This won't enable perpetual space travel in case anyone thought so.
Rockets need to eject particles to generate force.
And to eject 1 kg of fuel, its photo synthesis system has to lose 1 km of mass in one way or another.
The solution is to find a way to generate thrust without rocket fuel ejection.
In my opinion there is still a lot to discover around the manipulation of the environment of plants. Generally speaking its the milieu which has the primary effect on life. Genetic manipulation and environment settings should be applied together to find very specific appliances.
Very intriguing is the Primeval Code[0] in which plants and other life exposed to electrostatic fields changed significantly down to the genome.
Would be very interesting which other artificial settings and compositions affect life in which ways.
Ah, all the great memories of making oxygen in the chem lab. Back when we used to rip the protons, neutrons, and electrons out of Flourine atoms and smash them into Nitrogen atoms until the N turned into O. Back when we made things the old-fashioned way.
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadThere is exceptionally little material info in this article and so very much speculation
Rockets need to eject particles to generate force. And to eject 1 kg of fuel, its photo synthesis system has to lose 1 km of mass in one way or another.
The solution is to find a way to generate thrust without rocket fuel ejection.
This is silly, but also begs the sillier question why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel
Very intriguing is the Primeval Code[0] in which plants and other life exposed to electrostatic fields changed significantly down to the genome.
Would be very interesting which other artificial settings and compositions affect life in which ways.
0. https://rexresearch.com/ebner2/BurginDerUrzeitCode.pdf