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The Plan to Rear Fish on the Moon
Hakai Magazine ^ | 22 Feb, 2021 | Chris Baraniuk

Posted on 02/23/2021 6:07:04 PM PST by MtnClimber

To boldly farm fish where no one has farmed fish before.

The seabass eggs, all 200 of them, were settled in their module and ready to go. The ground crew had counted the eggs carefully, checked each for an embryo, and sealed them tightly within a curved dish filled precisely to the brim with seawater.

The countdown, and then—ignition! For two full minutes, the precious eggs suffered a riotous shaking as the rocket’s engines exploded to life, followed by another eight minutes of heightened juddering as they ascended to the heavens. These embryonic fish were on their way to low Earth orbit. Next stop: the moon.

Well, they haven’t actually left yet. But after a recent simulation designed to re-create the intense shaking of a typical takeoff, researchers in France found that the eggs survived the ordeal well. It’s a crucial discovery in the progress of the Lunar Hatch, a program that aims to determine whether astronauts could successfully rear fish on a future moon base.

(Excerpt) Read more at hakaimagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: fishfarms; moon; seabass
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To: mrsmith

You belong on DU. You make no sense. Call it a day clown. Enough of your false premises. You’re a liberal troll.


61 posted on 02/23/2021 10:35:18 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

The purpose of sentient intelligence is to propagate life beyond Earth or any other planet. Evolution is the force that allows matter to assemble itself into complex and self replication structures. Life started in oceans with bacteria and fungi that adapted to different environments leading to civilization. The evolutionary drive will take life beyond earth and it will eventually become self sustaining.


62 posted on 02/23/2021 10:39:12 PM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: Fungi

Seriously, why do you want everyone here to think you’re an idiot?
How does that help you?


63 posted on 02/23/2021 10:46:38 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: Fungi

So they succeed, to whom will they sell them to, and how much will they cost? Why do this? The initial cost will be stratospheric.

The colonists that they hope will be living there of course. Fish is good food needing little care. Cost is what the traffic will bear


64 posted on 02/24/2021 5:01:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: gnarledmaw

Maybe we can make a gigantic fish gate to the sky since the flat earth doesn’t rotate and it’s closer than we think? Maybe the cow that jumped over the moon can help assuage the high costs? Can fish survive on a green cheese diet?

Just questions scientists should consider...


65 posted on 02/24/2021 7:50:34 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: webheart

You really believe that? Prove it. Evolution is a fantasy. Unprovable through experimentation. You need a course on true science, not religion parading as science. Your god is chance and all its attendant hericies —communism, fascism, atheism... You need a real education, start with biology. G. A. Kerkut, The implications of Evolution. Do some readiing.


66 posted on 02/24/2021 10:17:19 PM PST by Fungi
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