
Experts warn of cannibalism among space colonists if food systems fail
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Space colonization remains a distant hope, but thinkers and scholars want to tackle the problems today in preparation.
Cockell stressed that colonizers need to ensure farming and crop systems operate properly or they could find themselves in a similar situation to Sir John Franklin's 1845 Arctic exploration, which resulted in the crew cannibalizing each other.
"Franklin’s crew tried to find the north-west passage on ships in the late 19th century," the astrobiology professor told the Metro. "They were the most sophisticated pieces of technology available at that time."
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