# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (March 5, 2010)

* A discussion about veganism for space travel concluded that plant-based diets are more efficient for space missions because animals require more space, are less efficient at energy conversion, and are harder to maintain in space environments, with mushrooms potentially serving similar ecological/nutritional roles as chickens.

* Kanzure received an Emotiv EPOC brain-computer interface device and began developing a Linux driver for it, discovering that the device functions as a USB HID device and appears to operate as a web server on port 1726.

* There was a technical discussion about wheat gluten (seitan) potentially causing digestive issues, with mentions of pseudo-opiate peptides in gluten and milk that may create addiction effects.

* Participants speculated about future technologies that might allow humans to "self-tune" their digestive systems to process a wider range of nutrients, potentially requiring both new genes and regulatory logic.

* The European Space Agency's MELISSA project was referenced as related work on closed ecological systems for space habitation (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Melissa/SEMU54V681F_0.html).

* A 2007 Wired article was shared about Peter Thiel's approach to investing in Singularity-related technologies (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/09/peter-thiel-exp/).