Thought Tim would be all over this!
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Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity
Scientists are developing an interstellar Noah's Ark - a self-sustaining spaceship that can carry humans on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit in the event of a global catastrophe.
Researchers around the UK are working with colleagues from the US, Italy and the Netherlands on Project Persephone, investigating new bio-technologies that could one day help to create a self-sustaining spacecraft to carry people beyond our solar system.
The spaceship would incorporate into its structure organic matter such as algae and artificial soil, using the Sun's energy to produce biofuel and a sustainable source of food, 'The Times' reported.
It would need to keep a few thousand people alive for generations on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit, researchers said.
According to the project website, scientists are "considering the application of living technologies such as protocells, programmable smart chemistry, in the context of habitable starship architecture that can respond and evolve according to the needs of its inhabitants."
Rachel Armstrong, a senior architecture and design lecturer at the University of Greenwich, is leading the project, which includes 13 designers, six of whom are based in the UK.
Armstrong's research focuses on bio-engineering, developing artificial soil and droplets of water that can be programmed to carry key elements.
"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation. We need nature to survive, so how do we take nature with us?" said Steve Fuller, the team's sociologist, based at the University of Warwick.
Researchers hope the project's principal use will be to each us more about building sustainable cities on Earth.
https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/ (https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/)
Quote from: Brazen on May 01, 2014, 05:52:31 AM
Thought Tim would be all over this!
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Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity
Scientists are developing an interstellar Noah's Ark - a self-sustaining spaceship that can carry humans on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit in the event of a global catastrophe.
Researchers around the UK are working with colleagues from the US, Italy and the Netherlands on Project Persephone, investigating new bio-technologies that could one day help to create a self-sustaining spacecraft to carry people beyond our solar system.
The spaceship would incorporate into its structure organic matter such as algae and artificial soil, using the Sun's energy to produce biofuel and a sustainable source of food, 'The Times' reported.
It would need to keep a few thousand people alive for generations on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit, researchers said.
According to the project website, scientists are "considering the application of living technologies such as protocells, programmable smart chemistry, in the context of habitable starship architecture that can respond and evolve according to the needs of its inhabitants."
Rachel Armstrong, a senior architecture and design lecturer at the University of Greenwich, is leading the project, which includes 13 designers, six of whom are based in the UK.
Armstrong's research focuses on bio-engineering, developing artificial soil and droplets of water that can be programmed to carry key elements.
"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation. We need nature to survive, so how do we take nature with us?" said Steve Fuller, the team's sociologist, based at the University of Warwick.
Researchers hope the project's principal use will be to each us more about building sustainable cities on Earth.
https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/ (https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/)
This is, what, the second or third organization founded to do exactly the same thing? I love how scientists can get all scismatic over something so hypothetical.
I also love that title: "Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity." They are "building" a space ark to the exact same extent that CdM is building a bondage cell in his mom's basement.
Without schisma, how would we know what to be for and against? :Embarrass:
Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.
What they actually seem to be reporting is space dirt.
Quote from: Norgy on May 01, 2014, 06:23:47 AM
Without schisma, how would we know what to be for and against? :Embarrass:
"We put green and purple in great barrel, equal to numbers of Drazi. Then we reach in, we take. Where there was one Drazi people, now there are two. The two fight until there are one."
Quote from: The Brain on May 01, 2014, 06:31:33 AM
Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.
Rainbow in the Dark is better. DIO :punk:
Quote from: Caliga on May 01, 2014, 06:54:55 AM
Quote from: The Brain on May 01, 2014, 06:31:33 AM
Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.
Rainbow in the Dark is better. DIO :punk:
Dio's dead, baby. Dio's dead.
Damn, you people fail.
Personally I think these scientists are BArking up the wrong tree.
Quote"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.
Why, precisely? So we can do it all over again on another planet?
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 01, 2014, 08:12:33 AM
Quote"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.
Why, precisely? So we can do it all over again on another planet?
I've been wondering the same. The way humanity cocks up, there's no reason to spread the disease further.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on May 01, 2014, 08:12:33 AM
Quote"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.
Why, precisely? So we can do it all over again on another planet?
Yeah let's leave before we fuck up the Earth, give the Earth a fighting chance
I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 01, 2014, 08:21:15 AM
I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.
Odd, I was about the post the same thing.
Quote from: PDH on May 01, 2014, 08:48:30 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 01, 2014, 08:21:15 AM
I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.
Odd, I was about the post the same thing.
Can we just persuade him to borrow a suspiciously 'neat' looking spaceship? :bowler:
I'll go. Whichever ship leaves first. I'll volunteer.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 01, 2014, 10:09:48 AM
I'll go. Whichever ship leaves first. I'll volunteer.
Even if it's Tim's ship to the sun? :ph34r:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 01, 2014, 10:10:57 AM
Even if it's Tim's ship to the sun? :ph34r:
"We'll leave at night-time so it's not too hot."
Will it be something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WSgMhfuic&feature=youtu.be
Quote from: grumbler on May 01, 2014, 06:20:56 AM
I also love that title: "Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity." They are "building" a space ark to the exact same extent that CdM is building a bondage cell in his mom's basement.
You really think the scientists are actually going to build one this time?
Question; where the fuck is my flying car? :glare:
Quote from: Norgy on May 01, 2014, 02:21:31 PM
Question; where the fuck is my flying car? :glare:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.homebuiltairplanes.com%2Fforums%2Fattachments%2Faircraft-design-aerodynamics-new-technology%2F22101d1359020120-roadable-aircraft-design-flying-car.jpg&hash=283db698151246f55e49d7d70fc768334eb8279a)
:cool:
Quote from: Norgy on May 01, 2014, 02:21:31 PM
Question; where the fuck is my flying car? :glare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0WfnhVs2s
Quote from: The Brain on May 01, 2014, 02:47:55 PM
Quote from: Norgy on May 01, 2014, 02:21:31 PM
Question; where the fuck is my flying car? :glare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0WfnhVs2s
Love it! :lol:
I actually think the engineering challenges of such a project would be minuscule compared to the social challenges.
Quote"Yes, so anyway," he resumed, "the idea was that into the first ship, the 'A' ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers; and into the third, or 'C' ship, would go all the people who did the actual work, who made things and did things, and then into the `B' ship - that's us - would go everyone else, the middlemen you see."
He smiled happily at them.
"And we were sent off first," he concluded, and hummed a little bathing tune.