Episode 211 drops this week. Rod Pyle and Tariq sit down with Jacob Scoccimerra from Monolith Space.
Thinking about Mars? You picture freeze-dried peas. Maybe rehydrated chicken strips. Not seafood. You’re missing the point.
Oysters make sense. They filter water. They provide protein. Dense, sustainable fuel for a long haul. Scoccimerra, ex-Nanoracks, got students at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology involved. Their goal? Build a closed-circuit system. Automated. Keeping bivalves alive in a space analog. It works. Or it aims to. The conversation might actually make you crave a shucked oyster.
“When one ponders the diet of… oysters don’t often come to mind.”
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This Week’s Noise
Paperwork landed for SpaceX. Elon Musk is finally putting numbers on the table. Investors want to see inside the rocket company’s brain.
JPL feels the heat too. Control might shift hands for the first time in almost a century. Big change.
And then there’s the money man. A cryptocurrency billionaire is booking a ticket. Not for orbit. For Mars. On a private Starship. We know he’s going. We just don’t know when.
Meanwhile, someone rebuilt Star Wars. With cardboard. It looks insane.
The Project
Harrisburg University is pushing hard on this. “Shell We Go to Space?” asks one headline. They are prototyping an aquaculture system specifically for microgravity. It’s not just theory anymore.
Blast Off
Estes makes a scale model. Falcon 9. Actually launchable. It costs $149.90. Yes. That’s the price tag. Detailed enough to look real. Light it up and watch it go.
Use the code IN-COLLECTSPACE. Ten percent off. Courtesy of our friends at collectSPACE.com.
Why We Do This
Every Friday. Same time. We dig into the new space age. What’s the moon race actually doing? Will SpaceX put humans on Red Planet dust soon enough?
The questions linger. The answers rarely do.
