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Comment author: gwern 22 May 2013 03:40:27PM 3 points [-]

If nothing else, it's progress towards a permanent manned presence in space.

How so? Space food is >52 years old, and we even have subjects who have spent at least as long as 2.2 years subsisting on it (the current record holder for time in space, Sergei Krikalev). What does Soylent add?

Comment author: ThrustVectoring 22 May 2013 07:50:29PM 3 points [-]

Err, I may not have been explicit enough about independence from Earth's food supply. Soylent is more of a marketing thing than a space food thing, but the approach (don't make food, make chemicals) seems at first glance to be a more promising route.