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>There will be additional mirrors inside the satellite that will enable sunlight to reach the capsule, but not by direct radiation, which would harm the algae.

>The magazine interviewed Roni Oron, who recently won a “Satellite Is Born” award from the Israel Space Agency in a competition for teenagers ages 12-15. The contest required the teens to build a model for a satellite that could change the face of today’s research and humanity.

It's fucking nothing.

parabolic mirrors dude

she did nothing, she PROPOSED it by building a model

it's right there dude, put an arduino in it and algae and you're good to go

>what is esa's melissa project?

>put an arduino in it and algae and you're good to go
No.
I don't think you understand how any of this works.

>he fell for obvious bait

When you reflect light using a mirror it should be trivially obvious that the radiation will travel with it.

Unless this parabolic mirror has a film that filters harmful radiation, nothing useful happens.

And yeah, that other guy is right. The parabolic mirror will probably cook the algae.

IF WE PUT PLANTS IN SPACE WITH US, THEY'LL TAKE AWAY THE CARBON DIOXIDE AND GIVE US OXYGEN

congrats, I'm pretty sure everyone on this board has thought of this at some point from the ages 9 to 14.
There are a lot of really fucking smart people who've been working towards doing just that for decades, and it's a lot harder than it sounds.
BTFO little israeli girl. you're just another future Veeky Forums goer.

>congrats, I'm pretty sure everyone on this board has thought of this at some point from the ages 9 to 14.
Just because the overarching idea is obvious doesn't mean that the details aren't interesting. We currently know very little about how different elements of a space environment affect plant life and growth. It's definitely a legitimate area of study.

>not reading the next line
Yeah, it is incredibly interesting, and important.
I'm criticizing jewishbusinessnews, not the area of study.

Okay, fair enough. I wasn't trying to contradict you.

I suspect jewishbusinessnews might just be an Israeli equivalent to things like The Daily Mail - celebrity shit and popular rubbish that no-one takes seriously: Look at the other articles on the site.

I guess I'm just a little disappointed. A program that gave teenagers an opportunity to play with real challenges in satellite design - even if they don't go in-depth- would be a really great thing. Space shit is inherently interesting to people, and this would encourage learning in a whole bunch of subjects. But instead it sounds all they've done is get kids to tape bits of cardboard together.

>makes a very limited amount of oxygen
>for a very limited amount of time
>anly when there's is plenty of light
Yeah, this totally get's us a breathing atmosphere on Mars

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>jewishbusinessnews

Kek

>tfw I did this exact same thing 30+ years ago for a 8th grade science fair project

Mine was green pond algae in a mason jar with 1 reflector made from aluminum foil glued to cardboard. I found that it actually needed a cooling system because just one reflector was enough to make the water extremely warm to the touch and kill everything inside it. I'd imagine that in space you'd need some sort of good cooling system to deal with all the waste heat.

>i got a B minus for the project because another kid picked up the jar and broke it by accident before the teacher listened to my presentation

Thus, the space program was setback by over 30 years.

kek

when i simply heat something with my magnifying glasses on clear weather, it burn. I'm sorry, but her statellite will boil -or explode

There si a bit more to this than is shown in the picture. Article:
>There will be additional mirrors inside the satellite that will enable sunlight to reach the capsule, but not by direct radiation, which would harm the algae.

Problem now is a lot of heat entering the algae strip and little area to radiate out the excess heat. One might instead have covered the same area as the mirrors with just a pressurized flat sheet with a thin algae film.

You need to filter away the UV and IR. If you use chlorophyll only you might want to filter away the green light too, unless you sandwich this with another sheet with rhodopsin based photosynthetic algae. Even so you risk a lot of buildup of excess heat.

>which will be made of a membrane through which air can pass but water cannot

how's this going to work? air molecules are larger than water molecules

Sure. This is well known from nature. The membrane in plain eggs allow air in but prevents the egg from drying out.

>but prevents the egg from drying out.

No, they do dry out. That is why you must keep the humidity very high when you are incubating them.