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Home on the Moon
« on: December 06, 2013, 07:08:04 AM »



Ever since Google announced that they'd be going to the moon in 2015, NASA has been planning to hitch a ride with the tech giant. The space agency's goal is to stow a few hitchhiking plants aboard the eventual winner of Google's Lunar X Prize and then unload them upon the surface of the moon.

Once upon the lunar surface, these plants, encapsulated in their own little greenhouses, will test whether plants can grow upon the moon. So far NASA is planning on sending basil, turnips and some flowers to the lunar surface in the hopes that they will be capable of surviving the radiation that the moon's thin atmosphere experiences. As seedlings, plants can be just as susceptible to damage from radiation as we are, so you could say that the turnips and flowers will actually function in part as a human analogue.

f the plants thrive on the moon, this could be the very beginning of a lunar terraforming effort that could see gardens and flower beds popping up all over the lunar surface someday. As well as providing a source of food for future lunar colonists, these plants would quite literally bring something of home to those of us who might someday leave Earth for greener pastures.


If anyone cares, this is exactly how the ball gets rolling in Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars trilogy.
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"Hey my friends are the ones that wanted to eat at that shitty hole in the wall that only served bread and wine.  What kind of brick and mud business model is that.  Stick to the cart if that's all you're going to serve.  Then that dude came in with like 12 other people, and some of them weren't even wearing shoes, and the restaurant sat them right across from us. It was gross, and they were all stinky and dirty.  Then dude starts talking about eating his body and drinking his blood...I almost lost it.  That's the last supper I'll ever have there, and I hope he dies a horrible death."

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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2013, 07:48:41 AM »
So here's how it is... Earth got used up...
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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2013, 08:05:05 AM »
Quote from: Tiger Wench on December 06, 2013, 07:48:41 AM
So here's how it is... Earth got used up...

so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of earths.
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"Hey my friends are the ones that wanted to eat at that shitty hole in the wall that only served bread and wine.  What kind of brick and mud business model is that.  Stick to the cart if that's all you're going to serve.  Then that dude came in with like 12 other people, and some of them weren't even wearing shoes, and the restaurant sat them right across from us. It was gross, and they were all stinky and dirty.  Then dude starts talking about eating his body and drinking his blood...I almost lost it.  That's the last supper I'll ever have there, and I hope he dies a horrible death."

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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2013, 08:38:08 AM »
Quote from: Saniflush on December 06, 2013, 08:05:05 AM
so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of earths.

We tried this. Kahn stole it!
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Five statements of WISDOM
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2013, 08:47:38 AM »
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"Hey my friends are the ones that wanted to eat at that shitty hole in the wall that only served bread and wine.  What kind of brick and mud business model is that.  Stick to the cart if that's all you're going to serve.  Then that dude came in with like 12 other people, and some of them weren't even wearing shoes, and the restaurant sat them right across from us. It was gross, and they were all stinky and dirty.  Then dude starts talking about eating his body and drinking his blood...I almost lost it.  That's the last supper I'll ever have there, and I hope he dies a horrible death."

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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2013, 09:09:48 AM »
Quote from: Saniflush on December 06, 2013, 08:05:05 AM
so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of earths.

You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2013, 09:21:11 AM »
Quote from: Saniflush on December 06, 2013, 08:47:38 AM
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Dr. Simon Tam: Eta Kooram Nah Smech!
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Five statements of WISDOM
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2013, 09:42:22 AM »
Quote from: CCTAU on December 06, 2013, 09:21:11 AM
Dr. Simon Tam: Eta Kooram Nah Smech!

Da-shiang bao-tza shr duh lah doo-tze
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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2013, 09:42:50 AM »
Will I get my AU games there?
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Re: Home on the Moon
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2013, 02:03:14 PM »
Quote from: dallaswareagle on December 06, 2013, 09:42:50 AM
Will I get my AU games there?

I hope not. Davis would have never been able to catch that ball.
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Five statements of WISDOM
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
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