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#1 2025-09-17 10:43:46
- Void
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New Food Sources. Precision Fermentation, Cellular, Synthetic
This one has to be big for Mars and for space in general:
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bu … -illinois/
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Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
chicago
By Tara Molina
Updated on: August 6, 2025 / 10:42 PM CDT / CBS Chicago
OK, they do have some additives:
"It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit of lecithin as an emulsifier, and some natural flavor and color," Beiden-Charles said.
OK, Lecithin, may come from animal or plant products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin
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Lecithin (/ˈlɛsɪθɪn/ LESS-ith-in; from the Ancient Greek λέκιθος lékithos "yolk") is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are both hydrophilic and lipophilic), and are used for smoothing food textures, emulsifying, homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.[1][2]
I am going to speculate that you could grow mushrooms on the Fatty substances they create.
So, for Mars if you make and froze a bunch of that, you would have calories and could grow mushrooms, which along with other frozen foods would get you by in an emergency.
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#2 2025-09-17 12:39:11
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#3 2025-09-18 09:49:25
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I thought I might add this: https://undecidedmf.com/why-mushrooms-a … verything/
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Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything
Matt FerrellBy Matt Ferrell June 24, 2025
Mycelium seems to be able to digest any solid or even liquid hydrocarbon, and post #1 suggests the creation of a butter like hydrocarbon. But of course, flavor is not required. I did mention Mushrooms in post #1 after all.
One thing I have in mind for Mars, is that if you cut sandstone blocks to create an underground vault, you might make arches on the surface of the sandstone blocks, and you might seal the chinks between the stones using mycelium, if you fed the mycelium.
You would probably make the stone structure with the food in the chinks, and then pile regolith on top and then pressurize and heat the insides and add humidity.
I am planning to suggest how to make heat exchangers/storage by a similar process and plastics on the Moon.
Anyway, it seems that we will want to have the fungus among us when we go into space.
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#4 2025-09-19 06:17:08
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Re: New Food Sources. Precision Fermentation, Cellular, Synthetic
Void, that is an excellent find. On Mars, we won't be able to afford thousands of acres of pasture land for cattle. An energy efficient process for manufacturing fats in a compact facility will be essential for survival on Mars.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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#5 2025-09-19 08:13:16
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Calliban, Agreed! And Tony Seba and RethinkX indicate that much of our farmland on Earth will go back to wild or feral or (I say, managed feral).
Precision Fermentation, Cellular, Synthetic, will be vastly more efficient it seems.
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