[gurps] Farming without dry land

[Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier]

David Scheidt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Nigel Mccarty-Eigenmann
> <n.mccartyeigenmann at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>> * The next option is halfway traditional farming
>>>   on floating platforms. The published rules for
>>>   farm modules are for space stations, 50,000 cf
>>>   and 400,000 lbs. per person. Doing it in open
>>>   air should be easier, but how much?
>> Pass.  Much easier I'd think - were you thinking that they would have no
>> external input?  No krill or seabed glop for fertiliser?
> 
> Depends on weather, to some extent.  One of my setting's major worlds
> is largely water, and hot.  There's a moderate amount of agriculture
> on the surface land, but it's all in domes.  The weekly cat 5
> hurricanes make growing things outside unlikely.  Water worlds are
> likely to have bad weather, which makes surface platforms hard to do.

Worth doing any way, even if they have to be domed. Fruits and Honey, 
possible island avian ecology can be based (like new zealand's native 
ecology). What makes it worth doing is they have secndary fuction as the 
culture's parks.

Also the artificial islands but used as hanging platform for under water 
functions as a secondary usage.