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These substances are filtered into the fleshy fabric within the walls of our homes, not dead spaces but active processors,

The practice of biomimicry already taps into nature's ingenuity oe for example, the famous hexagonal skin of Norman Foster's Gherkin was inspired by the Venus Flower Basket sponge,

and realise our urban spaces in new ways, since they are adaptable, robust and have an incredible ability to transform one thing into another.

with insulation in the space between. Compressors, condensers and refrigerants are pumped through the system to rapidly chill the milk

except to say that it features a phase-change material that can supercool quickly in a compact space.

whose cells were banked not before they vanished from the planet. But this is not stopping scientists like George Church from trying,

 Harvard's Church says his goal is not necessarily to fill the planet with mammoths

and all of the most unforgiving places on the planet. This coupled with the fact that it creates a year around farming operation on greatly expanded surface area has the ability to increase the earths ability to produce food a thousand fold.

CSP is seen currently as one of the most exciting and powerful ways of harnessing the suns energy to create power.

The suns rays, collected through reflecting mirrors, are used to heat water which then produces steam to power turbines.

One of the business stars in attendance was the 36-year-old entrepreneur Tony Hsieh, who had sold his Zappos online shoe retailer to Amazon for more than $1 billion the previous summer.

Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks.

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

Space-Based Power system Designers At some point, the burning of earth s natural resources for power will become a thing of the past.

Space-based systems will capture and transmit power far more efficiently than anything currently in existence. 46.

Printed Guitar by Amit Zoran Amit Zoran thinks that guitar players shouldn t be limited by today s current universe of sounds.

and offices are now creating information layers that will touch every plant and animal on our planet as well.

Acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet and fitted with computer processors, sensing equipment, wireless radios,

Chaotic Moon Labs began testing a robotic shopping cart that acts a bit like a mind-reading butler.

Michelin-Star TV DINNERS Frozen food may soon be on par with anything you can get at a three-star restaurant.

for farmers, for the planet First, in an excellent and frankly a bit depressing article for Mother Jones, Tom Philpott says that agriculture in the US is at a crossroads.

but for most exhibitors their so-called smart clothing has little more than pockets for smartphones or space for video nametags.

otherwise harmless beams of energy will intersect at some point in space creating a source of energy) as the main source of vehicular power.

as well as reduces preparation space and ultimately real estate rental costs. With the national obesity and diabetes epidemics of the 2010s a distant memory, fastfood chains are a thing of the past.

with weekly rocket flights departing to human colonies on the Moon and Mars (many of which use the same hydroponic food growing techniques perfected in Qatar) making it a truly intergalactic capital city.

#oebut at the time it felt like going to the moon in sneakers.##Levandowski first heard about it from his mother.

The driverless car project occupies a lofty, garagelike space in suburban Mountain view. It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.

they d use half the fuel and a fifth the road space of ordinary cars#nd far more flexible than buses or subways.

#oewe are just on such a different planet.##When Thrun and Levandowski first came to Google, in 2007,

but represents a point in space instead of on a two-dimensional screen.)Group a million or so voxels together

Here are some of the true innovators in this space: Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries

displayed by a unit the size of a toaster. 4. Real-time Google earth At RAL Space in Oxford,

But their purpose isn t to capture images of space#hey ll be pointed toward the Earth.

And while the resolution won t be great (roughly a meter per pixel) it will be a real-time, streaming, live video of the entire planet.

ET3 will be global space travel On earth Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies. Elon musk is a brilliant, big-thinking, subtly accented,

and it got the attention of about every news organization between Earth and Mars, where Musk hopes to aim his rockets one day.

#oei think we probably choose to go to the moon, actually.##To be fair, for all his means and influence,

#oeit s global space travel On earth,#Oster said, which happens to be ET3 s trademarked catchphrase.

space travel On earth, has been Oster s life s work. Oster describes the speculative in the present tense.

