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NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon
An anonymous reader writes in with news about a NASA project that aims to grow plants on the moon in specially made containers. "In 2015, NASA will attempt to make history by growing plants on the Moon. If they are successful, it will be the first time humans have ever brought life to another planetary body. The Lunar Plant Growth Habitat team, a group of NASA scientists, contractors, students and volunteers, is finally bringing to life an idea that has been discussed and debated for decades. They will try to grow arabidopsis, basil, sunflowers, and turnips in coffee-can-sized aluminum cylinders that will serve as plant habitats. But these are no ordinary containers – they’re packed to the brim with cameras, sensors, and electronics that will allow the team to receive image broadcasts of the plants as they grow. These habitats will have to be able to successfully regulate their own temperature, water intake, and power supply in order to brave the harsh lunar climate."
...watching grass grow.
...it will be the first time humans have ever brought life to another planetary body.
So NASA is finally admitting that it never sent life [Astronauts] to another planetary body. Am guessing they may have sent dead ones in order to be able truthfully say yes we sent astronauts to the moon.
American baristas' cans average around 34DD.
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
I agree.
And as appropriate organisms, my vote goes for: Lawyers, politicians and lobbyists, in that order.
I suggest that we put lobbyists before politicians on that list, otherwise we will end up with a brief period where we have lobbyists with no natural target, that could be ugly.
Egads, man, just think what they'll do to poor Venus! It won't be terraforming, it would be terracide!
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
How big is an inch ?
0.1mm for genital measurement, 25.4mm for everything else.
They should plant weed and dandelions. It will grow anywhere. Pretty soon the whole moon will be green.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!