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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
Exactly what happens on your world is impossible to say with any accuracy as we only have one example of life to work with, so you have wide latitude. That said some observations can be made.
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
Whatever their form of hydroponics takes would be part of their mission equipment as a matter of course. They might supplement it with their version of vitamin pills but they'd need some sort of ...
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
Obliteration. Something has to eat sun and carbondioxide. It may be poisonous and full of heavy metall. But something on earth can eat it. Rats and roaches. And they take the brunt. Now filter out the ...
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
Adult humans are able to survive without any protein for some time. Only eating carbohydrates and fatty acids - both of these can be quite easily synthesized chemically or separated from local sources....
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
For a small number of people stored food is a better option. growing food takes a lot pf labor, especially a large enough variety of foods to keep humans productive. They might be producing a single ...
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