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A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com) 134

MarkWhittington writes: In the hit movie, The Martian, stranded astronaut Mark Watney famously survives on Mars by creating a potato garden using Martian soil mixed in with composted human excrement. According to a story in CNET, NASA believes that the movie is on the right track as far as astronauts growing their own food on long-duration space missions. However, some caveats exists concerning how the film depicted space agriculture.

Comment Re:How big are these trains? (Score 2) 515

Take Shinkansen for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... "Between Tokyo and Osaka, the two largest metropolises in Japan, up to thirteen trains per hour with sixteen cars each (1,323-seat capacity) run in each direction with a minimum headway of three minutes between trains." That's over 50,000 people per hour so why does 50,000 per day seem unlikely?

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