In this temporary society we are descending a period of changement, a change that goes far beyond the thinking capacity of children that were raised and born in the twentieth century. What was once something futuristic and unthinkable, is already happening in our perception of the truth. This is the point that i would like to discuss, Mars became a possible environment to exhibit, although the context stays very important, if we are able to make work meant for Mars then it would fit. A fellow student of mine just made me aware that I life in a artwork, the Netherlands is manufactured by human hands and therefor shaped and structured for the common people, within this artificial elements human creativity again reshaped and recreated this particular environment. Being conscious of the environment makes you aware of the endless possibilities, in that sense the possibilities of a remote area is the ultimate playing ground for a new format within human existence. Examples like colonization and creating land out of sea, just to increase. This is what we think of it now; to discover planets in the same solar system or other solar systems like Earth. Mars is maybe one of these planets, and humanity is thinking of inhabiting it.
Instead of just exploring this planet with robots, it would be a very symbolic idea to put a tree or plant in a artificial environment on the surface of Mars before the first humans arrive.
Although creating involves usage of materials and by that money, but without exposure there will be no financial support. These day's as artists we need to operate international.
This is the reason that I will send letters to ESA, NASA and to other space agencies, to help me to develop a artificial environment. But not only to develop, also to make a statement. Human existence is made possible by nature, by our ecological environment, the interaction among organisms and their environment, the interaction that organisms have with each other and the interaction with the abiotic environment.
Probably many scientist are already busy with artificial environments, and the creation of an artificial ecology.
In is one of the most intriguing questions that we have, how we can survive after a apocalypse, or if this is never going to happen and life happily with one bung on one planet, how to expand?
Self sustainable ecosystems are the key to success, if we are able to create an artificial environment with a self sustainable ecosystem. we can implement this in the most hostile environments on earth, or anywhere within human reach. This can change our global view, the entire problem of food shortage/supply.
This remembers me of a documentary about rice, a researcher out of Sweden infested millions of euros in a project to genetically manipulate rice plants. He succeeded to implement vitamin A , "Golden rice" is a variety of Oryza sativa rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice
Golden rice was designed to produce beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible part of rice, the endosperm. The rice plant can naturally produce beta-carotene in its leaves, where it is involved in photosynthesis. However, the plant does not normally produce the pigment in the endosperm, where photosynthesis does not occur. A key breakthrough was the discovery that a single phytoene desaturase gene (bacterial CrtI) can be used to produce lycopene from phytoene in GM tomato, rather than having to introduce the multiple carotene desaturases that are normally used by higher plants.[6] Lycopene is then cyclized to beta-carotene by the endogenous cyclase in Golden Rice
Eventually no country wanted the rice, because the most Asian countries are scared to lose all local species of the rice plants. If you ask me the had a good reason, if genetically manipulated plants crosses with other similar local rice plants, there will be hybridization, this can cause diseases or a plague. Examples of human interference in ecosystems often resulted in damage, the vulnerability of a ecosystem is also his strength to adapt and overcome destruction. To mutate and to recreate. If a ecosystem stays untouched it will flourish, by that strong and flexible within his own environment. Interference of another species from another environment can take over the balanced ecosystem and create a shift, the ecosystem restores and adapts the species. survival of the fittest, also it will increase the possible fact that a disease takes natures toll.
Myxomatosis (sometimes shortened to "myxo" or "myxy") is a disease that affects rabbits and is caused by the myxoma virus. It was first observed in Uruguay in laboratory rabbits in the late 19th century. It was introduced into Australia in 1950 in an attempt to control the rabbit population.
The cane toad in Australia is regarded as an exemplary case of a "feral species"—others being rabbits, foxes, cats, and Giant Mimosa. Australia's relative isolation prior to European colonisation and the industrial revolution—both of which dramatically increased traffic and importation of novel species—allowed development of a complex, interdepending system of ecology, but one which provided no natural predators for many of the species subsequently introduced. The recent, sudden inundation of foreign species has led to severe breakdowns in Australian ecology, after overwhelming proliferation of a number of introduced species for which the continent has no efficient natural predator or parasite, and which displace native species—in some cases these species are physically destructive to habitat as well. Cane toads have been very successful as an invasive species, having become established in more than 15 countries [3] within the past 150 years. The Australian Government placed cane toads in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as a "key threatening process"
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