<div>Thanks Máté!</div><div><br></div><div>><span style><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I think a project like this would fit well in hackerspace environment, and would provide very cool results if succeeded: </font></span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>Agreed :)</span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>>we could be the first to monitor a long term habitat of earthlings on the Moon. :)</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>That sounds like a very cool goal for HSP to help achieve!</div><div><br></div><div>Also makes me wonder if a Hackerspace competition to design & build a LIFE Bio-module prototype might be worthwhile? Perhaps even a design that attempts to address the complaint that Phobos LIFE was in violation of the Outer-Space Treaty?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In any case, it might be worth us discussing whether the Outer Space Treaty is something HSP supports, especially when consider the funding of projects:</div><div><br></div>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty</a> <div><br></div><div><br clear="all">Paul<br> <br>Paul Szymkowiak <br><div><a href="http://hackmelbourne.org/" target="_blank">HackMelbourne.org</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 April 2012 22:08, Máté Ravasz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravaszmeister@gmail.com">ravaszmeister@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
@Andreas<br>I'm sorry, I wouldn't want to hijack your original post, but I thought we might share a common interest here.<br><br>Yes, Puli Space is an official competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize for more than a year now ( <a href="http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/team-puli" target="_blank">http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/team-puli</a> ), but we are largely busy with building our rover. So side projects like a capsule with living things is something we don't really have resources for, although we could take it on board if was outsourced at least in part.<br>
<br>My idea would be a small unit, much like the LIFE experiment prepared for the Fobos-Grunt mission ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Interplanetary_Flight_Experiment" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Interplanetary_Flight_Experiment</a> ), but instead of Phobos, we could send it to our Moon.<br>
<br>This could hold lichens, however we could place multiple organisms there including bacteria, archaea and even some eukaryotes (tardigrada are my personal favourites).<br><br>The difference compared to LIFE would be a live monitoring of the samples, either by simply taking liquid cultures of bacteria and measuring optical density from time to time, or by using a mini camera which would take pictures from time to time.<br>
<br>Gotta run now, if this sparks interest, then I am happy to discuss it in more detail, and maybe we can come up with something. I think a project like this would fit well in hackerspace environment, and would provide very cool results if succeded: we could be the first to monitor a long term habitat of earthlings on the Moon. :)<br>
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