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"Hydroponics was another favourite of the prediction set, though I suspect that it had less to do with any inherent advantages of soil-less farming than it did with getting rid of all that icky mud.

Advanced spacecraft designers, who saw hydroponics as a way of recycling air on long spaceflights while providing the crew with the odd tomato or bit of salad greens to brighten up their day. Not a bad idea, if it weren't for the fact that a) the equipment and fertilisers needed have so far outweighed any payload benefits and b) finding the sand and caterpillars in deep space to go with the spinach has proven an insurmountable obstacle."

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"This was before the advent of aeroponics !"

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