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by lupire 577 days ago
"The asteroid mass needed to support one astronaut for one year is between 160k metric tons and 5k metric tons. "

10 to 500 tons per person per day.
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marcosdumay 577 days ago
Well, if you never recycle anything and rely only on the extremely low quality reserves you found floating around...

I have no idea why the measurement unities even make sense.

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