Orbitting farmlands

[CreatedEvolution]

I found a fun number crunch for this idea.

The moon is 14.6 million square miles surface area. Or 406 trillion square feet. If we were to have a craft expand to 10 layers at 20x50 ft we get 10,000 square feet a craft

406 trillion/10000 = 40.6 billion crafts orbitting to equal the surface of the moon

If the craft could expand to 10 layers of 100x100 feet that is 1 million square feet

406 trillion/ 1 million = 406 million orbitting crafts to equal the surface of the moon.

In my drawings of what ifs I have many crafts connecting together to utilize natural rotation as artificial gravity such as 100 crafts could form one OFFA “orbiting farm for all”

 

[COLGeek]

14.6 square miles? Seems off. I think you are missing the million.

 

[CreatedEvolution]

Ty

 

[Greg Ackerson]

Vertical farming, while expensive, would still be much more affordable than orbital agriculture. Look into what Singapore is doing. (talk about not having any space! No pun intended) Vertical farming on an industrial scale could feed trillions of people.

 

[Classical Motion]

Vertical area in the state of Colorado, could house the world's population.

 

[Classical Motion]

I have no idea if that is true now. But I heard it many times in my younger years. And not to mention the limping problem.

 

[COLGeek]

I have no idea if that is true now. But I heard it many times in my younger years. And not to mention the limping problem.

A smaller space than that is needed. Go back to the first page of this thread.

 

[Classical Motion]

Pardon me. The Colorado scenario was 5 acres per household. Thanks for the reminder and update.

 

[CreatedEvolution]

Like I stated earlier I started by theorizing vertical farms but I realized space is limited. In orbit space is potentially a lot more than taking up valuable farmland that could be used for housing.

I never thought it would be a next day or year application. I figured we would explore the method and if we find a cost effective solution. We have a lot more farmable space to feed a 100 billion population if ever needed.

Food resources and land for housing is what I consider all modern wars are fought over. If we have excess for the entire planet perhaps we could maintain peace.

 

[CreatedEvolution]

in my old drawing concept. The crafts form together and they rotate end over end creating artificial gravity

 

[Atlan0001]

Peace is nothing more nor less than interlude between wars!

By far the best of all wars is the one to conquer and open the next frontier and, thus, frontier renaissance civilization.

The worst, most catastrophically disastrous war (most apocalyptic), is the 'Dark Age' one for a more perfectly savage noble Utopia (Orwellian 'Dystopia' / Huxleyan 'Brave New World') in place in the 'nest' or womb-world (in "Home Alone")!

 

[CreatedEvolution]

I truly believe in humanity to become immortal to the point where death is an option for everyone. A place of nurture and love where beings would want to experience human life in its entirety. That is my vision of peace. And I consider it a necessity for other beings to welcome us as safe and intelligent race.

As of now we have a chaos theory and don’t know much. I believe there are watchers like ancient text. Waiting for us to evolve or maybe even fail to give a new species a chance at evolution.