✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

futurehistories.berggruen.org/empire-of-the-dandelion

futurehistories.berggruen.org · 5,456 words · saved by 1 readers

Isis Publication of the History of Science Society Special Issue, “200th Anniversary of the Apollo Lunar Landing” July 20th, Gregorian Calendar Year 2169 Mars Year 114/Ls 332.21 By the time the onboard emergency systems detected the pathogen, the thick rows of plant life cultivated by Project Dandelion had already begun to die. The devastation tore through the grow room so quickly that the team of botanists and bioengineers could only watch, helplessly, as the stink of death overwhelmed the space station’s ethanol processing systems, choking out the air necessary to sustain delicate human lungs. Surviving crew members later reported how their response times to the crisis were slowed by the debilitating emotional anguish of the disaster. While the team had been cultivating plants for practical purposes, they developed deep parasocial attachments to the organisms they coaxed into survival in the hostile environments of space. Crew members described how, on the morning of September 1st, 2

Future Histories --> Future Histories Future Histories × Empire of the Dandelion Lois Rosson & Claire Isabel Webb Isis Publication of the History of Science Society Special Issue, “200 th Anniversary of the Apollo Lunar Landing” July 20 th , Gregorian Calendar Year 2169 Mars Year 114/Ls 332.2 1 I. Excavating the Extraterrestrial By the time the onboard emergency systems detected the pathogen, the thick rows of plant life cultivated by Project Dandelion had already begun to die. The devastation tore through the grow room so quickly that the team of botanists and bioengineers could only watch, h

Explore this link on the map →

related reading