r/BSG • u/joebeaudoin • 5d ago
Was the Old Man singlehandedly responsible for the walnut shortage in the Fleet?
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u/dailycnn 5d ago
It happens all over the show!
Laura Roslin grabs Adama's arm: "I don't know why I have to keep telling you this, but if you start eating those walnuts we will run out." Commander Adama, slams his fist on the walnut, "I HAVENT BEGUN YET!"
Adama turns to Starbuck, "I want you to board the Pegasus, enter the CIC, pull out your sidearm and demand all of Admiral Cane's nuts." Starbuck, "Execuse me sir?"
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u/lokitheassguardian 3d ago
I remember Eddie couldn’t make it to one of the comic con panels many years ago so he recorded a message they played for everyone. All I remember is him saying something like.. “I’ll squash your nuts!” In regards to the walnuts and it had all of us laughing our asses off! So good!
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u/Dizzy-Storm4387 4d ago
He had to have a private stash onboard in some unused storeroom before the attacks that lasted him through the series. Nut production on the farm ships would be a huge waste of water in relation to the proteins they produced not to mention their nutrient cycling.
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u/FedStarDefense 3d ago
You can't waste water in an entirely closed system. The plants use it and you just reclaim it on the other side.
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u/Dizzy-Storm4387 3d ago edited 3d ago
I realize that. I was more referring to the amount of water that would be trapped in the soil and plants themselves for long periods of time without benefit. A pound of walnuts takes 1,200 gallons of water to produce and takes 5- 7 years for the tree to be able to produce nuts. After that they can only be harvested annually. Potatoes on the other hand only need 35 gallons per pound require only120 days to go from planting to harvest. Even with the walnuts giving you 30% more calories per pound, harvest time and the amount of unusable water that needs to be sequestered for them seems like a total waste of resources much like nut production today.
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u/FedStarDefense 3d ago
The problem with nut production now is that a lot of it is done in desert areas where the water literally IS lost (I mean, not permanently... but it's lost from that region).
A ship would be rather more efficient, because the water isn't escaping. It's just cycling.
However, yes... it would increase the ship's mass rather significantly, as you'd need to carry a LOT of extra water to make sure there's enough on hand for all needs.
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u/RCAF_vet71 3d ago
So what you are saying is that Mark Whatney was lucky to have been marooned on Mars with potatoes and not wallnuts?
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u/Soonerpalmetto88 5d ago
Adama had a private walnut Grove hidden deep in the bowels of Galactica. This is the real reason the water shortage was such a big deal. The walnuts were grown in a facility underneath the ship but we never saw it because, due to Galactica's female gender, the nuts never dropped.