Yep, but that'll take some months to be really productive in terms of food. If they manage to simulate a growing season (and have seedlings) it won't be as long, but if they can't find the facilities to do that they'll have to wait. Some crops would probably have matured by that time (the leafy veggies, mostly), but I wouldn't want to try to feed a city on them, and a large amount of that first crop will need to be set aside for seed. Really, I can see how they'd run into a shortage.
Well, I'm thinking more long-term. I mean, they think it's a one-way trip, possibly, so they should be thinking about years from now. A good balance of trade, crops, maybe even hunting if the planet has animals, would be best. Maybe the Athosians will take up some of that on the mainland and they can trade.
Three months... Yeah, that'd be about the point at which you could expect a hydroponics harvest soon, but not yet.
I keep thinking of the hydroponics bay on Voyager. They had a similar thing, stuck in a far off galaxy for years, so they had to grow food in case trade wasn't an option.
She's an anthropologist from the Great State, and insists that she can because it was a Republic at one point, therefore it counts as a country. Besides, as the only resident of Texas running about, the kitchen is therefore her's to look after (after she points this out the protester generally shuts up and leaves her to it - cooking for a community is not something most people want to be in charge of).
Hee, sounds cute. And yeah, someone has to be in charge of those sorts of things. They're gonna have to assign some people to cooking and cleaning and such.
Exactly. We seem to have more than one person of each discipline running around (I can think of no other reason for the flock of physicists), so I bet he got chewed out for that later.
Probably a good thing, in case some of these people die.
Well, it doesn't make any less sense than people who have been in danger from the Wraith for centuries, and lost family and friends to them doing the same thing... *shrug* I'm not surprised it wasn't anyone's fault. No one had any motive.
True. I'm glad it turned out to be no one's fault. I do like that they set up the suspicion of a traitor early on, though, mentioning that in the pilot.
Yeah, and you're less likely to get locked into one theory. And you make less of a jackass of yourself (listen to this Bates, it's important).
Lol. Maybe Bates and that guy Cavenaugh from last week will learn their lessons :)
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Date: 2004-08-06 10:35 pm (UTC)Well, I'm thinking more long-term. I mean, they think it's a one-way trip, possibly, so they should be thinking about years from now. A good balance of trade, crops, maybe even hunting if the planet has animals, would be best. Maybe the Athosians will take up some of that on the mainland and they can trade.
Three months... Yeah, that'd be about the point at which you could expect a hydroponics harvest soon, but not yet.
I keep thinking of the hydroponics bay on Voyager. They had a similar thing, stuck in a far off galaxy for years, so they had to grow food in case trade wasn't an option.
She's an anthropologist from the Great State, and insists that she can because it was a Republic at one point, therefore it counts as a country. Besides, as the only resident of Texas running about, the kitchen is therefore her's to look after (after she points this out the protester generally shuts up and leaves her to it - cooking for a community is not something most people want to be in charge of).
Hee, sounds cute. And yeah, someone has to be in charge of those sorts of things. They're gonna have to assign some people to cooking and cleaning and such.
Exactly. We seem to have more than one person of each discipline running around (I can think of no other reason for the flock of physicists), so I bet he got chewed out for that later.
Probably a good thing, in case some of these people die.
Well, it doesn't make any less sense than people who have been in danger from the Wraith for centuries, and lost family and friends to them doing the same thing... *shrug* I'm not surprised it wasn't anyone's fault. No one had any motive.
True. I'm glad it turned out to be no one's fault. I do like that they set up the suspicion of a traitor early on, though, mentioning that in the pilot.
Yeah, and you're less likely to get locked into one theory. And you make less of a jackass of yourself (listen to this Bates, it's important).
Lol. Maybe Bates and that guy Cavenaugh from last week will learn their lessons :)