Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories

gollum123 writes "CNN and others are reporting that food is running so low aboard the international space station that both the crew members have been asked to cut their calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks. The situation is so bad that if a Russian cargo vessel scheduled to arrive on Dec. 25 has a mishap or is significantly delayed, the astronauts, one American and one Russian, will have to abandon the station and return home months ahead of schedule. An independent team is looking into how the food inventory ended up being tracked so poorly and how it can be improved in the future."

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Fantastic

[Chuck Chunder]

Mod that fucker up!

there is no measureable total weight loss

[dominux]

there is a bit lost as heat, e=mc^2 and all that, but the humans are converting edible food, into non edible waste. The weight of the food+humans+waste is constant. Apart from that the weight of an orbiting object is pretty irrelevant unless it is very very big. (like a twin planet system)