photos by aa_just_thowt, orange art 1969 and NASA
I remember coming up with the idea of terra-farming the moon with cannabis and turkeys over a bong… many moons ago. Now it looks like Nasa is hip to the trip.. minus the cannabis, and turkeys..
The idea is simple: Fly a simple plant habitat to the moon. Bring along seeds (you don’t have to care for them or feed them on the launch pad or the flight out). Germinate them inside your lunar plant-growth module on the surface and see how they cope with the low gravity, temperature and pressure as well as the high radiation by monitoring their gene expression. You can even go a step further and add lunar soil to the chamber to monitor the toxicity of the soil or the content of the soil.
via Wired
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