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+ | <td>I would appreciate your help. The education and research group I work with released our <br /> | ||
+ | first iPad app, the free BLiSS Sim, yesterday and I'd like as many people as possible to <br /> | ||
+ | [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bliss-sim/id525464463?ls=1&mt=8 download] it and review it in the next few days. Apparently, early reviews and downloads <br /> | ||
+ | for a new app causes Apple to position it in a better location, making it easier to stumble <br /> | ||
+ | upon. BLiSS Sim is a <u>B</u>ioregenerative <u>Li</u>fe <u>S</u>upport <u>S</u>ystem simulation, a game-like activity <br /> | ||
+ | for exploring how crops can produced oxygen, water and food for a lunar base. It is based <br /> | ||
+ | on experiments that NASA conducted from the 70s through the 90s when there were still <br /> | ||
+ | dreams to return to the Moon. BLiSS Sim is a short game that places the player in change <br /> | ||
+ | of the plant growth chambers at a lunar base. A series of challenges with different levels <br /> | ||
+ | requires you to discover the oxygen, water, and food outputs of four crops, lettuce, potatoes, <br /> | ||
+ | soy beans and wheat, and also the optimum growth periods and illumination requirements for <br /> | ||
+ | each. After you figure out the needed inputs and resulting outputs you have to judiciously <br /> | ||
+ | select the right mixture of crops to support a crew of four. Of course, with only those four <br /> | ||
+ | ingredients the diet may encourage walking outside the airlock without a helmet, but you will <br /> | ||
+ | gain a feeling for the complexity for actually supporting a crew for long duration missions, <br /> | ||
+ | whether at a base in Tycho or on a two year mission to Mars. I hope you will give BLiSS Sim <br /> | ||
+ | a test drive. <br /> | ||
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+ | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
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+ | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
+ | BLiSS Sim at the [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bliss-sim/id525464463?ls=1&mt=8 iTunes Store]<br /> | ||
+ | BLiSS Sim [http://bliss-wiki.wikispaces.com/home wiki]<br /> | ||
+ | BLiSS Sim [http://www.nasatalk.com/blog/article/Blogs/17-Laurie%20Ruberg/1813-betting-my-life-on-plants-bliss-a-bioregenerative-life-support-system.html blog]<br /> | ||
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Revision as of 22:02, 1 January 2015
Moon Bliss
I would appreciate your help. The education and research group I work with released our first iPad app, the free BLiSS Sim, yesterday and I'd like as many people as possible to |
Related Links
BLiSS Sim at the iTunes Store
BLiSS Sim wiki
BLiSS Sim blog
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