Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
Evidently you didn't watch the video. They plainly stated that the organ materials they're printing would be too fragile to generate on Earth, and the best way to do the work is in a microgravity environment.
Evidently I did, which is why I quoted the decade timeline.
Yes, the "material they're printing" would be too fragile. No reason they could not (and currently are) print with a material that would not collapse on Earth, or use a different method on Earth that supports the fragile structure without relying on micro-gravity.
But no, they applied and were granted a ton of cash to run their little space man experiments to help justify the ton of cash wasted on the ISS already.