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Can we / will be ever be able to grow bioengineered coral at an accelerated rate with a desired growth structure/direction in space?
by Falimonda 2y ago
Can we / will be ever be able to grow bioengineered coral at an accelerated rate with a desired growth structure/direction in space?
- daveguy 2y agoAccelerated rate with equivalent integrity probably requires some engineering tricks nature hasn't "figured out" yet. Given nature has had a few billion years of massively parallel processing of the original genetic algorithm, it's unlikely. Especially considering ASI is a pipe dream. Also, sea creatures use buoyancy to their advantage. Maybe we will find other structure development systems from combining existing pieces of biologic systems. But that's also unlikely, because biologic systems are so incredibly entangled (to use a software concurrency/complexity term). That said, it is an awesome research direction, just for the novel construction techniques potential.