January 2023
Producing food in space
...into any other flavours, so it can taste like anything it is used as an ingredient for. Even photosynthesis, the method plants use to convert energy into nutrition, is not as efficient as this method and, unlike conventional food production, it takes...
21 November 2015
ESA to monitor plant health from space
...process, and a vital one for life on Earth. Every plant has a "solar power" system that collects energy from sunlight ...produces chemical energy for photosynthesis and heat. A healthy plant in good environmental conditions will also produce a faint ...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
...was to “preserve Earth’s full gene record - human, animals and plants - not only as a memorial of our existence, but by putting... then be possible to re-create humans, tigers, animals and plants from their DNA? Endless Door opens the prospect of a Noah...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...Mission contracts - room and board At Omaha Crater anything that can be grown or manufactured in the domes or ISRU plants can be stockpiled just as in a general store. These goods can be contracted by spacefaring agencies in bulk, concurrent with the...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...worth anything would be gone. Therefore, it’s important to plant as many cosmic colonies as possible, to increase the ...planet. We have to reduce carbon emissions, stop using plastics, plant more trees, clean up the oceans, restore the rainforests, ban...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... period of time will cause acute radiation sickness and 10 Sv is often fatal. Emergency workers at Japan’s Fukashima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 received up to 678 mSv, yet none of them suffered acute radiation sickness. The effects of radiation...
