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hunter

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1. It's pretty much punctured the idea of closed ecosystems in outer space.

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Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:48 AM

Mar 2024

If we are ever so foolish as to build human outposts on Mars they'll be more like a submarines than greenhouse gardens.

Maintaining robust human habitable micro-ecosystems is going to be much more difficult than we thought.

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It's pretty much punctured the idea of closed ecosystems in outer space. hunter Mar 2024 #1

And for some reason... 2naSalit Mar 2024 #2

I visited in the late 90s mike_c Mar 2024 #3