Posted on 04/17/2009 10:31:08 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The idea of growing common flowers and vegetables on the moon seems like something out of a SF novel. But it’s probably going to happen sooner than you think. The Telegraph reports that cabbage and Brussels sprouts could be growing in a mini-greenhouse on the moon in 2012. The idea is to find out if and how a moon colony could produce its own food. Why Brussels sprouts, which would rarely top a veggie popularity poll? “Because,” says the article,” brassica [the family of which cabbages, sprouts, broccoli, and kale are members] goes from seed to flower in just 14 days, it can complete its life cycle in a single lunar night.” So future residents of Mars — unlike a former US president — better be fans of broccoli. But even space colonizers can’t live by cabbage alone. They will need beauty. Paragon Space Development Corp., the Arizona company behind this (in partnership with Odyssey Moon Ltd.), is also planning to experiment with flowers and possible aquatic plants on the moon by 2014, reports Space.com. Wouldn’t it be neat if eventually moonflowers could grow on the moon?
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Harvest the methane...
I’d grow Moon Pies.
So my guess would be..."Brussel sprouts and gravy 2 bits!"
And since the pull of the Moon’s gravity is less than Earth’s, plants will be proportionally stronger and able to grow bigger. Imagine a brussel sprout the size of a cabbage!
Aquaculture on the Moon is a viable food source. Imagine cavier the size of chicken eggs!
Even scarier: imagine the sturgeon it came out of!
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