> This is a similar reaction to photosynthesis in plants, which produces glucose instead of rocket fuel.
This is silly, but also begs the sillier question why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel
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This is silly, but also begs the sillier question why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel
Cyanobacteria that can exist in the vacuum of space AND produce oxygen... just not fast enough to be useful, but one day, a big hairy space ship will rule the universe!
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1acqxml/lichen_survi...