Nomad Life 4 and NASA's Fungus Habitats
My life as a nomad and self healing lunar facilities
Nomad Life
At the end of January, I was once again forced to move into another property. I had only been at the previous house Airbnb for 2 weeks before looking for another place. This time, it was a place that was hosted by a Superhost. This meant that she was highly rated and was constantly busy. One of the main reasons I chose to live there for a month was not just because I knew the host would be good but because every room was decorated with a theme. The 2 that I saw for rent were The Toucan Room and Little India. Each room had a custom painting by the Superhost which just showed why this host was not just a host, but a super host.
Even the bathroom has a theme. When I was staying there is was the Cat bathroom. Now, it is the Flamingo Bathroom.
I ended up staying in the Toucan room since I liked the color scheme and the thought of going to an island vacation helped to distract me from the hellscape that was my life. But I had the hope that my deal would go through and help me save thousands of dollars a month, thereby accelerating my path to financial freedom.
After the deal died, I did some research to find out why the deal had died. It was revealed that the paperwork I sent the insurance agent was not the correct info. I was supposed to send him the wind mitigation report and the 4-point inspection. These were more basic inspection reports that the insurance company would use to determine the amount of insurance required for me to pay. What I sent was the entire inspection report which ended up making the insurance company freak out and jack up the prices on the insurance. This caused the loan to fail since it just barely went over my debt to income ratio. This is why the deal died. About 4 months of work had just gone down the drain, all because I sent the wrong inspection report. What makes it even more tragic is that when I called the inspector to see where the actual reports I was supposed to have gotten were, they said that they forgot to send it to me. I guess I should have seen the writing on the wall. The lender really did not like the tiny home that was on the property and the seller was going to have to move that away, then move it back once the deal went through. That, plus the fact that it had taken me this long to get to that point meant that I should have cut my losses early since the property was clearly unobtainable.
The consequences of the deal dying were as follows:
I lost my $5000 Earnest Money Deposit.
I have no permeant place to live.
I had to live in yet another Airbnb, purely because someone had already booked the day after my 1 month reservation. Even though I still had a few weeks left, it was going to be moving time soon.
to be cont.
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NASA's Fungus Habitats
In the last edition, I spoke about a NIAC program that was looking to combine nuclear electric and nuclear thermal engines into one that will allow humans to fly to Mars in only 45 days. See that below.
NIAC was created to help fund visionary and innovative scientific missions that are not practical, yet. Once of these projects I heard about was NASA’s interest in building lunar facilities with mushrooms that would regrow from damage and be self healing. Seriously. The group in charge of this research is located in the NASA Ames facility. This is a research facility in the heart of California’s Silicon valley. They are also involved in a group called iGEM. This stands for international Genetically Engineered Machine, which was a student competition involving synthetic biology. The project I am now speaking about is their desire to use the roots of the fungus called Mycelium.
The landing site they had chosen, if the mission was sent to Mars, would have access to ice, be a more stable temperature, since it is on the equator, and have a thicker atmosphere to protect the area from radiation. The building of the base using the fungus is very adaptive. The Mycelium roots can be altered to produce enzymes and polymers that can have a wide variety on how they get used. One example is to inflate a habitat and use the fungi to hold and attach the parts together. Another is to use the fungi as a hard brick that can be built like a traditional masonry brick building.
However, the groups preferred method is the bioHab model which uses an inflatable bag containing the fungi, nitrogen and water. The bag gets inflated by a rover, then the insides of the wall are flooded with the fungi and water mix. Once combined the fungi hardens into a concrete like substance that helps to strengthen the walls.
To make this super fungus even more incredible, the fungus can be turned into materials that imitate wood and leather. This means that you can finally chill out on Mars on a Mars red couch and watch movies about black holes.
Now, I mentioned that these facilities can self heal. It was found that a blue laser spurs the Mycelium to join back together, meaning that even if it is a thick concrete block and develops a crack, you can easily repair it.
Radiation protection and water filtration was also looked at and it seems that these applications are promising. As much as I would have loved the future human Martians to live in Smurf Style houses, I guess fungus laden concrete is a close second.
Smurf Village, credit: VicGeorge2K9 via Smurf Wikipedia)
To learn more, see the video below.
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resources:
https://www.airbnb.com/users/show/122819098
https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Smurf_Village
https://vimeo.com/showcase/11008714/video/912816496#t=4443s