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slash setup welcome to cool stuff ride home I'm Roger Rizzou on today's episode

could future astronauts use

asteroids for food? That might be able to. We'll tell you how. The Tasmanian tiger could be

resurrected. Plus, on this day in history, we look at the first transatlantic radio telephone

message. That's coming up on Cool Stuff. When traveling the depths of space, there are several

complications that humans will have to

overcome, as space is an unforgiving place. With our current technology, traveling to Mars alone

can take over five years. If we want to go beyond the fourth planet from the sun, like heading to

Neptune, it could take 20 plus years. And that is just the one-way trip. If humans want to travel for that long,

we will either have to stock the spacecraft full of food, which could add a lot of additional weight,

which means longer transit times and more money, or find another way to harvest food for astronauts.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest about mining asteroids for rare Earth metals as they pass by.

Now, a new study published in the International Journey of Astrobiology,

it examined if these same asteroids could also be a good source of nutrients and calories for future astronauts.

Eric Pia, lead author of the study from Western University, says,

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