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"If we're going to be consistent and advocate freedom of speech we have to advocate freedom of encrypted speech too. The genie is out of the bottle, cryptologically."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Spaceship Garden | ||
| A fully-enclosed garden on a spaceship producing edible foodstuffs. |
This is an early reference to this idea.
| We visited the many laboratories where the master of the Maritia spent his days. We saw the gardens, flooded with artificial sunlight, planted with everything imaginable, that supplied the necessary food. |
| Technovelgy from The Heritage of the Earth,
by Harley S. Aldinger. Published by Amazing Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Compare to Martian sawgrass from QRM - Interplanetary (1942) by George O. Smith, the asteroid garden from Asteroid of Fear (1951) by Raymond Z. Gallun, bubble world from At the Bottom of a Hole (1966) by Larry Niven, the lunar greenhouse tunnel from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein and lifezones from Tides of Light (1989) by Gregory Benford.
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- Russian Space Garden
- Autonomous Russian Greenhouse For ISS Wheat
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| Crystalline Structures In Space, You Say? |
| Amazing Photonic Crystal Light Sail |
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