Theoretical, Science Fiction Question

[Chickndaddy]

suspended animation

AKA Cold Sleep.

It would be quite pointless to allow the birds to consume oxygen and food supplies that are vital to the colonists while traveling anyway. That is why they are going to be in freezers.​

 

[3KillerBs]

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All good reasons for keeping them in suspended animation during the journey.

I hadn't exactly gone down that list, but I definitely prefered the idea of cold sleep shipping to the idea of having the Starship Barnyard for months or years on route.

But if there was no other means of shipping livestock to a new colony planet they'd have to do what they'd have to do.

 

[High Roost Ranch]

Wow, reading the first post made my head hurt contemplating all this. LOL. I am just soooo not a trekkie (sp?) and don't even try to think outside of the box (or outside this universe) on issues like this.

 

[wegotchickens]

Can you imagine trying to catch a chicken in zero gravity? Wow.
Would wings work for movement in zero gravity? Or with no gravity is there nothing to push against? Or would the wind generated by their flapping push away their pursuers rather than move the chicken ahead of the pursuers?

And then there are the floating hazards... perfect spheres of chicken poo floating through the air... feathers & feed... it would truly be chaos at it's most sublime! Makes me smile just thinking about it! And about the chickens trying to land on a roost and flipping around it again and again as they desperately hang on with their feet

 

[Uzuri]

No chickeny words of wisdom here, but just wanted to pop in to say good luck on your nano. I've done it two years running, myself, but won't be doing it this year due to prior commitments. If you haven't done it before, it really is a lot of fun

 

[3KillerBs]

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Thanks. I've tried it but not succeeded yet.

I get derailed around the holiday.

But this should be a fun idea to run with and plenty of word count in long descriptions of various livestock as they settle in and get to growing things.

IMO, its a serious flaw of SF colonization novels that they frequently concentrate on science and exploration without ever establishing a sound agricultural base to feed everyone.

 

[3KillerBs]

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The more you picture the idea the better the cold sleep concept looks.

Chickens would be bad enough. Cattle would be beyond impossible.

 

[Chickndaddy]

Cattle would be beyond impossible.

Just thinking about that makes me want to giggle and run screaming. Cow sneezes in zero gravity...lol​

 

[Mahonri]

21 pullets and 3 roos for a total of 24... and you'd have to add a couple of packing peanuts!

 

[michiganlarry]

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I've read all her dragonrider books. Awesome!