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And preferably among them, some drought-tolerant crops.
Now, making drought-tolerant crops is not the easiest thing in the world.
I'm sure some of you are thinking, "By biotic application, does she mean she's going to make genetically modified crops?"
All of the crops that we eat today, wheat, rice and maize, are highly genetically modified from their ancestors, but we don't consider them GM because they're being produced by conventional breeding.
If you mean, am I going to put resurrection plant genes into crops, your answer is yes.
All modern crops, therefore, have these genes in their roots and leaves, they just never switch them on.
So what we're trying to do right now is to understand the environmental and cellular signals that switch on these genes in resurrection plants, to mimic the process in crops.
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land.
If we can understand how they, and other creatures, stabilize their sensitive biological molecules, perhaps we could apply this knowledge to help us stabilize vaccines, or to develop stress-tolerant crops that can cope with Earth's changing climate.
But unfortunately, we couldn't get staple crops like grains and rice to grow this way.
Well, we'll use hydroponics to grow food, but we're not going to be able to grow more than 15 to 20 percent of our food there, at least not until water is running on the surface of Mars and we actually have the probability and the capability of planting crops.
We get more protection from radiation, more atmosphere makes us warmer, makes the planet warmer, so we get running water and that makes crops possible.
What if you could bring with you just a few packets of seeds, and grow crops in a matter of hours?
And what if those crops would then make more seeds, enabling you to feed the entire crew with just those few packets of seeds for the duration of the trip?
We have cleared 19.4 million square miles for crops and livestock.
That means we can make crops much faster than we're making them today.
Furthermore, since oil is used to manufacture multiple other goods, industrial products and consumer products, you can imagine being able to make detergents, soaps, lotions, etc., using these types of crops.
Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals.
They grow crops.
They domesticate crops.
People worry that there won't be enough food, but we know, if we just ate less meat and fed less of the crops to animals, there is enough food for everybody as long as we think of ourselves as one group of people.
They do all sorts of great things like moving around on the floor; they go into our gardens and they eat our crops; they climb trees; they go in water, they come out of water; they trap insects and digest them.
Such is the pressure of population around the world that agriculture and farming is required to produce more and more crops.
One of the negative impacts is if you put lots of fertilizer on the land, not all of it goes into the crops.
After all, we've engineered transgenic crops to be maximized for profit, crops that stand up to transport, crops that have a long shelf life, crops that taste sugary sweet but resist pests, sometimes at the expense of nutritional value.
Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture.
Crops and livestock are being brought to market.
As a species, we dig and scrape the Earth for resources, we produce energy, we raise animals and cultivate crops for food, we build cities, we move around, we create waste.
Each of these systems that I showed you brings us closer to having the mathematical and the conceptual tools to create our own versions of collective power, and this can enable many different kinds of future applications, whether you think about robots that build flood barriers or you think about robotic bee colonies that could pollinate crops or underwater schools of robots that monitor coral reefs, or if we reach for the stars and we thinking about programming constellations of satellites.
This tendency to look down on our own products and to see crops like fonio as simply "country peoples' food," therefore substandard, explains why even though we don't produce wheat in Senegal traditionally, it is far easier to find baguettes or croissants in the streets of Dakar than it is to find any fonio products.
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