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NASA-funded company to produce oxygen on Mars using bacteria
economictimes.indiatimes.com ^
Posted on 05/14/2015 6:01:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Indiana-based company has developed a "Mars room," which plays host to a test chamber capable of emulating the inhospitable conditions prevailing on the red planet.
In the Mars room, Chief scientist Eugene Boland at Techshot Inc is exploring the potential of using ecosystem-building pioneer organisms such as bacteria or algae as oxygen factories.
The organisms would use Mars' ample supply of regolith as fuel, and may even serve a dual purpose in removing nitrogen from the M ..
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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: colonization; eugeneboland; indiana; mars; microbialprivilege; nasa; nitrogen; oxygen; regolith; spaceexploration; techshot; terraform; terraforming
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:01:33 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Regolith? Hmmmmm..
Sounds like a heavy metal rock band
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:04:05 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: BenLurkin
How does this make Muslims feel better and are there plans in place to counter sue the Sierra Club types because you KNOW that they will NEVER allow this to tough Mars soil without ecoterror and lawsuits out the whazoo.
To: NormsRevenge
I understand a toy company is coming out with a
Martian soil to play with...
It’s called Legolith...
haha....ha.
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:06:36 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:07:07 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: BenLurkin
I’m writing a sci-fi novel (or trying) and this is one of my things about living on the moon - you live underground, in rooms sprayed with a non-permiable polymer, with an “air-box” of GMO algae made to control Co2/O2 levels. If the O2 level gets too high, you simply turn the lights down, and vice versa.
It’s then simply to put the oxygen bottles away.
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:10:31 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:12:18 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Norm Lenhart
Muslims and Sierra Club types ?
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:15:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Sure eventually. But until then ;)
To: struggle
Sounds like a an okay place for an old guy to retire to. Where do I sign up?
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:16:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
I would suggest reading this series...there are 3 books, "Red Mars", "Green Mars", and "Blue Mars"..a large theme in the book is the multigenerational battle between those that wished to terraform mars for people, and the "Reds" who wanted to keep mars barren and "pristine" sometimes at all costs...
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posted on
05/14/2015 6:18:57 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: BenLurkin
"Weyland Corporation; 'Building better worlds.'"
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
05/14/2015 11:19:47 PM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Almighty Jehovah, deliver us from this evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
05/15/2015 1:18:06 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: BenLurkin; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Terraforming Mars extra to APoD.
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posted on
05/16/2015 6:54:27 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: BenLurkin
From Wiki:
"Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial material covering solid rock. It includes dust, soil, broken rock, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons."
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