This was tantamount to space travel. And then he wondered, #oewhat if we make tunnels and take the air out?##

it s more or less six seats-or space for the equivalent of three cargo pallets, depending.

I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.

and increasingly essential to a sustainable food economy for the entire world. 1. More Africans now live in cities Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing region on the planet.

Africa has the greatest amount of idle arable land on the planet. For example, the Guinea Savannah zone covers around 600 million hectares in West Africa#hrough Uganda and Tanzania and encompassing Malawi, Zambia, Angola,

#Digital Media Lab The Skokie Public library in Illinois#oeoffers a digital media lab, a space with content creation tools that allow patrons to create

and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:

hydroponics or aeroponics, and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.

This increases efficiency, not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely, making more efficient use of space.

9. Space Colonies In what year will there be an election for the first President of the Moon?

Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.

Robotic Earthworms The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources.

which models development around mixed-use development and pedestrian-friendly spaces. These places seem to be built for people

work and play in the same space, City manager Rashad Young says. When Young thinks of the young professionals in Alexandria,

both of them 31, held a wedding rehearsal dinner in an upstairs event space. In between, an early-evening crowd drank beer,

Maki says office space here isprobably a quarter of the price of comparable space in Silicon valley.

it s about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet. The great business challenge now is not just how to build a successful organization,

the kind that serves people and the planet, that is fueling entrepreneurship and the transformation of old world businesses within the Purpose Economy.

By thinking of these as markets, we can imagine powerful new ways to create value by helping people and the planet.

Impact Assessors Creating the God Globe Thegod Globe is intended to be a master command center for planet earth,

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

Space-Based Power system Designers At some point, the burning of earth s natural resources for power will become a thing of the past.

Space-based systems will capture and transmit power far more efficiently than anything currently in existence. 156.

What we are about is getting higher resolution in space and time Chandrasekar told Livescience.

These cells have the capability to develop into any tissue in the body a talent that could make them the stars of regenerative medicine the goal

Prizes such as the automotive XPRIZE (vehicle efficiency) the lunar XPRIZE (space exploration) the genomics XPRIZE (genome sequencing)

#Predicting Mars Cuisine: Grasshoppers with a Side of Fungi (Op-Ed) Doug Turnbull is a hard-science-fiction writer.

Turnbull contributed this article to Space. com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first humans to land

and explore Mars will certainly have to bring their food with them. However if a permanent settlement on Mars is to be both physically

and economically sustainable eventually settlers will have to grow most if not all of their food on the Red planet.

There are a couple of reasons for this. First unlike hardware or electronics food is a consumable which means that the settlers will need a continuous supply.

Shipping anything to Mars will be monumentally expensive at least in the early years. Sending a kilogram (2. 5 pounds) of basic food to Mars would likely cost many times more than a similar amount of Beluga caviar consumed On earth.

It costs $7000 to $10000 per kilogram to ship material out of Earth's orbit.

However there has been limited only research into actually growing food under the conditions plants are likely to encounter on Mars. The Red planet's gravity is 38-percent that of Earth

and several plans call for a reduced-pressure environment in the Mars habitats as well. In the near term before colonists can construct greenhouses they will have to use artificial light from LEDS for example to power their plants'photosynthesis. NASA has conducted plant-growth research in microgravity aboard the International Space station (ISS) and in the Long Duration Exposure

Still the effects that these factors will have on plant growth specifically in a Mars environment are still largely in the theoretical stages of research.

Only actual plant-research experiments that simulate conditions in Mars's gravity and pressure can answer those questions.

Powered by two solar panels pointed toward the sun the lab would rotate at two revolutions per minute (rpm) simulating Mars's gravity.

One section could house the crew and another the plants in experimental growing media such as simulated Mars soil or fluid for hydroponic gardening.

The lab section would have to replicate the atmospheric pressure suggested for future Mars habitats by Dr. Robert Zubrin President of The Mars Society.

Under conditions similar to those expected on Mars plant studies could determine which species would thrive and

and orbit control system part of its onboard systems bus. Engineers could configure this system to emulate Mars'gravity.

