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<font face="verdana">Food for 7: 500-Days on Mars... Resource Requirements<br /><br />I have not started analyzing the above topic yet; however, I am interested in opening deliberations, and debates, if necessary, in the matter. The following is what I am thinking:<br /><br />Short-Term Solutions:<br /><br />1) Intravenous (IV) Feeding<br /><br />2) Lunch Sack (Pack it in)<br />- MRE (Two Per Day Per Person) 7000lbs.<br />- 1-gallon; drinking water (one per day per person) 3500lbs.<br /><br />Long-Term Solutions:<br /><br />Biosphere<br /> - Human waste for Martian plant fertilizers.<br /><br />Q & A: How; When; Where; Why?<br /><br />Nutritional Requirements?<br />Weight?<br />Volume?<br />Means?<br /><br />The following is where I pulled 500-days from:<br /><br /><font color="orange">One of NASA’s reasons for going back to the Moon is to demonstrate that astronauts can essentially “live off the land” by using lunar resources to produce potable water, fuel and other valuable commodities. Such capabilities are considered extremely important to human expeditions to Mars which, because of the distances involved, would be much longer missions entailing a <font color="white">minimum of 500 days spent on the planet’s surface</font>( REF#14811891874 ).</font><br /></font>