Hi JJJ,
It is puzzling that despite the data set of countless generations of twenty-something-year-olds
sitting alone in their own tiny bedsitters and eating the same TV dinners every night,
not to mention millions of people who are incarcerated in prison cells eating the
same old prison food day in day out, that the psychologists at NASA are concerned
that somehow an individual traveling to Mars will suffer claustrophobia along with
annoyance at being caged-up with their fellow astronauts or will suffer "food fatigue".
What happened to the days of astronauts with the "Right Stuff" who would be
eager to undergo such a mission and content with taking nothing more than twelve packs
of Beemams for their complete dietary needs? (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beemans_gum)
I am confident if NASA put out the call for being the first person to fly to Mars
in a capsule the size of a wheelie bin along with five other occupants and
the diet was a packet of Beemans a day supplemented by sucking on the
occasional beef jerky, we would have 100 volunteers put up their hand right
here on IceInSpace.
Prospective candidates in the meantime would be advised to avoid haute cuisine
and not watch MasterChef.
