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Man-Made leaf could be the first step to space colonization

Darth Biscuit

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http://www.cnet.com/news/this-man-made-breathing-leaf-is-an-oxygen-factory-for-space-travel/

 

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Royal College of Art graduate Julian Melchiorri has created the first man-made, biologically functional leaf that takes in carbon dioxide, water, and light and releases oxygen. The leaf consists of chloroplasts -- the part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens -- suspended in body made of silk protein.   "This material has an amazing property of stabilizing (the chloroplast) organelles," Melchiorri says in the video below. "As an outcome I have the first photosynthetic material that is living and breathing as a leaf does."

 

 

 

 

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Wouldn't the first step to colonization be I don't know being able to leave our own Earth/moon area?

 

Woohoo we went to the moon now lets stay in low orbit for the next 30 years.

 

Well we kinda sorta have the means to do that, but being able to have breathable atmosphere is a pretty big deal.

 

But no, we're not colonizing the next star system yet or anything...

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Mmmmnnn, can you know.... these people.... create this other leaf... that you dry and smoke... ;)

 

Bitch please. Before this part of Colorado became Weedbucks it was a huge agriculture center. Lots of beans and corn grown here. If they didn't require high security for growing just one field, 1 square mile, would be enough to last us at least three days. We've already gotten it down to a science. 

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