Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: In the hit movie, "The Martian", NASA astronaut Mark Watney survives by planting potatoes in one of the modules of the Mars base who is stranded at. The plot device received a great deal of praise from space agriculture experts, according to a recent story in Popular Mechanics. Of course, future space farmers would be advised to grow a variety of crops in order to diversify their diet, not an option for Watney. In any case, according to a story in ZME Science, NASA is partnering with Peru's International Potato Center (CIP) to do what Watney did and grow potatoes on Mars.

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[PopeRatzo]

Wake me up when they can grow bacon on Mars.

Re:Why potatoes?

[PolygamousRanchKid]

But you'd have to eat a LOT of them if that's all you ate.

There was an old Cold War joke:

The Russian general tells the American general, "My troops are well fed! They get 2000 calories per day!"

The American general counters, "My troops get 4000 calories per day!"

The Russian general answers, "Nonsense! Nobody can eat that number of potatoes!

This joke was resurrected in the late 90's, when the general folks were talking about how much USB stick storage their soldiers had.

The Russian general answered, "What!? Your soldiers have that much storage on their USB sticks!? Nonsense, then all your soldiers would be blind from masturbating"!