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China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars
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| Dec 4, 2012
Posted on 12/24/2012 6:57:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: terycarl
except you don't recycle your own urine and feces into your window box... 8^)
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posted on
12/24/2012 8:26:06 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: BenLurkin
Recently this country has been growing crops in congress. One party grows fruits, the other vegetables.
To: BenLurkin
Bill Clinton is good with a hoe.
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posted on
12/24/2012 8:50:39 PM PST
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
To: Chode
except you don't recycle your own urine and feces into your window box... 8^)Might be hard to locate a big box home center place on Mars, never mind a lawn and garden department. Would be interesting if anyone ever figured out if terraforming, though. I guess, in theory, the road to terraforming involves being able to control the weather on Earth. Since we can't even predict the weather, let alone control it, I think terraforming is a bit of a pipe dream. If anyone figures out how to control the weather, the military applications alone would be mind-boggling.
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posted on
12/24/2012 9:11:51 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Chode
I would think the hard radiation sleeting through the garden would result is mostly dead plants....
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posted on
12/24/2012 9:41:24 PM PST
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: BenLurkin
and lest we forget...
the album, not the movie
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posted on
12/24/2012 11:03:16 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: BenLurkin
Well, it's good to see that humans are still being serious. Granted, they have an oppressive government and are culturally different than us, but at least the human race has a chance to remain beyond the next global disaster. Of course, I wish this human endeavor were led by a nation of free people.
The American cowboy gave way to the petulant adolescent. "It's the [Fill in the Blank] Studid!" We're becoming a nation of know-it-alls who literally know less than nothing since virtually everything we know is actually wrong. We will still be around for a few more years, progressively neener-neenering ourselves into obsolescence.
Merry Christmas.
To: BenLurkin
Yeah, so they'll grow the food for their astronauts on Mars.
They'll still be hungry again an hour later.
Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/25/2012 4:06:17 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: BenLurkin
When my kid was eight, I helped her with an original science project for school.
She attempted to grow cabbages in Lunar simulant soil which was supplied by a kind NASA scientist. After Apollo, vegetables were grown in ACTUAL Lunar soil returned to Earth. For some reason, which I don’t think was ever explained, the vegetables in real Lunar soil grew FASTER than the control vegetables grown in Lunar simulant soil created from Earth samples.
The original part was that we made asteroid simulant soil. We chose to create carbonaceous chondrite soil since that is the most common type of near Earth asteroid.
The cabbages grew just fine in Lunar simulant. However, the asteroid soil had too many hydrocarbons in it. It was like trying to grow vegetables in asphalt.
She got a Blue Ribbon.
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posted on
12/25/2012 5:34:26 AM PST
by
darth
To: left that other site
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:17:48 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: ASOC
unless shielded as well as the humans, prolly pretty hard on the humans also yielding the same result... yes?
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:33:36 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Zhang Fei
oh yes... the Chin's are on the pipe for sure
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:38:06 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Secret Agent Man
We've been doing aeroponics for years. Between
Biopsphere 2 and the
Living with the Land exhibit at Disney's EPCOT, the Chinese have a lot of research already done for them
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:34:44 AM PST
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: darth
After Apollo, vegetables were grown in ACTUAL Lunar soil returned to Earth. For some reason, which I dont think was ever explained, the vegetables in real Lunar soil grew FASTER than the control vegetables grown in Lunar simulant soil created from Earth samples. Lunar soil probably has jagged edgeswhich would scarify seeds, which encourages them to sprout"faster".
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posted on
12/25/2012 3:27:02 PM PST
by
Does so
(Dims don't think ... they PLOT!)
To: BenLurkin
Great, ....so the next Chinese transport will take bees, then they will mutate into Martian Killer Bees and swarm every solar eclipse. Even space will no longer be safe....
(Asparagus will still take 2 years to grow...)
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posted on
12/25/2012 3:40:27 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: darth
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:18:02 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
And you thought getting fruit cocktail from China was a novelty.
Coming soon to a Walmart near you - fresh veggies from Mars and Moon...
Not to worry, I am a meat eater and figure cows eat enough grass to cover my veggie needs.....
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:49:15 PM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
To: BenLurkin
Green Mars, part of a series of novels some years ago, terraforming over a two hundred year cycle.
The Chinese can do it. They can initiate a chain reaction that can given time start an atmosphere. As far as nutrients there is ways to get around that. Microbes can feed off of almost anything, just need the right ones.
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:59:25 PM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(A Civil Cold War in America is here, its already been declared.)
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