Team Everest

Itahari | Build a Space Biology Superhero

Cemeto Xelius: A space superhero

High-Level Project Summary

We have tried to create a space superhero called 'cemeto xelius' which is a multicellular organism. Here, we have taken the DNA of tardigrade and used it as a main assest of our project. We have also taken methanopyrus kandleri's enzymes as a Heat resistance property. Likewise, we have combined various features of eagle, monkey, cat and an owl.This superhero is created to solve the extreme situations of space like gravitational force, lack of water, extreme UV rays and other radiations, atmospheric pressure, and etc. It also contains analog and digital sensors which can be useful for research purposes. Furthermore, it can also raise a question about existence of aliens and similar species.

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/shabda11222/Spacehero

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/v860w5v2Hws

Detailed Project Description

This superhero can go up to the space and survive it for a longer period of time than any animal or human has. The purpose to create this superhero is to create something that can overcome the conditions of space and also which can be useful for research purposes. It is convenient as it doesn't require much oxygen or water. The DNA and enzymes put into this organism makes it capable of surviving in space without much resources. The organism tardigrade whose DNA is added in our superhero is actually an asset in space exploration as it can survive any kind of condition. European team of researchers sent a group of living tardigrades to orbit the earth on the outside of a FOTON-M3 rocket for 10 days. The defect in this organism is it's heat resistance property.

To overcome this, we have added enzymes of methanopyrus kandleri which has the highest heat resistance property. Because of its microscopic nature, we've created an organism with tardigrade's DNA adding features of different animals.

The main motto of creating this superhero is to explore space. This sensors in this organism can provide a real time data which can be useful for researchs.

Moreover it can also raise a question about existence of other similar beings in space. It also helps to deal with different health related problems like it's radiation resistance property can be used for treating cancer patients.

If looked further and developed, it can actually become something beyond our imaginations and it can help solve many mysteries of space.

We used html and css to code the program.

Space Agency Data

For this project we used various data from various sites. We used different sites for different informations.

The follows sites helped us for our research

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For history :-

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/laiki-60-anniversary-russia-space-dog-what-happens-to-animals-sent-into-orbit-a8036411.html

For reference to animal in space :-

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/39033/are-there-types-of-animals-that-cant-make-the-trip-to-space-physiologicallyFor the data of challenges of animal in space :-

https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?affiliate=nasa&sort_by=&query=challenges+of+animal+in+space&commit=Search

For working mechanism of Semeto Xelius :-

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-cats-have-such-weird-eyes

https://www.britannica.com/animal/tardigrade

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4682472/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/methanopyrus-kandleri

Hackathon Journey

Our space App experience was actually amazing. We got a learn a lot of things throughout this session. Our team decided to choose this challenge because it gives you an opportunity to be creative and portray out your imaginations and create a space superhero. We were clueless and overwhelmed at first but as we got support and guidance from experts and did our research, it was very educational and interesting. We had problems during formation of our website and researches but we received help and managed to create our space superhero. We would like to thank our experts who helped us throughout and we would also like to thank everyone who joined this challenge. We got to learn from everyone and it really was a wonderful experience.

References

We took references from many sites on Google.