Why Kerbals don't eat

[M.Wolfy]

Why don't kerbals have to eat?

MY theory is they Use photosynthesis, This would also explain what gives them their green colour

I know animal cells don't have the things that make food out of sunlight. but hey, that's only on earth and we don't know about life out there

And what is FOOD in the Hitchhiker storage container, i don't know, (something that starts with F) Orbital Ordinances and devices?

And IF they add life support than i guess kerbals would de-evolve to lose photosynthesis but what will keep their green colour?

Just post your opinions (and arguments) on this theory and your own theories.

PS: Also, if this is in the wrong section, can a moderator please move it?

Edited September 16, 2013 by M.Wolfy

[Scorpi15]

FOOD: Freaky Oblong Objects (Damaged)

That's what FOOD is!

[M.Wolfy]

FOOD: Freaky Oblong Objects (Damaged)

That's what FOOD is!

You have no idea know how much i laughed when i saw that

[Cmmndrme]

Well considering animal cells ate (for lack of a better word) other cells to make mitochondria and plants did it again to go all green and make their own food there is no reason the kerbal ancester didn't do the same

[rodion]

perhaps also: Sorely Needed Apparatus Concerning Kerbal Safety

[loknar]

How do you know they're not eating food? They have teeth after all.

They're only eating when you're not looking. You have to pretend you're looking away then surprise Jeb with a mouthful of fried spaceworm.

[Scorpi15]

NOT FOOD:

Nosy Old Triceratops (Fearing Other Old Dinosaurs)

SCIENCE:

Super Crappy Inter-dimensional Extra Nutty Cheese Everythings

Edited September 16, 2013 by Scorpi15

[M.Wolfy]

I'm always looking at them, totally not being creepy and all

Yes, they do have teeth, but there is no other living lifeforms (excluding the kraken, oh god i hope they don't eat the krakens flesh ) that teeth would be used to chew besides trees (OK, they might be herbivores, but lets not jump to any conclusions ) and Rocks (which they probably wouldn't) but then again, i did say this was a theory

EDIT: Also funny to see what people think of the labels in the hitch hiker storage container

Edited September 16, 2013 by M.Wolfy

[Crown]

I imagine the Kerbals sitting still in their Hitchhiker like students in a class room. And every time player looks away they start stuffing their mouths with food like the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. And when we look at them they sit still and pretend like nothing happened.

[Scorpi15]

Ah, so they're green from space-sickness...

[M.Wolfy]

Species that care only about space travel and do it all the time get space sick?

But they wouldn't ALL be sick... Or would they...

or are they just sick of wasting all their money, resources and lives on space travel?

Edited September 16, 2013 by M.Wolfy

[running]

How do you know they're not eating food? They have teeth after all.

Maybe those are for defense?

[razark]

But one of the notes in one of the capsules specifically mentions having eaten all the snacks. Therefore, we do know that they eat.

[M.Wolfy]

Maybe that wasn't a kerbal who ate it ...

and maybe it wasn't even a kerbal that put it there

[NASAFanboy]

Only explanation....

When we look away, thy stuff their faces with food from the food bin, such as tree bark and leaf/cactus salad. But let's also assume that we have some animals on Kerbin. Remember, this is in Alpha.

But they are also somewhat photosynethic

[Garek]

Maybe they like to eat (e.g., Snacks), but don't need to once they're grown up, because they get the energy to sustain themselves from the sunlight.

[M.Wolfy]

Maybe those are for defense?

"ITS THE KRAKEN!"

"Everybody! bite it!"

"nomnomnom"

*kraken dies*

Maybe they like to eat (e.g., Snacks), but don't need to once they're grown up, because they get the energy to sustain themselves from the sunlight.

They also would have to bring snacks to places with longer nights than kerbin, because they wouldn't be adapted to it. but i guess a snack is a leisure thing for kerbals as well

[Rage097]

I'd say Kerbals are photosynthetic. the snacks may be raw glucose substitutes, to be injected directly into the blood stream....Although...hopefully no one purposely Accidentally labels 'Morphine' as 'Snacks'

[lajoswinkler]

Why don't kerbals have to eat?

MY theory is they Use photosynthesis, This would also explain what gives them their green colour

I know animal cells don't have the things that make food out of sunlight. but hey, that's only on earth and we don't know about life out there

And what is FOOD in the Hitchhiker storage container, i don't know, (something that starts with F) Orbital Ordinances and devices?

And IF they add life support than i guess kerbals would de-evolve to lose photosynthesis but what will keep their green colour?

Just post your opinions (and arguments) on this theory and your own theories.

PS: Also, if this is in the wrong section, can a moderator please move it?

Plants don't eat light. They use light and various protein systems to mush CO2 and water together into sugars. If you don't supply plants with matter, you can shine all the light you want, they'll die.

Kerbals eat awesomeness. That's why they smile like goofs on landing. They're very hungry after being stuck in a can for weeks and there's lots of awesomeness in landing procedures, so they feast on it. Case closed.

[Comrade Jenkens]

Nova stated at one point that Kerbals get their energy from screams. :L

[Lar-E]

I'm fairly certain that my Kerbals anyway subsist entirely on Cheesey-Poofs and Mountain Dew.

[Masked Turk]

What if they eat spare parts?

[Kerbal01]

Photosynthesis is the generally accepted theory.

[magnemoe]

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Spam much?

A bit, why do they have an food locker?

The lack of life support has two reasons, 1 game is not finished yet 2 it might be hard for players to do multiple missions at once and launch in time for transfer windows and lots of other issues who come up if you have life support and limited time to do missions.

The simplest explanation to why they have low life support demands is probably that they can hibernate, lost of mammals can do this, even more common among reptiles.

Some research going on if we can get humans to do this to for long spaceflights. Common in sci-fi like Alien and Avatar.

[Speijker]

Holy Thread Revival!

Anyway, while studying, I bumped into this one: Towards Synthetic Chloroplasts.

The gist of it is, they made a photosynthetic bacteria capable of living inside eukaryotic (animals are eukaryotic) cells.

Theoretically, Kerbal Science could have succeeded into inserting chloroplast-like bacteria into their Kerbalnaughts (probably while they were still embryos), eliminating the need (and cost) of bringing food on long space-trips. They could live on Light, CO2 and Water. And some supplement-pills for essential minerals.

They would need a lot (and I mean a lot) of water though: to produce a single sugar-molecule they'd need six water molecules.