Posted on 10/25/2005 7:20:10 PM PDT by KevinDavis
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- North Carolina State University researchers are reportedly looking deep under water for clues on how to redesign plants for life deep in outer space.
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Some of the stresses inherent with travel and life in space -- extreme temperatures, drought, radiation and gravity -- are not easily remedied with traditional plant defenses, scientists said.
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Scientists are amazing! These guys must be pretty Intelligent to Design such wonders! I mean, plants like this aren't going to just randomly pop up in the laboratory -- someone's got to make the effort to Create them!
LMAO, if that isn't a case for intelligent design, I don't know what is.
OK how'd you get that pic of me at work?
Lookin for underwater plants for outerspace. Damned hippies have taken over NASA. Now they want to grow seaweed for sushi in outerspace.
LOL
hey.. how the heck can we put a hunting preserve on the moon if we don't let the hippies up some plants there first?
Yous gotta point. Whats the bag limit on lunar hippies going to be ?
hippies are off limits for hunting. they are to be used as feeding stock for the larger predators.
Good because I thought they'd be rather poor meat, have worthless hide, and look absolutely hideous mounted over the fireplace.
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