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Researchers free from dome home
mauinews ^ | August 14, 2013 | JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER

Posted on 08/14/2013 8:59:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin

HONOLULU - Six researchers have spent the past four months living in a small dome on a barren Hawaii lava field at an elevation of 8,000 feet, trying to figure out what foods astronauts might eat on Mars and during deep-space missions.

They emerged Tuesday with their recipes and without the spacesuits they were required to wear each time they ventured onto the northern slope of Mauna Loa...

Members did their cooking in a two-story dome with small sleeping quarters, an exercise room and of course, a kitchen.

Team commander Angelo Vermeulen said Tuesday that the problem with ingredients that aren't perishable is they're usually highly processed and lack fiber. He said he was impressed with how freeze dried products taste very similar to fresh produce.

(Excerpt) Read more at mauinews.com ...


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1 posted on 08/14/2013 8:59:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

You know they’re lying, because it’s impossible to ration Nutella.


2 posted on 08/14/2013 9:20:09 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

That is some good stuff!


3 posted on 08/14/2013 9:22:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

How can they say with a straight face that they examined all possibilities when there is no evidence of a Vegemite Sandwich on the menus? Or Lobster Po’Boy? Dessicated Escargo even? FRENCH FRIES (Freedom Fries) for goshsakes?


4 posted on 08/14/2013 9:33:19 PM PDT by Utilizer (Ba-con Ah'hkkba'aar! <- In muzlim world are only fast goats & slow boys. Slow goats all dead. ->)
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To: BenLurkin

He even sounds like a bloody french froggie! Hey! Sans Merci! You call that a “French” pic du saelec -tion?


5 posted on 08/14/2013 9:36:26 PM PDT by Utilizer (Ba-con Ah'hkkba'aar! <- In muzlim world are only fast goats & slow boys. Slow goats all dead. ->)
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To: BenLurkin
"at an elevation of 8,000 feet"

How did they survive for such a long time at such a terribly high altitude with such brutal temperature swings?

Pansies.


6 posted on 08/14/2013 9:58:58 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: BenLurkin
1. Were the spacesuits operational?
2. I could survive on Spam Musubi.
Don't know how long my kidneys or liver could...
7 posted on 08/14/2013 11:04:43 PM PDT by real saxophonist (If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unnecessary.)
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To: BenLurkin

They must have emerged with the trots.... :-)


8 posted on 08/15/2013 2:23:07 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: BenLurkin

I the toilet in the dome was covered with a screen door, it would not have impeded movements.


9 posted on 08/15/2013 2:27:18 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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