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Revision as of 12:04, 24 June 2015
Moss… In space!
Exploring beyond Earth requires technological innovations, both industrial and for sustaining life in a hostile environment. Mars is an extremely hostile environment for any organism to survive. There is very little oxygen, high levels of radiation, and dangerous substances in the soil. Astronauts could live out their lives never touching martian soil, but our ambition is much more than astronauts living in metal boxes.
We plan to use moss to transform the surface of mars to a habitable environment. Moss is the Chuck Norris of the plant kingdom. Capable of surviving extreme conditions and living off of very few nutrients, moss can even grow on the bare rock.
Our motivation for exploring space is quite simple. It's completely new! There is literally a lot of space! Our planetary system has a tremendous amount of physical resources. But it's more than that.
Can we inspire a generation of people, inundated by every good idea ever thought, that there actually are entire worlds which are unexplored? The necessary means of connecting with these worlds has not been created, the tools and machines to explore, exploit, and create as well, so let's get on with it.