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'''Life-Support-Systems''' | |||
'''Abstract''' | |||
I define systems that serve the purpose of sustaining live of the participating organisms as life-support-systems. This definition distinguishes life-support-systems from the term habitat, which is the natural environment of an organism, in which it can find food, shelter and reproduce. Life-support-systems are artifical and meant to stabilize the parameters of life of the participating organisms. This can include parameters from a natural enviromnent, maybe even mimicking it, but it is not the directive of a life-support-system. | |||
When an organisms wants to leave its natural habitat and colonize or travel to another habitat in which it cannot sustain its life-parameters, it needs a life-support-system. In fiction there are interesting examples of this bare necessity: from Dracula, who has to sleep in soil of his homeland, that he ships in coffins to London so he can sustain his life there, to the fremen-suits of the natives of Arakis, the desert planet in Frank Herbert‘s Dune, who use sophisticated wearables to survive in conditions of extreme heat and draught. | |||
My intention is to design a life-support-system that will sustain the life of a fungus for as long as possible. | |||
Based on the theory that a fungus will grow indefinetly, as long as it is provided with enough food and has no physical boundaries¹, I grow Pleurotus Ostreatus and Pleurotus Djamor in liquid culture. This theory opposes the opinion that fungi are subject to a process called senescence or biological ageing that leads to loss in vigor and the eventual death of a individuum². | |||
<div style="color:#72bf44;">'''Directive 1:'''</div> | |||
Let the fungi grow in a shape that makes it easier for hominina to relate to it. The shape should be appealing and spark empathy. | |||
<div style="color:#ce181e;">'''Directive 2:'''</div> | |||
Investigate and search for partners to the fungi, that can supply the needed resources to sustain life. | |||
<div style="color:#ce181e;">'''Directive 3: '''</div> | |||
Design a system that sustains the live of the fungi and their partner for as long as possible. | |||
<div style="color:#ed1c24;">Directive 4:</div> | |||
Prove that there is no such thing as senescence for fungi and that it can be prevented in a laboratory set-up. | |||
'''Methodology''' | |||
Two fungi in the same genus Pleurotus ostreatus and djamor are cultivated in liquid culture. The formation of clusters is controlled by media formulation and by pressure of the aeriation-system. | |||
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'''¹''' see page 206 ''Mycelium is a hologram''<nowiki>; </nowiki>'''Radical Mycology'''<nowiki>; Peter McCoy </nowiki>Chthaeus Press ISBN 978-0-9863996-0-2 | |||
'''² '''see page Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Paul Stamets | |||