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On the agriculture topic NASA has been working in this area for a while:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/biofarming.html

As I understand it growing crops in a small, sealed environment requires much more precise understanding of how plants behave than you do for traditional Earth-bound farming.



Ah, interesting. I know NASA were doing some research in aeroponics [1] but I haven't seen anything recent on it. Lot of commercial systems I see don't have a lot of research behind but they are still getting better yields I think. I also saw an old but interesting system from MIT [2]. It would be very useful to mine data from these to train ML systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics [2] http://openag.media.mit.edu/




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