DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
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#2Cool idea, very ambitious, is there any prior research or feasible testing setup that would support getting from 0 to 1 with this?
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#3Sounds like someone bought into the Dyson tree meme revival that was floating round the internet a month so ago!
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#4That would be in interesting direction for our tech to go, everything grown organically including space structures.
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#5Cylon basestar here we come
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#6> Some examples of structures that could be biologically manufactured and assembled, but that may be infeasible to produce traditionally, include tethers for a space elevator, grid-nets for orbital debris remediation, kilometer-scale interferometers for radio science, new self-assembled wings of a commercial space station for hosting additional payloads, or on-demand production of patch materials to adhere and repair micrometeorite damage.
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#7That would be in interesting direction for our tech to go, everything grown organically including space structures.
Hopefully it won't be considered "woke" to manufacture things organically as opposed to using steel and concrete and plastic.
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#8This is how Zerg starts
Re: DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
#9That would be in interesting direction for our tech to go, everything grown organically including space structures.
Hopefully it won't be considered "woke" to manufacture things organically as opposed to using steel and concrete and plastic.
considering organic meat substitutes are, they're going to have to spin it pretty hard for some people to NOT think it's 'woke'
Re: DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
#10Cool idea, very ambitious, is there any prior research or feasible testing setup that would support getting from 0 to 1 with this?
I believe this is a program to prototype technology that has already been tried/theorized on Earth and needs an evaluation in Space.
The program director has a background in planetary science [1] and I assume they will evaluate proposals.