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How do you know there are only extreme benefits? To your second question I need to ask something: after you moved past the coolness factor, what do you think w
by crististm 8y ago
How do you know there are only extreme benefits?
To your second question I need to ask something: after you moved past the coolness factor, what do you think would be the _drawbacks_?
- tomp 8y agoI'm not saying there would be only benefits, I'm just saying that the tradeoffs are different... Earth-food works, so GMO can either marginally improve it, make it marginally worse, or make it really worse (i.e. it's the tail risk I'm worried about, same as with climate change). Space food is currently impossible, so almost anything we do will be neutral or an improvement. Also, as I mentioned, the constraints are completely different - up-front costs are mostly irrelevant, mass and speed of growth are the problem - so foods that are net negative on Earth (e.g. because they have to be produced in a lab and are hugely expensive) might be viable in space.
- crististm 8y agoI'm amazed by your comment: "I'm not saying there would be only benefits [in space]... ...Space food is currently impossible,so almost anything we do will be neutral or an improvement" So in the first comment I read that there will be only benefits in space, and in this one that there will be, practically speaking - only improvements?
- tomp 8y agoMaybe I expressed myself poorly... I meant "using GMO can benefit/improve food production in space [much more than on Earth]".