LOG ENTRY: SOL 7

  Otters have a basal metabolic rate (BMR) about 2.5 times higher than a human of my weight. Maintaining body temp in water takes calories. Maintaining it on Mars takes even more.

  This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

  I need protein. I need fats. I need a miracle.

  I have "Growth Medium" (sterile dirt) and a Protein Synthesis Lab meant for "proof of concept" meat growth. If I grow potatoes in the crew's... fertilizer... I can turn those tubers into a sugar-slurry to feed the bioreactors.

  I am going to farm lab-grown salmon on Mars.