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Why can't Ceres be supplied with real beans along with their real rice? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In Leviathan Wakes, Miller is shown eating fake beans with real rice. But why? My knowledge of agriculture is below zero but I feel like if you can supply real dried rice in space you could also supply real dried beans as well.

An hour later, his blood warm with drink, he heated up a bowl of real rice and fake beans—yeast and fungus could mimic anything if you had enough whiskey first

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If i had to guess I would say it likely comes down to how the rice and bean plants fair in low G. If they're eating real rice and fake beans I would think its because the rice is either grown on or near ceres as well as the yeast and fungus substitutes that make up the fake beans, whereas real beans would have to be imported in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I could see zero gravity making rice very space efficient to grow. Stacks on stacks of individual semi automated rice paddies