Sci/Tech Lettuce eat: First space-grown vegetables on the menu for NASA astronauts

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NASA astronauts are preparing to eat the first crop of fresh food grown in space — red romaine lettuce.

International Space Station (ISS) crew members will sample the "Outredgeous" lettuce grown as part of NASA's plant experiment Veg-01 in the Veggie plant growth system.

Giving new meaning to "clean eating", astronauts must first clean the leafy greens with citric acid-based, food-safe sanitizing wipes before tucking in.

But only half the space harvest will be eaten, with the remainder to be packaged and frozen before being returned to Earth for scientific analysis.

Veg-01 forms a critical part of NASA's Journey to Mars, enabling crew to grow and eat their own food on long-duration exploration missions.

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Lettuce eat: Space-grown vegetables on the menu for astronauts

NASA astronauts are preparing to take their first bites of fresh food grown in space — red romaine lettuce.
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Mahucharn said:
I don't think that's how that works, but I don't know enough about it to dispute it.
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Dude its simple as fuck.
First you grow lettuce. Then you get some cattle that will feed on the lattuce. Then you make the cattle breed. Then you fucking eat the cattle.
Circlejerk of life bitches!
 
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We need to cut out the middleman and find a meat source that feeds on our shit that's made of its meat. That's called efficiency.
 
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We need to cut out the middleman and find a meat source that feeds on our shit that's made of its meat. That's called efficiency.
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Yo mamma!
(You asked for it!)
 
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*Preferably more delicious than flies and less offensive than my mamma.
 
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Maggots aren't too bad if you cook them up. I mean, it's not an ideal food source, but fuck, a lot of people eat stuff like this. Never tried to eat an adult fly though, I think that would be harder.
 
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Yeah, never tried 'em so I can't say shit. I've heard they can be good. What with cows and grocery stores and America and all, I haven't needed to eat them, and I'm not one to eat weird shit just for the sake of it so I'll have to set that plan aside for space travel.
 
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Well, yeah, they aren't very good in comparison to a sirloin or a box of five minute pasta, but in a situation more situated around survival and not luxury they are a prominent source of protein that is easy to procure and manifests quickly. I'm sure if you put some meat out to rot in space a fucking fly would somehow find it.
 
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