<div dir="ltr">Whether intentional or not, the choice of watercress could be very space-relevant.<br><br>(1) Biosphere II saw the direct participation of the late Roy Walford, MD, a pioneer self-experimenter in CRON (calorie restriction with optimal nutrition) as a strategy for life extension. This research interested the Biosphere II organizers because, in feeding long-duration space mission participants, fewer calories eaten means, to a good first approximation, less mass for the ecological life support system, leading to lower mission cost, etc.<div><br></div><div>(2) Research into how CRON appears to increase lifespans (in part by reducing cancer risk -- a big issue in space travel because of space radiation) reveals that it's more about protein restriction than about calorie restriction per se.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(3) Further research has suggested that it's specifically reduction of methionine intake that is the main driver of life extension in CRON (hence, presumably, lower cancer risk);<br><br>(4) High-glycine diets sop up excess methionine. (To be sure: methionine is an essential amino acid; glycine is not. But it seems that with methionine, you can get too much of a good thing.)<br><br>(5) Watercress is very high in glycine, quite low in methionine. Watercress might be ideal for offsetting the cancer risks from space radiation in long-duration space missions.<br><br>I think a good next step in such work would be to try to optimize watercress production in an aeroponic rather than a hydroponic style. Hydroponics is great, highly productive, but ... water is heavy. Aeroponics can give you much of the benefit of hydroponics but with a fraction of the equipment mass. Aeroponics should be more adaptable to low-g and microgravity environments since it's not gravity-dependent -- it's basically just the deposition of nutrient-enriched mist droplets on plant roots. Aeroponics may have gotten its start from NASA funding.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Regards,<br>Michael Turner<br>Executive Director<br>Project Persephone<br>K-1 bldg 3F<br>7-2-6 Nishishinjuku<br>Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023<br>Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140<br>Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158<br>Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682<br><a href="mailto:turner@projectpersephone.org" target="_blank">turner@projectpersephone.org</a><br><a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.projectpersephone.org/</a><br><br>"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Michael Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">OK, I think I get it now. It was mainly just unclear quoting, it seems<div><br></div><div>So, because<br><br>(1) I'm actually very interested in this kind of project,</div><div>(2) I didn't want to seem like too much of a dick with my first message about it,<br></div><div>(3) I don't have immediately applicable tech skills, but ....<br>(4) communication in written English doesn't seem to be their strong point,<br><br>... I contributed a patch to their English documentation:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/aerospaceresearch/cress-doc/compare/master...Yakushima:patch-1" target="_blank">https://github.com/aerospaceresearch/cress-doc/compare/master...Yakushima:patch-1</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div>Regards,<br>Michael Turner<br>Executive Director<br>Project Persephone<br>K-1 bldg 3F<br>7-2-6 Nishishinjuku<br>Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023<br>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1140" value="+81368901140" target="_blank">+81 (3) 6890-1140</a><br>Fax: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1158" value="+81368901158" target="_blank">+81 (3) 6890-1158</a><br>Mobile: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%2890%29%205203-8682" value="+819052038682" target="_blank">+81 (90) 5203-8682</a><br><a href="mailto:turner@projectpersephone.org" target="_blank">turner@projectpersephone.org</a><br><a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.projectpersephone.org/</a><br><br>"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Ricky Ng-Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rngadam@gmail.com" target="_blank">rngadam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The sender is <a href="http://aerospaceresearch.net" target="_blank">aerospaceresearch.net</a> which IS cress.space as far as I can see, so maybe just happy to notify us that they won something related to space...<div><br></div><div>BTW, this list was originally for the controversial DARPA program from years ago that we ended up not following up due to opposition from hackerspaces to receiving military money...</div><div><br></div><div>It may still have people that are interested by the relationship of outer space and hackerspaces. I'm still the group owner and it may still have people that are interested by space and hackerspaces in general. If anyone wants to take ownership, I'll be happy to transfer the ownership. Probably requires rebranding, updating the mission and advertising of the group. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Otherwise, I will close the group in 7 days.</b></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:43 AM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">ainut@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016, David <<a href="mailto:ainut@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">ainut@hiwaay.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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paid one way trip to Mars?<br>
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Constellation<br>
<<a>constellation@aerospaceresearch.net</a>>
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You’ve been selected as Space Apps 2016 Top 25 People’s
Choice: cress.space<br>
– a growing community<br>
<br>
Of the 161 People’s Choice nominations of NASA’s Space
Apps Challenge this<br>
year, our Stuttgart’s cress.space project rose to the top.
The NASA jury<br>
loved your „creative interpretation of the challenge“ and
informed us about<br>
their nomintation.<br>
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Congratulations Team cress.space!!!!<br>
<a href="https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/mars/simspace/projects/cress.space" target="_blank">https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/mars/simspace/projects/cress.space</a><br>
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The cress.space team worked hard during the 48h hackathon
to create<br>
autonomous farming, through machine learning on basis on
collaborative<br>
gaming for off-earth as well as on-earth applications.<br>
For achieving this, they set-up a demonstrator green-house
that will be used<br>
as the baseline farming hardware for our game.<br>
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Voting for the People’s Choice Top 25 semi-finalists will
begin Monday, May<br>
9th at 2 p.m. Eastern and will be open through Sunday, May
15th at 2 p.m.<br>
Eastern. At this time, Space Apps will take a break to
verify the votes<br>
before moving forward with the Top 5 finalists, which will
be open for votes<br>
the following week.<br>
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How Voting Works:<br>
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1. Voting will take place on a special ballot page:<br>
<a href="https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/vote" target="_blank">https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/vote</a><br>
2. The awards page will display the Leaderboard + all the
other nominees:<br>
<a href="https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/awards" target="_blank">https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/awards</a><br>
3. Citizens who already have an account on
SpaceAppsChallenge.org can vote.<br>
Others will need to sign up for an account.<br>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/AtgGzsYLNig?list=PL-lXf3kTWgqyLqUTS2V2gDnFciildD3B9" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AtgGzsYLNig?list=PL-lXf3kTWgqyLqUTS2V2gDnFciildD3B9</a><br>
<br>
If you like this growing community, fork our open-source
code on github and<br>
start growing your own plants in your very own
green-house, and please also<br>
consider voting for the team. The team that makes it to
the end will receive<br>
invitations to attend a launch, most likely in September
at the Kennedy<br>
Space Center.<br>
<br>
For more information about all 3 projects teams worked on,
visit the Space<br>
Apps Stuttgart 2016 location page. There is even one more
runner for the<br>
global nomination to be hopefully revealed.<br>
<br>
Thanks so much for taking part in Space Apps 2016!!<br>
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Original<br>
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