Indeed the Mars Gravity Biosatellite competition (created by the Mars Society following a brainstorm session between Dr. Zubrin

That project which focused on studying mammals in Mars gravity could possibly be adapted for the study of plants.

Even without such studies it is still possible to speculate about food sources for Mars settlers.

and mizuna lettuce in space along with carbohydrate staples like wheat and rice. All would be likely choices as mainstay foods

if they can thrive under Mars-like conditions. Mars will lack direct sunlight and other sources of nutrients that people take for granted here On earth.

At least in the early years Red planet residents will not have access to fruits containing Vitamin c so they would have to rely on vitamins

just as astronauts do today. All of the above-mentioned crops can grow hydroponically to conserve space and resources.

Some experiments growing plants in simulated Martian soil have met also with success. In addition to providing a food source greenery offers the added benefits of converting carbon dioxide exhaled by settlers into oxygen essential for maintaining a long-term bio-regenerative life support system.

Plants also provide the psychological benefits of relaxation and a general sense of well-being. On to what probably drew the reader to this article in the first place:

Mars settlers could also turn to grasshoppers as an additional food resource. While not popular in most European countries and the Anglo-sphere grasshoppers are a major source of animal protein in Asia Africa and South america.

Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.

The insects could become part of the Mars culture too. Future settlers on the Red planet would likely come from all over the world

and many would not suffer from the Eeeew factor many Westerners associate with eating insects.

So grasshoppers may become a meat staple for Mars residents. Of course this would depend upon the guaranteed reliability of grasshopper containment systems.

Mars settlers certainly would not fare well with the grasshopper equivalent of Star trek's tribbles.

While the exact forms that agriculture would take on Mars are still very much an unknown at least one thing is clear:

Before many years have passed Mars settlers certainly will have developed their own unique cuisine. Turnbull's most recent Op-Ed was Why Robots May be the Future of Interplanetary Research.

This version of the article was published originally on Space. com. o

#The Natural Way to Keep Fruit Fresh and Stop the Rot (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.

and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:

hydroponics or aeroponics and environmental controls that regulate temperature humidity and light to produce vegetables fruits and other crops year-round.

This increases efficiency not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely making more efficient use of space.

Nature Newspolicy Events Funding Research Business The week ahead Number crunch News maker Policy Spaceflight review:

The US panel charged with reviewing NASA's human spaceflight programme issued its final report last week,

such as bypassing human exploration of the Moon and scrapping the Ares -I rocket in favour of commercial space flights, had already been aired in public meetings (see Nature 460,791;

2009). ) European research reform: The European commission has agreed that a top scientist should lead the administrative and managerial activities of the European Research Council (ERC), in place of the commission's current appointee, economist Andreu Mas-Colell.

Mercury deadline: The US Environmental protection agency (EPA) has agreed to set new rules governing emissions of mercury and other toxic chemicals from power plants by November 2011,

they are talking about apples and oranges and Porsches and whales and moons, he says.

Venus probe flop In a bitter disappointment for Japan's space agency, its Akatsuki spacecraft failed to enter orbit around Venus on 6 december.

The probe was intended to monitor the hot planet's atmosphere but must now wait six years for another chance to reach orbit.

See page 882 for more. Policy NIH access A key panel of advisers to the US National institutes of health (NIH) voted last week to open the Clinical Center 墉 the agency's huge research hospital in Bethesda, Maryland

Events Private spaceflight success Spacex (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) has become the first private firm to launch a spacecraft into orbit and return it to Earth.

and food security in response to climate change in the region. go. nature. com/b4gqxb 2 december Commercial spaceflight company Spacex, of Hawthorne, California,

That amalgam is heated then, often in frying pans over open flames in non-ventilated spaces, to boil off the mercury and leave gold behind.

and there is concern about the potentially adverse effects of these changes on life on the planet.

private research and development exceeding the level achieved at the height of the space race. That s why, under the Recovery Act, my administration enacted the largest research and development increase in our nation s history.

