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Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms
sciencehabit writes "Science reports that silkworms may be an ideal food source for future space missions. They breed quickly, require little space and water, and generate smaller amounts of excrement than poultry or fish. They also contain twice as many essential amino acids as pork does and four times as much as eggs and milk. Even the insect's inedible silk, which makes up 50% of the weight of the dry cocoon, could provide nutrients: The material can be rendered edible through chemical processing and can be mixed with fruit juice, sugar, and food coloring to produce jam."
"What's for dinner tonight, Dave?"
"Oh, I don't know, Frank, how about... MORE FU(#1NG WORMS!?"
"Just calm down and pass the worm jam."
With enough butter, anything can taste okay. The best part is their texture though. Nice and silky.
Hey if that works, they've got the solution to space travel all wrapped up!
Even better is the Spnife: round enough to hold soup, but sharp enough to slice your mouth.
so what do they taste like?? can we make them taste like bacon?
Last year I was in Korea where the streets are lined with vendors frying up silkworm pupae on the street as an, *ahem*, delicacy. The smell wafting down the road can only be described as a cross between death and pus. I would eat my fellow astronauts over silkworms.
If anything they could use it to spin some lingerie for the female astronauts to help with those lonely space nights.
Hakuna Matata!
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Last time I was there I had some great meat balls. They really were the dog's bollocks.
Male Astronauts have apparently tried quite a bit
Unless you have a citation for this I'm going to assume that you are confusing the NASA channel with old Cinemax reruns of Emmanuelle in Space ;)
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Who was the guy who first looked at a chicken and thought "I'm gonna eat the first thing that comes out of that bird's butt."
Thank god the egg came out first.
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Null gravity's awkward for lovers,
especially pushers and shovers.
The problems of docking
and then interlocking
are greatly increased when one hovers.
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