I have seen a few of these 'closed worlds' recently, The Eden project is managing to recreate the environments need to enable certain plant life that would otherwise not live in this country. Obviously we are still in the first step to fully manufacturing a whole world, but many think this is one step nearer to, for example, living on Mars. Starting with the plantlife isn't easy but by all means is a lot easier than Humans ( just look at Big Brother to see that people just can't cope for 8 or so weeks, let alone years! )
One thing that i found ammusing is that the one thing that we can't do yet is make food last long enough to keep. Just looking through my cupboards i can agree, Flour out of date months ago , Peppercorns also a few months out of date and I didnt even go look in the fridge! Now if i can't manage to keep food in date on this planet I wouldnt want to be the one trying to keep fresh bread on Mars!
Good luck to them, if someone can create plants that live 5 times as long, I'm gonna buy a few.... after 3 weeks of me forgetting to water them they're still alive! Just what i need.
Closed Worlds - BBC Radio4
One thing that i found ammusing is that the one thing that we can't do yet is make food last long enough to keep. Just looking through my cupboards i can agree, Flour out of date months ago , Peppercorns also a few months out of date and I didnt even go look in the fridge! Now if i can't manage to keep food in date on this planet I wouldnt want to be the one trying to keep fresh bread on Mars!
Good luck to them, if someone can create plants that live 5 times as long, I'm gonna buy a few.... after 3 weeks of me forgetting to water them they're still alive! Just what i need.
Closed Worlds - BBC Radio4