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You're wrong on the heat issue. Dumping waste heat in space is hard because you're limited to black body radiation and not much else. The Apollo 13 astronauts started to get cold after things went wrong because the spaceship they were in was designed to dissipate heat they weren't generating...

Volts and amps isn't the right way to think of this. Watts are. Our brains operate at about 12W and are the most metabolically expensive part of our anatomy.* They're also very energy efficient because 12W is about what an LED lightbulb needs. * Our brains weigh about 3lbs and consume about...

Which works out to nearly a literal ton of shit per adult in the compost pile at all times.

Mr. Na and Ms. Cl went on a date. There were fireworks and the two got married before the date ended. They're now known as the NaCl's. (sorry, couldn't resist)

Even without FTL!Zoom calls an Ecumenopolis still doesn't make sense. If you've got FTL drives but are limited to lightspeed communications talking to someone in a neighbouring star system will be done the old-fashioned way: by mail or paying them a visit in person because that's quicker.

If they aren't doing it for the fresh vegetables or bragging rights they could just be into gardening as a hobby. Fr'ex: my mom's garden includes potatoes, tomatoes, rhubarb, mint, and several spices. She likes the way the plants look. The plants being more than decorative is an added bonus.

a This applies pretty much everywhere that doesn't get enough light for photosynthesis or doesn't have an atmosphere: Grow the crops on the surface in the great climate-controlled indoors. That way dealing with the hassle of climbing out of a gravity well and descending back into one just to...

I see Agri-worlds and pretty much any other single-industry world as the sign of a lazy writer. Planets are big and one populated enough to have large scale industry will be largely self-sufficient in terms of basic goods because space travel is neither cheap nor easy. (Don't get me started on...