Chikens and rabbits and goats, oh my!

If you haven't already, you really need to buy "L5: First City in
Space". A certain amount of screen time is devoted to showing little
Cheiko among the goats, chicks, and fish being raised in the agriculture
torus. In keeping with the Keith/Carolyn Henson work, she mentions that
they don't keep very many cows because they take up too much space.

http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/links.htm#L5-FCiS

Say, while I'm on the topic of "L5"...

On the entry for this movie in the Internet Movie DataBase at
http://imdb.com/title/tt0116811/, the review which is featured on the
main page is not very favorable. For a lot of people, the IMDB is the
place to go to decide if a movie is worth buying or not. There are four
reviews in all. Two are unfavorable, and two (including mine) are
favorable. I voted for the other favorable review (Ian Woollard's), and
against the unfavorables ones. For a brief period, that caused Ian's
review to move up to the main page, but I see that situation has
reversed itself again. (Ranking is based on votes, if that wasn't
clear.)

If you agree with me that the High Frontier approach to space settlement
is a promising one, and would like to see it promoted better, let's all
go to this page and vote for the positive reviews, and against the
negative ones. I don't care if it's my review or Ian Woollard's that
makes it to the main page; I just want to get the negative one off of it
since I feel it could discourage a lot of people from buying the DVD who
might have otherwise.

Regards,

Mike Combs

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Felicia
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:24 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Chikens and rabbits and goats, oh my!

>> This is quite true. That was why my initial vision had been to have
>> a mostly vegetarian diet on the stations.
>
> I'd certainly assume that, and that most protein came from crabs etc,
> maybe some fish. I think air-breathing animals would be very hard to
> keep.

Yes, I had planned to have various forms of aquaculture on the stations
to supplement the vegetarian diet. I can certainly see the desirability
of having milk and eggs, though. I expect that you would need a much
smaller number of animals for milk and eggs than you would if you were
planning on eating the animals. However, keeping a station of 2 to 10
million people in eggs and milk would require a fairly large number of
animals. I'm going to have to seriously think about that. -- Felicia