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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."

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  1. ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you don't know what GPL and GNU are for, GTFO.
    If you think Firefox is a decent GNU/Linux application, GTFO.
    If you're still looking for the Control Panel, GTFO.
    If you don't know Tux from SCO, GTFO.

    Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real GNU/Linux users. Keep your filthy Windows fingers to yourself.

    1. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by tsalmark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      and for that, you get rated a 0

  2. Attention Windows Clickarounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah I'm talking to you. The wannabe computer programmer who thinks they are good at computers because they can click around the computer enough times and find the reboot button and 'fix' an inherently flawed windows system. You think you're cool because you can pirate photoshop but not know anything about it, get Microsoft Office for free but have the literacy of a 1st grader when writing a paper, and get a copy of Norton Anti-virus because your inherently flawed system is useless without Administrative privileges. Get a clue, you are not smart, you are just a corporate sheep for a company that will bury you if you ever tried to write any software that did anything remotely useful. You are a clickaround and all you know is your ugly gray existence that is Windows.

    Want the source code to windows vista?

    head -n 1000000 /dev/random > Windows.com