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11-05-2010, 12:59 AM | #12 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
Veggies, tilapia, shellfish and algae would be a healthy diet!
All the inputs it would require, and this is important, would be a little water, power to pump the water, and food for the fish (which could be human waste I believe).
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11-05-2010, 01:47 AM | #13 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
Can't forget light, and you'll probably want to put some carbon into the system as CO2 rather than exclusively as fish food.
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11-05-2010, 02:14 AM | #14 |
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Yeah, I totally forgot light. I didn't have any real time to think about it, was busy on a tight schedule at work. Light would be very important!
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11-05-2010, 10:03 AM | #15 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
Plus it gives you pretty aquariums on your ship. And all that water is good radiation shielding, probably want to wrap it around at least a storm shelter, or maybe the hab if you can afford that much mass.
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11-05-2010, 11:48 AM | #16 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
And liguistically we'd get to replace "canary in a coal mine" with "guppy in the rad shield" (or something like that).
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11-05-2010, 12:12 PM | #17 |
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11-05-2010, 12:29 PM | #18 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
That could probably be adjusted, if one wanted to use the fish as canaries. Though with perfectly good technologies for detecting radiation, it doesn't seem like that attractive a notion.
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11-05-2010, 12:45 PM | #19 |
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Re: Space Ship based Hydroponics
Say, how do fish manage in zero gravity? Have there been any long-term aquarium experiments done on the International Space Station or a Shuttle mission?
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11-05-2010, 12:50 PM | #20 | |
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+1 on the aquaponics suggestion, though i would intersperse a third tier with vermiculture. Feed waste to worms, feed worms to fish. Feed fish and veggies to crew, waste from crew, veggies and fish goes back to worms.
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