Hilariously obvious that someone's pet project got tacked on there at the end. Kilometer wide structures please - or alternatively can you make us a tube of bio glue to fix punctures?
This is a theme in "The Web Between the Worlds" [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Web_Between_the_Worlds" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Web_Between_the_Worlds</a>
This reminds me of Larry Niven's Integral Trees. Very cool!<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees</a>
From last week: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185769">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185769</a>
We kind of have microgravity on Earth under water, which provides apparent reduced weight due to buoyancy. Coral reefs and all that.<p>Underground root/rhizome structures are also bio structures existing in a kind of microgravity since they are firmly supported by the surrounding soil they are packed into.
Wonder if anyone is looking into splicing those spider silk genes into a fungus. Maybe the mycelium could gain enough tensile strength to hold pressure? Maybe exude the proteins and form strong tubes around itself? Fungal structures are already surprisingly light for how strong they are.