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Food on Mars

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Types of food: From earth For emergency use only. For use prior to any food being made on Mars. Intended as supplemental food to be used in addition to initial food production on Mars. For celebrations and special occasions. Grown on Mars Plants squarerootsgrow (vertical garden) https://squarerootsgrow.com Animals Fish aquaponics Chicken eggs Beef Dairy Insects livinfarms (insects as protein) https://www.livinfarms.com Fungus Synthetic Cell-free Synthesis of Starch from CO2 cell-free-synthesis-of-starch-from-co2-with-8-5-fold-higher-efficiency-than-nature Scientists Make Food From Bacteria, Water, Electricity, and a

Weight suit on mars

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Mars gravity is 38% that of Earth. What might that mean for you as a long term Mars resident and how might you cope while in space and throughout your stay on Mars. Reduced gravity and your health If you’ve ever taken an extended break from your regular workout routine, like an entire year plus during covid, then you’ll have noticed that it’s quite different getting back into it compared to when you were just maintaining. Reintroducing yourself to working out can be pretty horrible. If you don't workout while on your way to Mars your body will adjust to being in space and by the time you arive you'll be incredibly weakened. Similarly, if you don't exercise on Mars then a return to earth could leave you medically nonfunctional. In space You’re going to go through that when you arrive planet side after any interplanetary voyage. What can be done about it in space is fairly well studied. Nasa has several machines that can be used in zero g and the

Base 60 currency

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Spacer calendar - space-faring civilization - proposed calendar system - metric base 60

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Date Countdown Spacer calendar space-faring civilization proposed calendar system metric base 60 (For this I'm ignoring time dilation or things like barycentric dynamical time.) Specifications: Spacer - metric time - base 60 Basically a metric calendar that’s base 60 instead of base 10 and based on the day as the primary time unit. Merely because human circadian rhythm is evolved to be adapted to the length of an earth day. 1 day x 60 x 60 x 60 = 1 spacer millennium (600 spacer years, approx 591.4 earther years). 1 day x 60 x 60 = 1 spacer decade (10 spacer years, 360 spacer days each, approx 9.86 earther years). 1 day x 60 = 1 spacer month (60 earther days, approx 2 earther months). 1 spacer day = 1 earther day (except it’s rigidly defined with no leap seconds). 1 day / 60 = 1 spacer hour = 0.4 earther hours (24 earther minutes). 1 day / 60 / 60 = 1 spacer minute = 0.4 earther minutes