David Scheidt wrote:
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.
Worth doing any way, even if they have to be domed. Fruits and Honey,
possible island avian ecology can be based (like new zealand's native
ecology). What makes it worth doing is they have secndary fuction as the
culture's parks.
Also the artificial islands but used as hanging platform for under water
functions as a secondary usage.
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