Astronomy

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A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about — drumroll, please — the ethics of astronaut cannibalism in space.

Perhaps best known for husband Zach Weinersmith's "Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal" webcomic — though Kelly is a behavioral ecologist at Rice University — the duo pointed out that beyond the United Nations' international space law stipulating that technically, a floating corpse in space would be considered a satellite ("thanks, Registration Convention!")

"Imagine you're stranded on the Red Planet with three crewmembers," Seedhouse, a professor at Daytona Beach's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University wrote.

Per the author and triathelete's estimation, the biggest of the Mars explorers should sacrifice themselves first because they "both consume and provide the most food."

In "Survival and Sacrifice" — whose title, we must admit, makes a chilling sort of sense in this context — readers will also find, the Weinersmiths pointed out, a photo of ten astronauts smiling in space alongside the caption: "In the wrong circumstances, a spacecraft is a platform full of hungry people surrounded by temptation.

Per the aeronautical professor's estimation, it would indeed be wrong — but as the writers of "A City on Mars" so aptly declare, it's probably best for Red Planet-bound astronauts to "leave Erik Seedhouse at home."

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