AnotherQuark
AnotherQuark t1_j2fbzaq wrote
Reply to comment by gerkletoss in Israeli pens plan for belt of solar panels on moon to power oxygen production. With NASA mulling nuclear reactor to generate energy, Ben Gurion University expert says his idea would produce same amount of power with six times less mass. by Zee2A
Meteorite hell i would imagine. Partially underground reactor seems safer
AnotherQuark t1_j2fbs3n wrote
Reply to comment by gerkletoss in Israeli pens plan for belt of solar panels on moon to power oxygen production. With NASA mulling nuclear reactor to generate energy, Ben Gurion University expert says his idea would produce same amount of power with six times less mass. by Zee2A
Reasonable idea once the moon is saturated with enough humans though.
AnotherQuark t1_j6p3iu5 wrote
Reply to comment by Tyrosine_Lannister in A microbiologist's argument for new probiotics as the most promising frontier in biohacking, medicine, and enhancement-- an "app store" for genes. by Tyrosine_Lannister
I read once that our mammalian ancestors originally took the dna coding needed to evolve a placenta from a virus.
Apparently there's a phenomenon of dna swapping between viruses and their hosts. I realize that viruses work a lot differently than bacteria when it comes to doing what they do, and how they do it. But, i imagine it at least wouldn't be impossible for similar things to happen with other organisms.