Will all future astronauts have to be vegetarians? Or is there some way you can also sustain animal life out there that would then be edible? Nassa's actually thinking a lot about this. Fungus, i mean mushrooms or ar r are occasionally described as being meaty. Maybe that would be the compromise between a pure vegetarian diet and one that would involve meat. Because portabell mushrooms taste meaty, do they? But it also helps with's concept of what do you do with all the vile mass that you can't eat directly? And so you funguses coun doand let's not forget about psychodelic mushooms. Just itsacas, being in space
Can you actually grow potatoes on Mars? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio explore how to grow plants in space and whether we can farm on the Moon and Mars with space biologists Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl.
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