@black6_ I was thinking about if its even possible... should be possible in theory, in practice wouldnt be practical. A few miltivitamins and some lab grown protein, carbs, and fat and your good to go :)

@freemo @black6_ well, those would be synthesized using oil which at some point long ago was something living :P

@bonifartius @black6_ Should be possible to synthesize oil from non-living base components. How you would make sure the atoms themselves never existing as part of life I dunno, but as long as you get it from a non-organic source it should be a fairly safe bet.

@freemo @black6_ well, mineral oil directly was something living some time back.. ;)

maybe we need to capture an asteroid for this :P

@bonifartius

Yea obviously for the idea to work mineral oil wouldnt work. Interesting mineral oil is mostly safe to eat but your body cant absorb it so its just a laxative. That said chemically you should be able to synthesize proper fat from just water and air.

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@freemo @black6_ guess it won't kill you, but some of the organic compounds & heavy metals in there probably aren't really healthy as well :P

of course you can, that's what plants do! :D

@bonifartius

mineral oils is a distillate process. While I am sure it needs some additional cleaning for the stuff that is fit for humans, it shouldnt have any sort of heavy metals in it. Mercury is the only heavy metal that distills at any reasonable temperature but if that was present it would wind upin a different fraction than the mineral oil.

But yea, regardless im sure there is some additional cleaning and/or processing for the mineral oil intended to be used for humans.

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@freemo @black6_ ah, sure the distilled stuff for medicinal use and the like is probably pretty clean! )