Can I Buy The Moon? Can I buy the moon? For now at least the moon is like the sea:

everyone can use it but no one can own it. In 1967 the U s. and the Soviet union negotiated the Outer space Treaty

which states that no nation can own a piece of the moon or an asteroid.

You have a right to go up and take the lunar soil but you don't have any right to draw a square on the surface of the moon

and say'That square is mine'says Stephen E. Doyle a retired lawyer who served as NASA's Deputy Director of Internal Affairs.

If the Space Settlement Institute which lobbies for private industry to develop land on other planets has its way new laws will allow space colonists to stake moon claims

and start a colony. Alan Wasser the Space Settlement Institute's chairman says that a private company should build a spaceline similar to an airline between the Earth and moon.

And because a corporation is not a nation the Outer space Treaty would not apply. Corporations have settled new worlds before.

The London Company was a joint stock enterprise that established the Jamestown Settlement in 1607providing transportation to pioneers in return for seven years of labor in America where they cultivated tobacco and other crops for the company's profit.

and the promise of profits based on it is a necessary incentive to invest in space settlement.

He is lobbying for legislation that would commit the U s. government to honor future moon claims.

But anyone can buy a deed to land on the moon right now. The Lunar Registry (Earth's leading lunar real-estate agency) sells such deeds on its website for about $20 an acre.

Doyle says that future moon settlers could look to the Antarctic Treaty which designates the continent as a scientific preserve

Anybody who understands the implications of imposing a national law on celestial bodies Doyle says understands we are better to treat it like Antarctica

and extend them to outer space. Have a science question you've always wondered about? Send an email to fyi@popsci. comthis article originally appeared on Popularscience. com September 1 2011. yeah agreed...

lets go mine the stars...i think treating the moon like the Antartic is a terrible idea

I think the Manhattan scenario is much mroe ideal. If there becomes a valuable commodity (ie.

Helium 3 or whatever it is there will be significant interest in the moon and then maybe asteriods in the belt for metal and material. having a lucrative reason for space is the only way we will start to colonize it.

Anyone want to start a venture? Bull crap. If you can go there and defend it.

U s. and the Soviet union negotiated the Outer space Treaty...I would guess countries like Japan China India

and have their ideas of the recourses of the moon. It should be really interesting as more countries venture

and establish themselves in space. The GOLD RUSH will be on! so to speak. With this logic the moon will have a Jamestown effect more than an Antartic one.

There are people who truly desire to live on an extraterrestrial world or in space. For this they would definitely wish to lay claim to land

and control it. If comapnies buy land it will be to the benefit of those companies

This will in turn cause the formation a of moon based sovereignty or sovereignties that no longer adhere to the global authority of Earth.

Treating the moon like Antartica would denote that people only go there to work and not to live.

While the moon is a harsh environment (like the arctic) it is also the first base ground for expanding human civilization due to the increased number of humans in existence (we all eventually will not be able to fit on this one world.

That's why eventually the moon will be its own sovereignty (in due time) along with whatever other worlds we populate.

Coming soon to a planet near you. Avatar or Warhammer 40k anyone?@@Wolff Laarcencivilization is imperialism.

The Fact that there is not a governing body on the moon telling you buy land from it pretty much makes it where you dont have to buy land on it.

It is not the world's land it's the moon's. The only reason the idea that we would have to buy such land is to claim that land for a nation.

If I went to the moon and had the affordability to do so to colonize it

The moon colony would become its own nation and maybe it would become allies with the world's most importantly the most resourceful.

Boka we are civilized a little more than playing firsties with the moon. There should have to be established some sort of public area before any land can be handed out for private use.

I doubt there will be lot of demand for outdoor space...at firstfrom the movie RIDICK YOU CAN KEEP

Since living in space has not really truly been established. I think if you can plot you acre

or more on the moon and live there say 1 year it s your land.

