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[Interview] New Research Suggests Building Moon Infrastructure with Potato Starch
Universe Today Podcast
English - March 22, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 238 ratingsAstronomy Science Natural Sciences astronomy science nasa cosmology earth mars moon galaxy cosmos astronaut Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Scientists came up with a method to produce concrete on the Moon and Mars using potato starch. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Aled Roberts, who is the Principle Investigator of this research.
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00:00 Intro
01:06 Building materials from biomaterials
07:06 Challenges of building on the Moon and Mars
10:20 From human blood to potato starch
19:02 How to implement the tech
26:46 DNA manipulation
32:36 Alternative applications
38:00 Outro
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Scientists came up with a method to produce concrete on the Moon and Mars using potato starch. In this interview, I'm talking with Dr Aled Roberts, who is the Principle Investigator of this research.
🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday
00:00 Intro
01:06 Building materials from biomaterials
07:06 Challenges of building on the Moon and Mars
10:20 From human blood to potato starch
19:02 How to implement the tech
26:46 DNA manipulation
32:36 Alternative applications
38:00 Outro
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/xC7jFJYodIY
📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.
Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter
🎧 PODCASTS
Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/
Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/
🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain
Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday
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📩 CONTACT FRASER
[email protected]
⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)