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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2486653-bioplastic-habitats-on-mars-could-be-built-from-algae
The idea of 3D-printing bioplastic habitats is about a decade old, but the new experiment shows that these really could sustain life, says Amor Menezes at the University of Florida. “This is tremendously exciting. A journey to Mars, and a stay on Mars, will be roughly a couple of years long, so we can’t take everything with us,” he says. “This shows that bioplastics can potentially support life in Mars-like conditions, and maybe that a lot of useful objects during a Martian stay could be bioplastic.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp4985
The idea of 3D-printing bioplastic habitats is about a decade old, but the new experiment shows that these really could sustain life, says Amor Menezes at the University of Florida. “This is tremendously exciting. A journey to Mars, and a stay on Mars, will be roughly a couple of years long, so we can’t take everything with us,” he says. “This shows that bioplastics can potentially support life in Mars-like conditions, and maybe that a lot of useful objects during a Martian stay could be bioplastic.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp4985
