#astroecology

Selfie & Told: i Soviet Malpensa raccontano l’ultimo disco Astroecology

“Non c’è più ordine/ Se bruci il limite/ Asperger e Tourette/ Asociale puoi vivere// Luna piena di luce/ Eremita sull’Everest/ Avere tutto è impossibile/ Ma so ancora ridere” ‒ “Everest (Manifesto Asociale)”

Soviet Malpensa

Siamo i Soviet Malpensa, band nata una decina di anni fa sotto le scie di scarico dei Boeing 737.

Nel corso del tempo c’è stato un avvicendamento di molti membri nella band: q…

Soviet Malpensa, “Astroecology”: la recensione

Si chiama Astroecology il nuovo disco dei Soviet Malpensa, band nata tra le province di Milano e Varese. Dopo aver realizzato alcuni lavori autoprodotti (Musica elettrificata da ascoltare nei boschi nel 2008 e Requiem per i discografici italiani nel 2010), registrati in totale autonomia, si classificano tra i finalisti di diversi concorsi nazionali e regionali, ai quali fa seguito la…

Soviet Malpensa, “Astroecology”: la recensione

Si chiama Astroecology il nuovo disco dei Soviet Malpensa, band nata tra le provincie di Milano e Varese. Dopo aver realizzato alcuni lavori autoprodotti (“Musica elettrificata da ascoltare nei boschi” nel 2008 e “Requiem per i discografici italiani” nel 2010), registrati in totale autonomia, la band si classifica tra i finalisti di diversi concorsi nazionali e regionali, ai quali fa seguito la…

5.4. ASTROBIO - Could We Be Martians?

Week three of the University of Edinburgh's "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" (ASTROBIO) open online course. Prof Charles Cockell School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh

Scientist growing asparagus out of a meteor

"As the colonization of outer space by the human race inches closer, the space industry is grappling with the thorny issue of how to feed future interplanetary residents. One astroecologist has been experimenting with growing plants in meteorite dust with some success. Professor Michael Mautner of Virginia Commonwealth University has been studying which crops function best when plopped in ground-up asteroid offshoots. The results, as you can probably imagine, depend from meteorite to meteorite."

"People have been talking about terraforming, but what I'm trying to do is give some concrete evidence that it's possible to do this, that it's possible to grow in extraterrestrial materials," Michael Mautner, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher and one of the world's only "astroecologists" told me. "What I've found is that a range of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, and even asparagus and potato plants—can survive with the nutrients that are in extraterrestrial materials."

"Life Beyond Earth" --Astroecology Research Offers New Insights

"We seek a higher meaning to our existence, and these insights allow us to define one," says Michael Mautner, Ph.D., a research professor of chemistry in the Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCollege of Humanities and Sciences, who studies how life might expand beyond Earth. "Belonging to organic gene/protein life implies that a human purpose is to safeguard and propagate life. This purpose is best achieved in space. Astroecology shows that with space resources, life can endure for trillions of future eons and expand greatly in the galaxy in quantity and diversity, and culturally."

Philosophers have realized since antiquity that life is special, and that we have strong bonds to other living beings. Science now gives an even deeper meaning to these ideas. We now know that every organism, from microbes to humans, share the beautifully complex mechanisms of biology, that the laws of nature precisely allow this complex life to exist and that all life pursues common goals of survival and reproduction.