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"Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get
there, we’ll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials.
As researchers who work on engineering plants to produce such resources in
space, we sometimes get asked: “why?”. With issues such as climate change,
inequality, global pandemics and environmental degradation, shouldn’t we be
focused on Earth, not Mars?
But science can do both. And space research has a long history of not only
satisfying the human instinct of exploration, but delivering transformational
new inventions as we make discoveries along the way."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
