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Space Beef
Grow livestock in orbital farms for those extra tender cuts. | |
Cattle are to be birthed and raised in the low-gravity environment of a rotating space station. The amount of artificial gravity should be high enough so that the cattle do not end up emaciated and lacking muscle, but low enough so that they live a lifestyle with significantly less stress than they
would experience as terrestrial mammals. In addition to organic grain, the cattle are also fed beer while they receive massages and classical music serenades. After they have been raised, they are transferred via a rocket-cattle-car to an orbital abattoir for slaughter. Finally, the carcasses are delivered to earth in a refrigerated compartment of a space shuttle.
This idea would be an excellent challenge for a start-up spaceflight company.
Hydroponics on ISS
http://www.nasa.gov...xperiments/863.html
ISS has a lettuce garden. 10 months in, no results reported yet. [lurch, Feb 15 2015]
Baked?
https://www.youtube...watch?v=MZzJGM661D0
Nope. My bad, just exsanguinated... not baked at all. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 15 2015]
Space Meat!
http://youtu.be/2k0OLahG7ok
[21 Quest, Feb 17 2015]
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Has anyone grown grass in orbit yet? |
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If they have, then I wonder why the ISS doesn't have a garden, if only to reprocess CO2 back into O2. |
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Cows don't eat grain, they eat grass. Perhaps you are thinking of locusts? |
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I like this but ramp up those Gs. These Heavyworld
steers will ripple with excess salable muscle! |
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But the lightworld cows will produce creamier milk. |
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//When the earth was spinning faster and G was
less// We did this already, didn't we? |
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Why not just place into decaying orbit all the carnivorous idiots who eat meat? That way, world food shortages are ended, as is 90% of global warming and us much smarter vegetarians can watch the nightly "meteor showers of the idiots" as we like to call them. (relaxes with a beer and a vege burger - non Frankenstein Agent Orange GM version of course) |
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I think you probably mean "omnivorous". |
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//Why not just place into decaying orbit all the
carnivorous idiots who eat meat?// |
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Hear hear! That would leave more room for us
carnivorous smart people to grow more beef - which
is wasted on idiots. Well said, [xen]. |
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Incidentally, have they figured out how to make vege
burgers without using panda rennet yet? |
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//That way, world food shortages are ended, as is 90% of
global warming and us much smarter vegetarians can
watch the nightly "meteor showers of the idiots"// |
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You get rid of the worst offenders and celebrate! |
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Wait, you realize that the beer is conspicuous
consumption right? For the same environmental impact
you could have much more effective use of the grain by
consuming it unprocessed. The bottle/can, those useless
hops, the whole transport network.... just so much
waste. Once the meat eaters are gone, the holier-than-
thou puritan crowd will be looking for a new target. Beer
drinkers will be right up there... and you're eating a
veggie burger. Tut tut. Those veggies could have been
eaten unprocessed. They'll be shooting into space all
those who eat more than gruel. |
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Never mind beer. Try getting people off coffee. |
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//getting people off coffee.// |
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//Cows don't eat grain, they eat grass.// |
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Grass-fed beef cows eat grass. If cows will eat corn, then I'm sure
they can eat grain. |
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First they came for the people who ate meat, and I did nothing, because I did not eat meat. |
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Then they came for the people that drank beer, and I did nothing, because I did not drink beer. |
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Then they came for the people that drink coffee, and I did nothing, because I did not drink coffee. |
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Then they came for the people that write these silly sayings, and I |
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X beyond the frontier was the first pc game to have beef farms, wheat farms and bakery in space. They were used to make crystals, crystals to make energy cell. All factories needed energy cells. Space based farming sounds great. We just need a shield generator or all that beef will mutate and you may get two headed Brahman. |
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