Re: food from space


"Mike Combs" <mikecombs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fuqm6i$i59$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maybe. I tend to expect that food grown in space will become economical for sale to space dwellers long before it becomes economical for sale to Earth; given that if the market is space dwellers, the only competition you have to undersell is food rocketed up from Earth. Space food fired off to Earth would have to compete with Earth food.

But in the long run... many decades into the space settlement era... maybe. Perhaps if that Yellowstone supervolcano goes off and global agriculture collapses it could be that food will rain down from HEO.

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Regards,
Mike Combs

Several blue tuna fishery-stations in space the size of space colonies -- but customized to the specific purpose -- would serve a purpose you're aren't thinking about but should be. Personally, I'd like the product from the shrimp farms in space. Even more particularly, the product from the anchovie growers. I don't know about the others, though they are getting harder to find on the shelves, but the blue tuna is so popular in a world that can afford it better today that it is being eaten to extinction.

Goats and chickens, grains and fruits and vegetables and the like, will not be the only life production of specialized colony structures in space.

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So let's farm blue tuna on Earth instead. Not going to happen! So much is not going to happen in or on a world that does not have a whole universe of vast and opening frontiers keeping it more open as an integral part of the bigger system. That world being in implosion instead of explosion....it being a [concentration] camp world where growing interest on the principal of life cannot be an option. Thus the principal will not keep.

GLB

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