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		mc32 on Jan 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What the world will be like in a hundred years (19... If NASA[1] could have this, they would do this. They'd prefer it if they could give their *nauts pill-like nutrition delivery systems. [1] Also armed forced with deployed troops would love this too as it makes food logistics much easier.

ceejayoz on Jan 6, 2022 [–]

The closest we can get volume-wise is a cup of olive oil for about 2k calories. Stuffing any more calories into the same volume would require using materials we can't currently digest.

(NASA does not like the side-effects of an all-oil diet on space toilets, I suspect.)

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