ARPA Wants to Build Giant Space Structures Using Living Organisms

thedebrief.org ^ | 03/15/2025 | MJ Banias

[algore]

I wish them good luck with that.

[Magnum44]

[LouAvul]

biological materials

I read that and saw something about fungus? Easy. Ship every liberal in America into space. They're biological and are a fungus. Let'm do something useful for a change.

[DannyTN]

Brilliant!
I haven’t seen an organic space ship since the Stargate series.
If we build organic space ships, we can be the ones to creep out alien civilizations.

[alexander_busek]

ARPA Wants to Build Giant Space Structures Using Living Organisms

Sounds promising!

Regards,

[blackdog]

Now we know what they have planned for dead and stranded astronauts. Recycle their protein structures into building materials.

[NativeSon]

ARPA not AARP...ok

[butlerweave]

Why not start with a Hamster Cage In Space ,LOL

[Larry Lucido]

[No name given]

Like a coral reef but in outer space. Good to know.

[No name given]

Which is just twisted and wicked.

[Gaffer]

So. The idea comes from will Smith’s/Jayden Smith’s movie called “After Earth” 2013

[Dead Corpse]

My thoughts exactly. Vacuum adapted... It’s an interesting idea.

[Dead Corpse]

Been any number of Authors who have used “grown” ships and structures.

Dan Simmons in Hyperion. The Templar Tree ships.

Lexx.

Babylon 5’s Vorlon ships.

Etc... It’s an idea with a certain amount of merit.

[jimfree]

Thank you! My first thought was Far Point Station on Deneb IV.

[curious7]

Would also reduce the bremsstrahlung effect from radiation striking the spacecraft structure.

[blackdog]

"Which is just twisted and wicked."

Very NIH Fauci kinda twisted.

[JimRed]

Voyager’s bio-neural circuitry writ large?

[SubMareener]

More like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape