On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Nigel Mccarty-Eigenmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> * 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? > > Pass. Much easier I'd think - were you thinking that they would have no > external input? No krill or seabed glop for fertiliser? Depends on weather, to some extent. One of my setting's major worlds is largely water, and hot. There's a moderate amount of agriculture on the surface land, but it's all in domes. The weekly cat 5 hurricanes make growing things outside unlikely. Water worlds are likely to have bad weather, which makes surface platforms hard to do. > >> * 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. > > Back in the day Gibson suggested algae fed on by shrimp fed on by catfish as > a food system in an arcology. > > And there is always slab meat :) or fish. If you have advanced medicine you > probably can clone tissue. If you can grow cloned flesh, why not meat? THS makes this TL 9, as I recall. There are also some algae strains that are pretty close to nutitonally complete. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
