Thank you for your cordial welcome!!<br><br>Project Icarus is great!! <br><br><br>(->Mars probe: you know this already? <a href="http://www.petridish.org/project_inquiry">http://www.petridish.org/project_inquiry</a> It may someday be helpful. You post your idea and others can donate for it.) <br>
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>Meat produced by plants?! Tell me more ^_^ I've been dreaming of >perfect<br>
>lab-grown steaks for a while ;)<br><br>Well, as I said, at the moment I'm 99% working on bioluminescene. I'm allowed to use our university lab sometimes. <br><br>for meat production, it may be possible to see the RNA expressed in meat tissue and copy that into Agrobacterium tumiefaciens plasmids. <br>
<br>One out of 20 or so plants thus transfected will show growth of meat tissue. Just guessed the number, never worked with agrobac.t. before. Unfortunately. <br><br>But maybe it would be better that not the entire plant is made of meat, but its fruits (water melon with meat inside instead of the red tissue).<br>
If you do it in a DIY / easy way, it won't probably look like a perfect steak, rather like a mixture of apple 'meat' and cow meat. But it contains the same proteins mixed with cellulose/sugars of the plant's fruit tissue.<br>
<br>On the other hand, you wouldn't need any more veggetables added, because in the plant-meat there's already some plant inside ;)<br><br>In-situ resource utilization is surely something we should do. But it's not the usual NASA-approach, unfortunately. <br>
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> Are you part of a local community of group of space enthusiasts?<br>No, unfortunately not. One friend of mine is also enthusiastic about applied sciences (also as a hobby, he studies electrical engineering) <br>We'll send a helium-ballon into the stratosphere soon :) <br>
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