/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15716225
Would help with getting a ballpark idea but the colonists will need to do stuff like expand the colony, run industry, do logistics and have areas for science and research. They'll need way more than the space the average submariner has.

Also the colonists will in most cases not have the same mental hardiness that soldiers have so they'll need more physical space and alone rooms to "cool off" from interpersonal interactions.


>>15716296
>with state of the art aquaponics, you can go as low as 30m^3 per person by growing super dwarf wheat in racks
>if you tap-off sabatier reactors, subsist on synthetic margarine and glycerol as sweetener, grow bacterial sludge for protein, throw in bunch of supplement as pills, you don't need much space at all to survive
Interesting but I don't think we can go that cheap. The first 100k-300k colonists must be convinced to go to space to establish the colonies/bases and if all the food they'll ever have will be bread and protein slime I don't we'll get many volunteers.

We'll need to have space for actual farms with cattle animals to get beef and eggs. Aquaponics will be used for plant-based food so that can lower total space needed compared to regular farming.

>>15164008
>global cooling kills even more people
>yet activists are still calling for more co2 emission cuts
When will the green lobby realize that we need a warmer planet so that less people die from cold?