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And people think we're gonna colonize mars. We can't even colonize the south pole, a much more hospitable environment.
And people think we're gonna colonize mars. We can't even colonize the south pole, a much more hospitable environment.
This is part of what I think of as the Martian fallacy, the idea that stuff that's hard to do on Earth somehow becomes easier on Mars.
I wonder how much trouble keeping chickens in the greenhouse would be. I feel like some partially agua culture setup that’s closed loop and consumes the compost could work well, but is probably too expensive in terms of heated square footage to make sense.
I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.
I want to know who got that egg, and how they decided. Egg lottery?
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I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.
Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting, so how would they come in contact with something that could harm humans?
I think there still an issue of cross contamination with things that don't grow on humans or objects, but love chickens in the air or incidental dusts.
And people think we're gonna colonize mars. We can't even colonize the south pole, a much more hospitable environment.
The south pole IS colonized. There is literally a colony there since 1956
As far as I know, the only country to try colonizing Antarctica proper has been Argentina, with a small number of families settling at Esperanza Base (at the north end of the Antarctic Penninsula) and a big fuss made about the first kids born on the Antarctic mainland.
Chile maintains a little civilian settlement called Villa Las Estrellas on an offshore Antarctic island with similar motives as the Argentines. Everyone else just ignores this embarrassing rivalry.
What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.
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I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.
Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting, so how would they come in contact with something that could harm humans?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.