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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … -soil.html
Looking good for soil-based agriculture on Mars...but all a bit previous I would say. Make more sense to focus on direct food supply and hydroponic agriculture. I never really had any doubt we could use the Mars regolith to help make a soil...Although whether radioactivity is an issue for human health, I'm not sure.
Let's Go to Mars...Google on: Fast Track to Mars blogspot.com
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Hydroponic potatoes are not going to be made to work easily as light exposure of the tubers turns them green and poisonous. They are normally covered with a few inches of soil.
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The Old English word wyrm, sometimes known for maintaining the soil structure, humus is the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter. There are many types of sea-worm, Pseudoceros dimidiatus, divided flatworm or tiger flatworm, and "Ringworm" is not a worm but truly a skin fungus, woodworm is the wood-eating larva of many species of beetle. Hookworms intestinal, blood-feeding, parasitic roundworms. Paragordius tricuspidatus even manipulates its host like something from a horror fantasy scifi movie. Silk worm becoming the domestic silk moth, butterworm is the larval form and is commonly used as fishing bait and meal worms for pets, earthworm the terrestrial invertebrate that is good for soil. Megascolecidae is a taxonomic family of earthworms which is native to Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and both South East Asia and North America, the hermaphrodites each carries male and female reproductive ability, .
Frozen in Earth-ice for a long time some Ice worms come back to life
China battered by ‘rain of worms’ as residents asked to carry umbrellas
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/china- … OGOFJUQIA/
How to do a health check on your garden’s vital earthworm population
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg … opulation/
Earthworms are a great indicator of the state of soil.
A new bioinspired earthworm robot for future underground explorations
https://robohub.org/a-new-bioinspired-e … lorations/
Nano-tech?
Scientists Copy Silkworms to Spin Nanofibers
https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6383
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