Great Idea, Dirk. I just love it! “Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” (Seth Godin) Greetings, Leonardo.

Just had me some vague idea, seeing this topic again. Considering floating structures and supply chains I'd supposed some (potentially solar/tidal powered) little autonomous tugs can both move the pods to deployment zone, and with climate controlled compartments potentially ferry goods like food. A similar initative could possibly float over a few pods configured up for recycling and processing. A lot of that can possibly be directly recycled as manufacturing fodder, producing more parts for pods, hulls for tugs etc and feeding things like 3D printers on the floating habitation lessening the impact of the lengthened supply chain from floating in international waters. This potentially wouldn't take any money, as much as it'd save money. Getting things into the middle of nowhere is a chore at best. An automated solution picking up scrap from a pile of crap you can see from space and feeding it into localised facilities(powered by solar, wind, tidal, current) and then moving either granules or extruded filiment could result in a lot more that we can actually use and the operational costs should be minimal - it shouldn't take long to "pay for itself" and then shortly after provide for return.

It is important to aware people not to throw waste product into the ocean. fishes and other sea animals are hugely affected by this. The next thing is, government should start a campaign to clean the ocean. It is going take lots of money but isn't it our duty to take care of our planet?

Plastics in the sea, in terms of random refuse, is certianly a problem - it's been visible from space for decades. On a more positive note, with regards refuse and to floating structures, there is one man who was homeless, and where he lived the weather was okay to sleep under the stars on the beach for a while, and he became dismayed at all the empty plastic bottles that regularly appeared - so be began to collect them. Eventually he had enough to use as ballast and he built himself his own personal floating island mostly out of scrap he found of on the beach. You should look it up, it's not as shabby as you'd think - it's quite substantial, he even has trees growing on it. Now, I'd not suggest we follow suit. It was just something that struck me as a novel use. More realistically, IMHO would be to recycle the plastics and use that to make things. There's already a few posts in other places with regards to the likes of taking common waste otherwise destined for recycling and using as a construction material through things like 3D printing. If harvested, most can be re-used. There's also posts about floating structures. Someone on reddit had claimed to be well versed in nautical engineering, building ships hulls for some time and had proposed "floating structures" - I personally think in a modular fashion this could be reasonably effective. As a launch platform, I question if it would be stable enough. The only logical place to float such structures would be right out in open and international waters. It could be rendered stable enough for habitation, especially if the center of gravity is below the surface, but launching is a little fickle. I'm to understand once it's fueled up it doesn't like lateral sway. There some citation on this "reverse magnetism" or was that some allusion to some future antigravity technogy? In terms of "biodegradable materials" - most plastic waste is that involved with packaging. Ages ago Eben Bayer had a TED talk: Are mushrooms the new packaging? Specifically targetting polystyrene foams he'd found a way to effectively grow mushrooms on natural organic waste in a mould that resulted in a suitable replacement for polystyrene in most applications with similar properties apart from it's non-toxic and biodegradable. You really don't get much cheaper than mold, a little leaf mulch and a few twigs - it doens't need overly obscure conditions to thrive and has no particularly rare ingredients. Throwing it away when you're done with it doesn't cause a problem.

I've actually thought about a hologram projected room similar to a planetarium but much smaller and designed to create a simulated environment for relieving stress. It would be a type of stress-relief and meditation space where you could click a button and feel like your at the beach or on a hill overlooking a sunset with many other projected views of nature.

Kali Linux. I would love to learn how to use Kali effectively. Would you have some easy to follow tutorials? -Agnostic72

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Hi -Jens-. The initial question was "Is earth-lava a good starter for a biosphere in space?". So I start to think in that way, that was interesting to imagine such situation. But from practical point of view directly use lava is not a good idea, that's obviously.

Hi Artem I understand that lava makes good soil, but why would we take lava to space instead of the soil itself? That would be a lot more convenient, right? Greeting Jens

Hi -Jens-. Lava can be a good soil. But if think a little bit about a problem, you can comprehend that there exist another good method of growing food. It is hydroponics - it's cheaper and better than uses of lava.