-23-2018, 05:04 PM | #14 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
It's rather challenging coming up with an emergency for a spaceship that can be solved by farming, due to the time scale for emergencies killing you rarely being more than days, and the time scale for setting up farming without pre-existing infrastructure being months or more.
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03-23-2018, 07:09 PM | #15 | |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
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If it's a habitat, on the other hand, then it would probably have to qualify as "very, very, very large," for farming to be useful. :)
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03-23-2018, 07:23 PM | #16 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
If it's a true long-term habitat there's a good chance it has farming already (as part of its life support system).
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03-23-2018, 07:58 PM | #17 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
I think Veggie 03 is the latest micro G plant experiment to produce data. There are newer experiments but the data isn't in yet.
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03-25-2018, 08:37 AM | #18 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
There are already (somewhat disorganized, in several publications) GURPS supplements that cover farming up to TL4, so I'd say start at TL5 and go as high as you want.
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03-25-2018, 07:43 PM | #19 |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
I am rediscovering the head ache inducing amount of politics and interest groups that saturate the information on this topic.
A couple of bits of information. Automotive waste oil can be used to treat external parasites in pigs. Also the absolute best wheat production today is something like 30 times more productive than early TL 3, which out performs "essential earth" by an order of magnitude. Which brings me around to "Does anyone want any notes on magic?"
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03-25-2018, 08:16 PM | #20 | |
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Re: Farming in difficult environments AtE and other worlds
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I'd say, start with the basics, and then use them as your baseline when you start to look at magic, at some point in the future.
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