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Thursday, March 18, 2021
CONTEXT: Asteroid Eating Fungus!
Some of these ideas sound wacky, but this is precisely the kind of thing NASA (if it exists at all) should be doing: exploring and pioneering risky but potentially big-payoff technologies at low technology readiness levels where modest seed funding can rule out those that aren't worth pursuing and mature those that are to the point industry can develop them further. This is was what NASA's predecessor, the NACA, did with great success for decades.
Posted at March 18, 2021 14:13