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The Plow that Broke the Plains
Colloidal crystal. A computer simulation: “The connectivity of the crystals in the colloidal crystals above. Connections in white indicate that particle has six equally spaced neighbours and therefore forms part of a crystalline domain.”
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“ San Jorge, a settlement town of the spanish inner colonisation. Notice the almost perfect isometric perspective produced by the aerial image. Sim City 1960
Source of the image: José María Alagón Laste (2013), El Pueblo de...
La meseta, el “nodo” plano y natural-aislado, con el que la colonización s.XVI arrasó América, llega ahora a Marte. sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/nasa-h…
An 8-bit like vision of an earth-sized planet in TRAPPIST-1, the alien solar system with planets in the habitable zone.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/heres-our-first-view-of-trappist-1-the-alien-solar-system-with-earth-sized-planets

Timelapse video of a potato plant sprouting in Mars-like conditions. Research on food security and climate change. An article about it here: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-indicators-potatoes-mars.html

Solar farms in water dams. Imgs. from the websites of Kyocera and Hydrelio

Floating islands, “islas biorremediantes”, humedales artificiales. Imgs. from the websites of companies offering this type of water restoration devices, Paimed, Projar, Hydrolisis

Japanese technology giant Toshiba has unveiled a huge factory farm where it is growing various types of lettuce leaves without sunlight or soil for sale in its new healthcare business.

Located in disused 21,000-square foot electronics factory in Yokosuka, Toshiba claims to have created a perfect ‘germ free’ environment where it will grow three million bags of lettuce a year.

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