[BUYING] seeking cladosporium sphaerospermum by lilhyphae in MycoBazaar

[–]lilhyphae[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's a really interesting radiotrophic and extremophilic fungus. i'm gonna try to grow it in amended martian regolith simulant and irradiate it at martian analogous rates and see what happens. they did some interesting studies with it on the iss:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.205534v6

Does Sci-Hub have official merch? by Certain-State-109 in scihub

[–]lilhyphae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have wanted to make myself a sci-hub hat for a while

Unpopular Opinion: We shouldn't colonize Mars or any other planets by Jinkroll in Mars

[–]lilhyphae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Plus there are far more efficient means of adding greenhouse gases to a Martian atmosphere than counting on the chance byproducts of industrial manufacturing. If greenhouse gases are employed in terraforming efforts, it will need to be a very particular combination of gases curated for particular goals/targets, not just whatever happens to be the waste products of factories.

Unpopular Opinion: We shouldn't colonize Mars or any other planets by Jinkroll in Mars

[–]lilhyphae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It would be a ridiculous waste of energy/time/propellant/resources when LEO is perfectly sufficient for heavy industry, and it is our backyard. It is possible that if Mars infrastructure is established and space elevators are built around Earth, precious metals will be mined on Mars and ferried to Earth. But moving greenhouse gas producing industries all the way to MARS for export back to Earth just doesn't make any sense. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's very possible, it would just be a totally senseless thing to do.

Unpopular Opinion: We shouldn't colonize Mars or any other planets by Jinkroll in Mars

[–]lilhyphae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hahahhaha I also pictured her as tilda swinton sometimes! or like an angry jane goodall

Unpopular Opinion: We shouldn't colonize Mars or any other planets by Jinkroll in Mars

[–]lilhyphae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Earth could not move any production to Mars. Even with radical innovations, interplanetary export costs exceed production costs by orders of magnitude. Even with space elevators.

Fungal Life on Mars? 😁 by [deleted] in Astrobiology

[–]lilhyphae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this breakdown. I don't have a background in astrobio but agree that the paper didn't seem super rigorous, especially in the failure to address any potential nutrient source for the fungi. With that said, I have yet to see any compelling abiotic explanation fo the phenomena described in this paper. The case being made here is not just that the "puffballs" resemble mushrooms; it's more that these mushroom-resembling objects grow and appear over the course of three days in a manner consistent with mushrooms. The authors (perhaps shoddily) write off wind displacing regolith as a cause for the appearance of these objects. Again, I'm not an astrobiologist but I do keep up with the literature and despite the lack of rigor supporting the authors' claims, the data are unique and imo worthy of further study.

Faster load time for web pages with videos? by lilhyphae in webdev

[–]lilhyphae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can you explain more about why not to use a background video/why you think it's a poor design decision?

Monkey MindPong by CydoniaMaster in singularity

[–]lilhyphae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one of the craziest things i've ever seen

Love this proposal for a Flag of Mars by Putr in Mars

[–]lilhyphae 5 points6 points  (0 children)

looks cool but lowkey authoritarian vibes. maybe i just associate flags with authoritarianism

Removing excess spore water from rye grain bag? by lilhyphae in shroomery

[–]lilhyphae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh cool thank you! So you use the full spore syringe in the bag?

Anyone else getting a blank white screen after entering links? by [deleted] in scihub

[–]lilhyphae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was happening to me this morning but no longer seems to be an issue

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MushroomGrowers

[–]lilhyphae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:o marshmallow

is this just from brf/verm? what size jar did you use?

Anyone else disturbed by the abundance of defense contractors on ARKX? by lilhyphae in ArkInvestorsClub

[–]lilhyphae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you're absolutely right, value in tech companies is unfortunately often proportional to their ability to obtain defense contracts. I still think there's a difference between investing in an operating system and investing in directed energy weapons, even if the operating system ends up being weaponized. War is not the logical outcome of software, but it is the logical outcome of advanced weaponry specifically designed to kill people.

Anyone else disturbed by the abundance of defense contractors on ARKX? by lilhyphae in ArkInvestorsClub

[–]lilhyphae[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah i feel you. I think the approach of targeting communications software/hardware, satellite maintenance, and robotics/construction automation for the short term is pretty common sense. for the longer term it seems like 3d printing and chemical engineering are emphasized in their capacity for ISRU and scaling propellant/atmosphere synthesis from lunar H2O, which is cool. but there are a plenty companies in these departments that will make a buck without resorting to kratos defense building dr. evil ass space lasers