/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4960251]

What would be the best thing to grow on a hydroponic farm in zero gravity?

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4960259]

weed
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[Anonymous No.4960275]

Corn, the most sophisticated crop on the planet. Not that wuss ass sweet corn that Europeans eat either but a proper indigenous corn treated with nixtamalization like hominy (without this process you'll get all sorts of malnutrition and could succumb to a bunch of disease outbreaks as did many Europeans who started farming corn but didn't nixtamalize).

Also beans and squash.

[Anonymous No.4960282]

[Anonymous No.4960288]

>>4960259
>smoking at 0G

That would be an intense trip.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4960295]

>>4960288
i know, rite!

btw, so is going swimming :D

[Anonymous No.4960321]

FRANKS AND BEANS!

[Anonymous No.4960323]

Meat

[Anonymous No.4960326]

>>4960288
>smoking
>tripping

what

[Anonymous No.4960341]

>>4960326

Never heard of DMT? Or PCP? Or dare I say even marijuana(yes, it is a psychoactive drug that can and will cause hallucinations)? Or the multitude of other hallucinogens that can be smoked?

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4960342]

>>4960326
can kind of use 'tripping' as a synonym for any drug experience, not just hallucinating
but some types are actually a bit trippy, actually
not like on the level of shrooms, but still a bit.

[Anonymous No.4960346]

And another potentially interesting science thread got derailed by EK's shitposting.

[Anonymous No.4960347]

>zero-gee agriculture

Does it even work? I thought plants used gravity extensively in their growth.

[Anonymous No.4960352]

>>4960295
>>4960342
>>4960288
Junior bakers confirmed.
You don't "trip" on weed.
Spare yourselves the embarrassment now and stop using that word

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4960354]

>>4960347
nah, they can still grow.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/122510/growing_plants_in_zero_gravity/

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4960358]

>>4960352
the term is usually 'high' but if people wanna say 'trip' then im not aspie enough to start getting buttmad over it.
also: >>4960341

>"Or dare I say even marijuana(yes, it is a psychoactive drug that can and will cause hallucinations)"

so you can say 'trip', and it's sometimes accurate.

[Anonymous No.4960373]

>>4960275
True indigenous wild corn the way it was before human control (teosinte) is on the left. Maize is on the right. Hybrid in the middle.

Corn is a big plant and requires a lot of space. I would say some kind of bio-engineered algae would be best, purely for production of O2.

Also, it's hard to say how things will grow in 0G. Plants are very dependent on specific factors to grow, one being gravity (vegetation up, roots down), others being sunlight and water.

[Anonymous No.4960410]

>>4960373

In retrospect I had poor word choice. I should've said corn grown by the original indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. Modern corn grown nowadays throughout the US and Canada is mostly a GMO variety of Sweet Corn. It has little nutritional value (not because it's GMO, just because of the variety of corn) and largely useless as a food source, not to mention you'd have to get a license from monsanto to grow it lest you want to be sued for copyright infringement.

Teosinte is a cousin of corn that was not domesticated very much. Though yea, it's more or less what original corn looked like before the Indigenous Americans started breeding it.

It's a very good staple food in combination with beans and squash, and the three have been historically grown together in what's called a Milpa. Which provides a number of benefits in terms of not only nutrition but also space efficiency and soil nutrient efficiency. The mesoamericans called them "The Three Sisters" for this reason.

You're probably right about 0G making them grow all fucked up though. Maybe mostly underground plants like beans and potatoes wouldn't grow fucked up in space? As far as choosing a variety of beans or potatoes, that's well beyond me. For potatoes you'd have to ask someone from Peru or from that crazy island near chile, they have 500+ and 400+ varieties of potatoes each respectively (different ones have different flavors, nutritional values, colors, sizes, and are capable of growing in very different environments).

[Anonymous No.4960411]

>>4960342
>>4960295
Please get the fuck out of here, you are the definition of a shitposter

[Anonymous No.4960447]

on efficient nutrion production
http://www.wesolveforx.com/#t=t&n=ee7350c5

[Anonymous No.4960462]

In the common vernacular of drug users

Drugs that get you "high
>weed (marijuana, cannibis)
>crack
>speed

Drugs that will make you "trip"
>acid
>dmt
>mescaline
>shrooms

[Anonymous No.4960472]

>>4960288 here

What a mess. English is not even my first language. I use "trip" to anything that makes my mind travel. Like weed. I didn't know you were so restrictive about the term.

[Anonymous No.4960484]

>>4960447

[Anonymous No.4960498]

>>4960484
another video about the
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCHiyTsLkJc#t=53m40s

[Flibble !Prb3WfhoI6 No.4960517]

>>4960484
>>4960498
I sense an irish potato famine scenario.

[Anonymous No.4960528]

I always hear people say that you hallucinate while under the influence of cannabis. I just wanted to know what people define as hallucinations because I have never believed this to be true.

[Morpheus34 No.4961143]

>>4960251
I would assume herbs or simple salad greens, if you're looking for a quick output with limited growing room.

[Anonymous No.4961195]

>>4960528

From what I've experienced I've seen merging patterns, light streaks, altered vision as a whole like vibrant colors, and altered time perception brings it's own experiences like seeing things speed up and slow down. It's all pretty subtle I suppose if you've done heavy hallucinogens.

There only hallucinogen I've tried is salvia so maybe it brings "flashbacks" of sorts to that but I have nothing else to compare them to. I'd still consider that all very mild hallucinations as it's not normal perception.

[Anonymous No.4961261]

God fuck you druggies