Comments on: Mars needs seitan

By: rodstewart

rodstewart — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:48:00 +0000

But what happens when David Lister smuggles a cat into his quarters inside of the mining complex in which he is employed?

By: Jeremy Kalgreen

Jeremy Kalgreen — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:03:00 +0000

Exactly, I’ve seen a lot of commenters that don’t seem to get that there are perfectly good reasons for this completely divorced from ideology or judgment.

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:30:00 +0000

What would the pigs eat? Scrub Holum ?

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:37:00 +0000

No slightly stale Cadbury Cream Eggs.

As long as the chocolate shell is intact and kept at a fairly stable temperature and humidity they keep for a fairly long time.

I’m still eatting on some Cadbury “Scream” Eggs from Halloween….

By: ldobe

ldobe — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:15:00 +0000

Yours makes more sense. I just know that any ship to Mars would have medical supplies, and in the hospitals I’ve done IT work for, they keep glucose solution in 1liter IV bags just stored in closets all over the place.

It was premixed (I assume it’s better for emergencies that way). I suppose on a spaceship, you’d want to save the mass and volume.

By: Aloisius

Aloisius — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:07:00 +0000

Why wouldn’t you just transport solid glucose, fructose or sucrose? Seems kind of silly to mix it with water and then package it in little bags.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:37:00 +0000

Somebody will smuggle a ferret. Everybody knows that ferret owners don’t have to obey the rules.

By: ldobe

ldobe — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:08:00 +0000

You can drink glucose straight from the IV bags. It’s not half bad. It’s not candy necessarily, but it’s edible and sweet, and probably would be on a Mars bound ship.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:42:00 +0000

No Swedish Fish (probably).

No slightly stale Cadbury Cream Eggs.

Really, you can pretty much write off the entire Candy Hierarchy.

By: James Kimbell

James Kimbell — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:21:00 +0000

“They’re Made Out of Meat”

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:21:00 +0000

Also:

No pets.

No lying on the grass under open skies on a warm summer day.

No standing on the beach and seeing a seal bobbing up and down in the waves staring back at you.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:17:00 +0000

Until we learn to grow it in vats.

By: crankypage

crankypage — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:52:00 +0000

Maggie – current leader, Headline of the Year. Beautiful.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:48:00 +0000

Trying to appeal to the porcine expatriate crowd.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:39:00 +0000

Dissolving good red meat into crackers would be a terrible waste.

I’m talking To Serve Man, Hellas Basin Edition.

All those vegetables . . . well, you need them to boil along with the bones for soup stock, right?

By: franko

franko — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:37:00 +0000

“To Serve Man”

By: Jacob Ewing

Jacob Ewing — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:31:00 +0000

MMmmhmhmhmmm… Soylent Green….

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:29:00 +0000

Soylent green!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:25:00 +0000

Is this an indicator of what kind of dark kingdom is going to be established on Mars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eovuIfeH2k4

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:25:00 +0000

Of course, there WILL be a source of meat on Mars even if no one brings livestock.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:22:00 +0000

Yup. I think this is funny because it’s kind of being framed as “Boy, Elon Musk sure hates meat!”, when it’s really just logical (even to someone like me who loves bacon). Meat requires more resources to produce than plant-based food. When your resources are super limited …

By: Jacob Ewing

Jacob Ewing — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:17:00 +0000

Interesting. As self-indulgent as it first sounds, it makes sense if you consider how expensive meat really is.
Transporting it would cost a fortune (by mass alone, not to mention care if you want to bring it there alive). Also, even if you could afford to bring it there alive (maybe a few hundred chickens for breeding), meat is a very expensive and inefficient medium through which to get your energy. It adds another layer of lost energy, water, etc.

By: soylent_plaid

soylent_plaid — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:11:00 +0000

Careful Elon, we all know what happens when you mix Mars and seitan.

By: bodly

bodly — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:04:00 +0000

Guess I won’t be going to Mars.

By: franko

franko — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:02:00 +0000

whoohoo! my chances just increased. now i just need to scrape up $500,000
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