I can tell no one here has any real awareness of the real science literature written on the subject. We are building, testing, and designing things like this al

I can tell no one here has any real awareness of the real science literature written on the subject. We are building, testing, and designing things like this all the time. Just in smaller increments. Just last year I met a young scientist who was working on a research base in Antarctica doing various biology studies on plants/animals living in low-light sealed environments... I was headed to the North Pole and she the South. I know a one-to-one experiment has a grandiose appeal, but NASA and all sorts of other institutions work on this problem in minor steps every day. The step just aren't, on their own, media worthy or very sci-fi-ish. Heck. Antarctic bases and the ISS, and many other science ventures are essentially a testing ground for some of these things on their own.