FOR a cheap 5$ an acre price I can sell you any plot of land on the moon you desire!!

If you visit the moon and come back to earth you can't own it. But if you send a robot to mine the surface

@trout007 Sir there is no life on the moon as I sure you know. If a human lives there for say 1 year;

Really 1 year on the moon. That would truly be an accomplishment yes. In the history of settling the west barb wire came later and many a homestead had no such wire but simple stakes in the ground.

Luckily the cattle are not a consideration for the land of the moon. I think the real goal would be to mine Helium3 if possible.

But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold

. i think i would rather buy land underwater lol faster to get to cheaper to get done lots of unused space

I'm setting up a nice little vacation spot on the moon. Any takers? I wonder if other readers found this article amusing

I would love to own a piece of the moon! Its seems as I step out of the shower and pass the mirror

Do you know why the crack in your moon goes up and down. Well if it went side ways as a child you would go Blub-de-blub-de-blug all the way down the slide...

But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold...

I have heard in other science articles of water being trapped in the minerals of the moon.

if the conditions pressure and maybe having some depth in the ground of the moon there could be a underground lake of sorts trapped pool of water.

Part of the point of the article is about use of land of the moon and the descussion of ownership.

Some scientist have suggested in theory that life could have been brought to earth via its falling asteroids. I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun

and made the earth and the moon. Upon inspection of the material of the moon it seems its material is identical to the surface minerals to the earth.

So taking all this into consideration perhaps in the depth of the moon deep down in its mineral stricter is contained a pool of trapped water protected from the vacuum of the space.

This pool trapped water being also in the depths of the moon is fluid in nature

and also because of the depth pressure and gravity of the moon it is warm water.

Combine that the moon is made of the same material as the earth and has been around for billions of years.

If there existed a pool of water in the depths of the moon it also possible it may contain life in it.

Now go 100 years into the future when extreme many countries of our earth are working in space and on the moon.

Take a country of the same leadership as say the leaders of North korea. This country is very successful in technology

and wants to establish a business and base on the moon. The take a very advance satellite and find a gigantic pool of water deep in the moon.

So the make a base station on the moon and begin drilling to tap this water.

The leaders of this country first goal are greed of and they just want to exploit the recourses they find on the moon.

So they drill to the lake and quickly start making good use of this water.

The workers of the moon eventually come back home to earth and spread across the earth these new bacteria.

The idea of who owns the moon and how it is exploited also sets the ideas of Mars

and any other recourse we find in the skyã¢Â# This really does affect the entire human race on earth. $20 an acre is way too cheap.

I imagine Astroboy enjoys science and the stars though; probably have lots of energy as well. I'm 98%sure the moon landings were faked.

They could not get there in the 60's because the technology did not exist to shield astronauts from the solar wind.

We might be able to go to the moon one day soon technology has increased vastly since the 60's especially force field tech.@

when they said they sent humans to orbit the moon. Everything on the moon the rovers the flag the mirror could have been placed there by probes.

although no earth based telescopes have observed them) I repeat the Apollo missions were the only missions to leave LEO (low earth orbit).

They can t the radiation in space is DEADLY. Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun

and cannot go to the moon. But in the future space travel to the moon and mars will be possible.

With the invention of a working force field (electromagnetic) also bladders filled with water or slush in the structure of spacecraft to reduce the impact of the solar wind.

This is the future of space crafthttp://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nautilus-XNOW compare that with the pod that was sent not to the moon.

That s why we will be able to travel to the moon in the future and why they couldn t do it in the 60 saight Aldron

I don't think you understand the universe that we live in. I'm working on a physics degree right now and

And we DID in fact land on the moon the proof is in the retroreflectors that we can use on a regular basis to measure (with extreme precision) with lasers the distance between Earth and the moon.

more likely than a scifi fantasy universe where creatures who feed on emotions come out of portals in reality

if only one or 2 nations poseess the capability for advanced space flight and precious resources are discovered.

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