Astronauts
apparently will need to eat sh*t (their own in recycled paste form)
on the way to Mars. Mars is a little over-sold these days. Building
on the moon might be better, yet plainly building man-size mobile
greenhouses that can be tugged along in space to grow fresh veggies
on the way to various moons and planets around the solar system is
more palatable than the idea of eating crap though Americans are too
used to getting that from both major political parties and NPR these
days. NASA evidently feels that astronauts also are ready to eat
their own waste products in the spirit of the government way of
treating the poor and middle class generally what with tax cuts for
the rich.
How
much intelligence does it really require to innovate better ways than
eating shit? Hopefully N.A.S.A. and Penn State won’t suggest cannibalism if anyone
dies in space as their next big idea. Growing squash as large as a moon may be possible in a micro-gravity greenhouse. Growing and towing some sort of turnip bigger than an office building in a mobile greenhouse alongside a piece of water-ice comet from the moon to Mars probably is better than eating crap.
