What Does a Spaceship Need? - Food and Plasma Treatment Let's think about what a spaceship needs. What do the people on the spaceship need? Private space, social space, recreational space, food, vegetables, meat, water, private sanitary bathroom, air quality, work. The same things people need on Earth. I was recently watching "The Plasma Channel" on YouTube. There is an experimentalist who, for the video I watched, conducted an experiment where plants were only grown up to green shoots, just about at the seedling phase. He had a control group, a 30-second group, a 60-second group, and a 120-second group. Now, the control group had no treatment, and each of the groups after that underwent something he called cold plasma treatment for the respective time: 30 seconds, 60 seconds, and 120 seconds. The treatment was applied to the seeds of the plants, which were planted in terrariums similar to hydroponics buckets. Then, the experimentalist measured how quickly each seed sprouted for each group and how tall they grew over a 100-hour period, or about four days. The results were very interesting. The control group grew to about one inch in height after sprouting at the 60th hour. All ten plants sprouted and grew. In the 30-second group, the plants sprouted somewhere around the 56th hour and grew slightly taller. The same story goes for the 60-second group; these groups mentioned so far—all ten seeds sprouted and grew. So, the experiment showed that a bit of this so-called plasma treatment did help the plants germinate and grow a bit faster. Now, the 120-second group I found particularly interesting. Remember, these are just generic seeds—I think they might have been radish plant seeds—and they had no prior adjustment to the plasma treatment in prior generations. So, this set of ten seeds, the 120-second group, only germinated and sprouted any kind of leaf. However, it was quite interesting because three plants that began growing grew twice as tall as even the 60-second group during the same period of time—100 hours. So what's there to think about with this experiment? Well, it's pretty great that giving the seedlings a bit of a shock with the plasma treatment led them to germinate more quickly and grow a bit taller than the control group. The super growth experienced in the 120-second group demonstrated some real acceleration. If that result from one 20-second crew could be bred into plants so more seeds would survive, and if that growth continues and does create fruitful plants, then in any given timeframe, a whole lot more plant mass could be grown in the same plot of land or hydroponics bucket because of the shorter time it takes to go from seedling to plant mass. So back to the spaceship thing. Being able to grow more food—or for animals depending on which types of plants we can get to survive the plasma treatments—is very valuable because space is limited real estate on a spaceship. As for here on Earth, the exploration and development of plasma treatment and other indoor-outdoor botany-related technology is possible. Maybe actual purposes on Earth for higher-output gardens may provide an avenue for jobs and investment capital as well. First off, it's always good to have a local source of foodstuffs. If a city or a town wants a "Garden Building," and such buildings do already exist in some places, more technologically sophisticated types of installations may be able to produce a lot more food with the plasma treatment combined with other processes and technologies. Sleepy small towns in America pursuing a Garden Building project may be able to attract well-paying jobs and investment with such a project and revitalize their neighborhoods and economies. So that's it for this episode of "What Does a Spaceship Need?" We talked about one of the basic things that a spaceship needs. We discussed an impressive result from an experimentalist who treated plant seeds with something called Cold Plasma, which seems to cause the seed to germinate and grow faster compared to a control group. We also talked about something nicknamed garden buildings that may provide a venue for developing technology talent and investment avenues for exploring foodstuff technology potentially useful on Earth and in space. -Terren R. Faloh P.S. "Using Plasma To Grow Plants Faster" by The Plasma Channel, April 2025, at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abyh5F186yM&t=589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abyh5F186yM&t=589s)