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Green Plants for Mars Mission
An anonymous reader writes "NASA doesn't keep back that they are going to send a human expedition to Mars in a couple of decades. One of the obstacles for the longstanding 35-million-mile voyage is a food production. NASA researchers have focused on 20 plant species that NASA believes could be grown during a flight to Mars and after landing on the fourth planet from the Sun. By far not all of them are suitable for space expedition."
a good candidate for the mission. I guess travaling that far can be boring .
"potential problems based on the byproducts they gave off"
..does making people laugh makes a problem ?
Spam... Comes in a small can, and tastes great. As a good long-term food source, it's great--just ask me. The poor university student. :(
Why can't we just eat at the Starbucks that will be there by the time we get there.
...it worked in 2001
But if you don't eat your greens you won't get any pudding. And who would spend years in space without pudding?
...fifty years from now, we find that the only plants that would grow on Mars are ragweed and poison ivy.
ardustry
About the time I stopped smoking, pot had gotten a lot more powerful, and the kids were calling it "chronic" or "polio". Has it gotten powerful enough to call it "suspended animation"?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
> wow that is such a fluff piece, it says that the actual information will be released later on, it doesn't mention the species of plants looked at
They don't want to scare off tommorow's potential astronauts with a long list of vegetables.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
lander door opens and astronaut steps out....faint sounds of Bob Marley playing....
"that's one small ste...oh dude it's like so RED out here!! And the sky.. is like... totally pink man! Houston, I'm like, so tripping right now!"
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Hate me!
Besides, where would they put the 2 tonnes of Cheetos required for the trip?
...a 1 cent coffee, and a $6.99 paper cup :)
You're right! Brownies don't give off much smoke. They keep going out!
The list posted above cannot possibly be correct. Maybe they should get Martha Stewart on this one. She's good with recipes and used to living in confined spaces.
Stuff that matters.
and great insight as well.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
No cocoa beans? I'm not going...
Catnip? My cat probably will.
"By far not all of them are suitable for space expedition."
I have a vision of a potted tomato plant strapped to the centrifuge chair...
From what I recall (the Wikipedia article doesn't seem to mention this), The project was either a great failure or a great success, depending on how you look at it. It was a great success, because life thrived in it. The failure was in the fact that the system wasn't balanced very well, and the lifeforms that thrived were the likes of cockcroaches; not the humans that were intended to do scientific experiments there.
Biosphere 1 is sometimes considered a failure for much the same reasons.
Spider plant is a heavy breather.
Now I know who's been making those phone calls.
I didn't really know. 2ndly. When I afterwards, went to their website they only had locations in 33 countries. [Out of over hundred of countries, so NO in most countries people haven't seen a starbucks.]
And I simply made a guess based on what I've heard in slashdot, so what kind of shops they actually are. [They atleast give coffee based on their website, but do they really sell food too?]
There is perhaps a reason why there is no starbucks in Finland. We have VERY strong coffee brands, in Finland, and every hosehold has coffee machine, where people make their own coffee.
Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.