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On 16 May 2016 18:26:04 CEST, Michael Turner <michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM, cole santos <cksantos85 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Actually we took the DarPA money and the project was a great success.
>> Www.spacegambit.Com
>
>
>A great success for some people, I suppose.  In a certain sense.
>
>I pick a project at random.
>
>http://www.spacegambit.org/satstatsim/
>
>Funding: $20,000
>
>SpaceGAMBIT claim: only open source projects will be funded.
>
>Reality: well, take a look.
>
>  http://satstatsim.blogspot.jp/
>
>Excuse: "schedules slip". OK, but you can't check in any code,
>anywhere?
>
>  https://code.google.com/archive/p/satstatsim/source
>
>At least, that's the only repo I could find.
>
>There's nothing in it.
>
>It was largely because of my concerns about openness, clear
>communication,
>democratic process, and leadership accountability that I decided to
>have
>nothing further to do with SpaceGAMBIT. This was after feeling
>enthusiastic
>about it and even defending it against what I thought was unfair
>criticism.
>
>Really, I'd prefer to have been wrong in my suspicions.
>
>
>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 Monday, May 16, 2016, Michael P Weber II
><michaelweberii at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Michael Turner
>>> <michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 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
>>> > 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 4:35 PM, Michael Turner
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> Are you going to take over the list then?
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