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  • Damir Sagolj / Reuters

    China starts 200-day simulation of living on another planet

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    07.09.2017

    The US definitely doesn't have a monopoly on long-term simulations of living on another planet. Four university students in Beijing have begun a 200-day isolation experiment, Lunar Palace 365 (why not Lunar Palace 200?), where they'll live solely on the resources they would have on the Moon or Mars. That means generating life-giving oxygen from plants, recycling urine to produce drinking water and otherwise making the most of limited supplies.