Re: OT NASA CHAPEA Mars Simulation.

"a425couple"  wrote in message news:ffjnO.141237$xL%[email protected]...

On 7/18/24 09:57, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 10/07/2024 05:39, Titus G wrote:
>>>
>> Four people in 1700 square feet for over a year? (If it was a SF story,
>> at least two of them would have gone mad or been killed.)
>> What about water? Gravity?
>
> There have been previous exercises.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
> :-)

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Creating a self-supporting ecosystem may require going back to the rural 
past:
https://edepot.wur.nl/58719

Note that they built the proverbial two-story outhouse.

Even in town, farmers' houses in rural Germany had pigs under the house and 
a "Misthaufen" compost/dung heap outside. Patton commented that the size of 
the heap was a status symbol. I never noticed any smell, unlike cow or sheep 
manure.

https://clivusmultrum.com/what-we-do.php

https://www.mmsd.com/about-us/milorganite
"Milorganite® is actually a bag of dried microbes (not poop)!"

The concept lends itself to a simple DIY greenhouse operation, though that 
may not be enough to qualify for a government grant.