DARPA wants your thoughts about “big mechanical space structures”

Hello, random question, but do you have any ideas for vibrant mechanical structures that can be cultivated in the smallest gravity you were sitting on? Just ask on behalf of the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has developed a Request information (RFI) this week Searching for general inputs on its plan to create “large biological space structures”.

DARPA, which regularly Dabbles In an attempt to convert science fiction into science, he says he is interested in exploring methods of “developing” biological structures of “in advance” – up to 500 meters or larger – which can be used to build infrastructure in space. According to the Agency RFI, he hopes to develop structures that “put biology as a supplementary component of space assembly”, which definitely seems ambitious!

In order to convert your gears (I think brain gears will be calculated as a vital mechanical structure), DarPA Have you presented some ideas? Consideration of “structures that can be manufactured and assembled biologically”. It includes Tethers for space elevator, nets networks to capture orbital debris, wide intervention standards (tools that use electromagnetic intervention to measure surfing) for radio science, space stations wings, and adhesive correction materials upon request to repair damage during flying.

To give a better idea than DarPa believes this might seem at the end, the agency said it is worth imagining a tent as an likeness. “Given the structural material of the tent columns, it is imagined that the mechanisms of biological growth are the“ cover ”of the tent.

Now, this may give you the entirety of lovecraftian or evoke something you might see if you can look at John Carptter’s mind. But it is assumed that DarPa wants something that does not arouse the endless fear and terrorism that indicates that we have made a wonderfully great material that we cannot control or escape – they did not specify that, but let’s support it is implicit. For me, it seems like a person in DarPa in Megalopolis and would like to make MeghalonThe vital adaptation materials that Adam wants to use to create a utopia.

We will get a better idea of ​​what DarPa puts in April, where the agency plans to host a workshop in the Gulf region, where it will discuss relevant research with its goal of creating large biological spacecraft. If you have a naturally growing type that can be formed in a developmentable brown, book a trip to San Francisco so that you can show DarPa what you have.