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Growing crops on the moon wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with being self-sufficient, right? Wouldn’t it just be a straightforward matter of whether se
by tshaddox 4y ago
Growing crops on the moon wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with being self-sufficient, right? Wouldn’t it just be a straightforward matter of whether sending the water and nutrients to grow crops would be cheaper than sending food grown on Earth?
- oneoff786 4y agoIt will be orders of magnitude cheaper to send food from earth. Growing crops requires time, water, nutrients, warmth sunlight, labor, and a lot space. I would wager that last one is the biggest issue but the others are non trivial. A starship heavy launch filled with food is ~$10M and is wayyy overkill.