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Trees to be grown on Mars
ANNOVIA ^ | FR Post 12-29-04 | Luiz Cruz Kuri

Posted on 12/29/2004 7:42:52 AM PST by vannrox

Trees to be grown on Mars



A new project from Nasa and three Mexican universities will grow trees on Mars.

The Earth Formation in Mars Project will plant a special type of tree on the red planet that grows on the highest mountain of Mexico, Orizaba Peak.

Nacional Autonoma University of Mexico, Veracruzana University, Veracruz University and Nasa have been researching the trees for years.

Because of the high places they grow - with little oxygen and extreme cold - they are thought to be ideal for the project.

Researcher Luiz Cruz Kuri told Clarin newspaper: "Orizaba Peak has the highest line of trees in the world. We can take then to Mars."


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KEYWORDS: fruit; grow; mars; nasa; plant; science; seed; space; terraforming; trees; woodinuranus; woodonmars
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To: spokeshave

"Attack of the Martian Tree People"


21 posted on 12/29/2004 8:05:07 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (60 votes and the world changes.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

22 posted on 12/29/2004 8:09:45 AM PST by Scythian
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To: vannrox


Some Trees, couple hundred Moholes, Some nitrogen from Titan, couple aquifers here and there and Mars too could need some woman.


23 posted on 12/29/2004 8:17:37 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Kerfuffle
Are the environmentalists going to sit still for us introducing "non-indigenous species" into Mar's pristine ecosystem?

That's what I was thinking - don't put it past them.

After all, the trees might destroy those "old growth" rocks on Mars.

24 posted on 12/29/2004 8:21:04 AM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Jay777

No, Helen Thomas is too old and too fat to send to Mars. That pretty much stops the "horrible alien swamp things that attack us and suck our brains out" problem. . .


25 posted on 12/29/2004 8:27:17 AM PST by Salgak (don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
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To: Red Badger

Didn't Martian Customs ask the lander if it was carrying any fruits, plants or other non indiginous flora? How much booze did it sneak up there?


26 posted on 12/29/2004 8:29:22 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: sheik yerbouty

"Captain Kirk? You won't give me the Genesis Device?....Okee doke" - Rev. Jim miscast as Klingon


27 posted on 12/29/2004 8:31:44 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: Pookyhead
trees create oxegen,

True.

they don't burn it...

Actually, they do burn oxygen.

28 posted on 12/29/2004 8:34:26 AM PST by WildTurkey
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To: vannrox
This is total B.S.! NASA just a couple of weeks ago addressed the issue of contamination of other planets and moons by space crafts and this would be a huge contamination of Mars. Sounds like a story from the National Enquirer or Globe's great staff of reporters. (sarcasm off).
29 posted on 12/29/2004 8:34:27 AM PST by reagandemo (The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
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To: vannrox

Trees to be grown on Mars

WHY?

The 'article' is a joke, correct?

30 posted on 12/29/2004 8:36:38 AM PST by sevry
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To: vannrox
Because of the high places they grow - with little oxygen and extreme cold - they are thought to be ideal for the project.

Uh, huh. And how do they do without a single drop of water?

31 posted on 12/29/2004 8:41:28 AM PST by Physicist
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To: vannrox

Seems to me that bacteria would be the way to start. We could probably duplicate martian conditions in a lab and find something that works.


32 posted on 12/29/2004 8:42:59 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: glock rocks
Mezcal!

Marzcal?

33 posted on 12/29/2004 8:43:45 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: sevry
"WHY?"

Because one plank of wood is just not enough.

34 posted on 12/29/2004 8:43:57 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: vannrox

I predict a Wal-Mart opening within 2 years of planting the trees.


35 posted on 12/29/2004 8:44:11 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: sevry
Trees to be grown on Mars WHY?

Well, where are the little Martian birds gonna put their nests??? HMMMMM, SMART GUY????

36 posted on 12/29/2004 8:45:07 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: vannrox
Your link doesn't link to this article.

And what's "Annovia"?

37 posted on 12/29/2004 8:45:27 AM PST by inquest (Now is the time to remove the leftist influence from the GOP. "Unity" can wait.)
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To: vannrox
Trees to be grown on Mars

Isn't this like contaminating a pristine environment or something? I mean, we wouldn't like it if they started planting stuff here...

That's how David Gerrold's War Against The Chtorr got started, first an innocuous plant got started, then all of a sudden Earth was innundated with shambler trees and other carniverous plant life, not to mention the man-eating (and anything-else-living-eating) cephalopods that showed up later...

38 posted on 12/29/2004 8:48:19 AM PST by mhking
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To: inquest

And what's "Annovia"

I believe it is a planet near the Klingon Empire.


39 posted on 12/29/2004 8:51:29 AM PST by PFC
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To: massgopguy

In that thin Martian Atmosphere, a little booze goes a long way!.......


40 posted on 12/29/2004 8:51:54 AM PST by Red Badger
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