[SpaceProgram] You’ve been selected as Space Apps 2016 Top 25 People’s Choice: cress.space – a growing community

Mon May 16 10:05:57 CEST 2016

Whether intentional or not, the choice of watercress could be very
space-relevant.

(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.

(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.

(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);

(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.)

(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.

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.

Regards,
Michael Turner
Executive Director
Project Persephone
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Michael Turner <
michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I think I get it now. It was mainly just unclear quoting, it seems
>
> So, because
>
> (1) I'm actually very interested in this kind of project,
> (2) I didn't want to seem like too much of a dick with my first message
> about it,
> (3) I don't have immediately applicable tech skills, but ....
> (4) communication in written English doesn't seem to be their strong point,
>
> ... I contributed a patch to their English documentation:
>
>
> https://github.com/aerospaceresearch/cress-doc/compare/master...Yakushima:patch-1
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael Turner
> Executive Director
> Project Persephone
> K-1 bldg 3F
> 7-2-6 Nishishinjuku
> Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
> Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140
> Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158
> Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682
> turner at projectpersephone.org
> http://www.projectpersephone.org/
>
> "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
> together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The sender is aerospaceresearch.net which IS cress.space as far as I can
>> see, so maybe just happy to notify us that they won something related to
>> space...
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> *Otherwise, I will close the group in 7 days.*
>>
>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:43 AM, David <ainut at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>>> And that's the point.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/15/2016 08:31 PM, cole santos wrote:
>>>
>>> Weird
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 14, 2016, David <ainut at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All expense  paid one way trip to Mars?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/14/2016 05:22 PM, Michael P Weber II wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Constellation
>>>>> <constellation at aerospaceresearch.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You’ve been selected as Space Apps 2016 Top 25 People’s Choice:
>>>>>> cress.space
>>>>>> – a growing community
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of the 161 People’s Choice nominations of NASA’s Space Apps Challenge
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> year, our Stuttgart’s cress.space project rose to the top. The NASA
>>>>>> jury
>>>>>> loved your „creative interpretation of the challenge“ and informed us
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> their nomintation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Congratulations Team cress.space!!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/mars/simspace/projects/cress.space
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The cress.space team worked hard during the 48h hackathon to create
>>>>>> autonomous farming, through machine learning on basis on collaborative
>>>>>> gaming for off-earth as well as on-earth applications.
>>>>>> For achieving this, they set-up a demonstrator green-house that will
>>>>>> be used
>>>>>> as the baseline farming hardware for our game.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Voting for the People’s Choice Top 25 semi-finalists will begin
>>>>>> Monday, May
>>>>>> 9th at 2 p.m. Eastern and will be open through Sunday, May 15th at 2
>>>>>> p.m.
>>>>>> Eastern. At this time, Space Apps will take a break to verify the
>>>>>> votes
>>>>>> before moving forward with the Top 5 finalists, which will be open
>>>>>> for votes
>>>>>> the following week.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How Voting Works:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Voting will take place on a special ballot page:
>>>>>> https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/vote
>>>>>> 2. The awards page will display the Leaderboard + all the other
>>>>>> nominees:
>>>>>> https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/awards
>>>>>> 3. Citizens who already have an account on SpaceAppsChallenge.org can
>>>>>> vote.
>>>>>> Others will need to sign up for an account.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://youtu.be/AtgGzsYLNig?list=PL-lXf3kTWgqyLqUTS2V2gDnFciildD3B9
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you like this growing community, fork our open-source code on
>>>>>> github and
>>>>>> start growing your own plants in your very own green-house, and
>>>>>> please also
>>>>>> consider voting for the team. The team that makes it to the end will
>>>>>> receive
>>>>>> invitations to attend a launch, most likely in September at the
>>>>>> Kennedy
>>>>>> Space Center.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For more information about all 3 projects teams worked on, visit the
>>>>>> Space
>>>>>> Apps Stuttgart 2016 location page. There is even one more runner for
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> global nomination to be hopefully revealed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks so much for taking part in Space Apps 2016!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Original
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://aerospaceresearch.net/index.php/2016/05/08/spaceapps2016top_cressspace/
>>>>>>
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