On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:13AM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote: >* One option would be to eat fish, kelp and all > that. Not exactly exciting, and it comes from > the alien biosphere - does it include all > necessary nutrients and nothing harmful?
If the "nothing harmful" problem can be solved, it may well be a useful source of bulk and energy (and dietary variation) even if it doesn't contain all the relevant amino acids and vitamins. >* The next option is halfway traditional farming > on floating platforms. The published rules for > farm modules are for space stations, 50,000 cf > and 400,000 lbs. per person. Doing it in open > air should be easier, but how much? Hm. Given that life support is a separate cost anyway, probably not _much_ easier. Perhaps one might look into the numbers for subsistence agriculture as a baseline. >* Finally, total life support provides food as > well as air. It is available from TL7 up, at > 200 cf and 2,000 lbs. per person or less. The > rules don't really say if that is algae glop > or truly edible food, but I guess the quality > depends on the TL. It might well be easiest to combine this for the vital things with local diet for interest and bulk. Roger _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
