The Wageningen Experience Day is themed ‘ 105 year into the hereafter ' . One researcher whose undivided attention is on the future is Wieger Wamelink . His Food for Mars and Moon labor is almost scientific discipline fiction . Wamelink will discuss his undertaking at duration during the Wageningen Experience Day on October 7 , during which he also joins one of the event ’s two talk - show sessions .
Wamelink was so deal by the inquiry of whether we would be able-bodied to civilise crop on Mars and on the lunation that he initiated the Food for Mars and Moon labor in 2013 . Despite his expertise as an ecologist and exobiologist ( a space farmer , so to talk ) , he does not specially want to trip to Mars . " The trip is much too long ; it take at least six month to get there . I would like to go to the moonshine . That ’s only a two - day trip . Moreover , it is unlikely we will be capable to travel to Mars before 2030 , by which time I will be too old to join one of the first crew . "
The project has choose Wamelink across the globe already and carry on to keep him engaged . Last summertime , he lectured at The Future of Life Sciences Symposium in Utrecht and discussed the question of ' how your poop can feed the cosmos ' during the Docu - Science event ' Holy shit ' on the campus .
solution for space crop farmingAdditionally , this summertime , Wamelink was involve in the Summer School for young researchers and scholarly person . Wamelink : " This program boost them to devise solutions for space crop farming while at the same time considering such topics as energy , health , nutrition , and sustainability . The mornings were appropriate for lectures , while scholarly person were offered the opportunity to contribute to experiments on locations in the Netherlands and China during the afternoons . "
This collaboration yield new insight , says Wamelink . " One of the aim during the Summer School was solving the perchlorate problem . Perchlorate is a toxin discover in Martian territory , which is not present in simulation dirt . The heart is extremely risky to human being and plants . A group of students hail up with an innovational solution . "
The project is still under developing in other areas , too . Wamelink : " A playfulness experiment just roll up by Emke Mooney is rise bamboo in fake Martian soil . That experiment was successful and , to the adept of my noesis , the first of its form . The inherent musical theme is that bamboo grown on Mars and synodic month soil can serve as a construction cloth , while the fiber are worthy for manufacturing habiliment . "
Source : wur.nl
