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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Designer Plants on Mars

*Rik:

This is stuff I think up when falling asleep, for Flying Spaghetti Monstersake!

ROFL!    That's brilliant.  ::jots down for later use::  Teehee.

... how did this come to be ...

Natural selection couldn't do the job?
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I think the bigger question is what about the biology allows it to survive. For instance some plants and animals produce a natural antifreeze to help deal with cold temperatures.

Yeah, that's really cool.  Even if I do get enough of those danged P. whatever's in my work...(for Flying Spaghetti Monstersake!).

Natural antifreeze, hmmmm.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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Palomar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Designer Plants on Mars

I'd thought these things had been done ages ago already. Sigh. This is stuff I think up when falling asleep, for Flying Spaghetti Monstersake!

  Rik, I remembered this.  And have now seen this article      Lol!!

I've converted. 

Back on topic...

--Cindy 

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Yang Liwei Rocket

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Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 993

Re: Designer Plants on Mars

I think many of the Astronauts on a future Mars-bound spacecraft will also likely also grow at least some of their food, the Moon if it is to be a success should be also pushing to be self- sufficient but finding the right balanced mix of supplies and then of crops and understanding their effects on both crew and spacecraft are necessary concerns.

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