I am a Ray of Funshine

Costco CEO Ron Vachris did the “CEO eats his own product” challenge by destroying a hot dog (and confirms the Costco hot dog combo is staying at $1.50 forever). LEGEND.

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This exchange Sinegal has with the Seattle Times is better:

but! i think everyone is severely underestimating how goddamn difficult if not borderline IMPOSSIBLE it would be to grow ANYthing on Mary, let alone to grow enough to sustain Grace for the journey to Erid

subsistence farming is very, very difficult ON EARTH, in the exact right conditions, with access to supplies and the space to grow what you need. adding to that, it is notoriously hard to grow ANYTHING in space. they’d have to devote a relatively large space to this particular hydroponics project, and Mary is NOT that big.

they’d need UV lights running on a schedule, and they’d need fans going to simulate wind to harden the plants and potentially aid in fertilization - talk about a power drain. they’d have to make the whole ship more oxygen rich (super unsettling when your crew member combusts in oxygenated environments). what kind of soil do they have access to? is it microbe-rich enough? how do they fertilize? maybe they add taumoeba in an attempt to augment the substrate they’re using - but what if that introduces the plants to brand new diseases? what if it sterilizes them and makes the resulting seeds completely useless? what if they can only get cabbages and leeks to grow - we’d still be missing some vital nutrients. and even if Grace was successfully eating a decent variety of grown food, he’d still be missing OTHER vital nutrients that he wouldn’t have access to until Eridian scientists come up with me-burgers.