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Plants 'thrive' on Moon rock diet

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orby1976

posted on Apr, 17 2008 @ 01:17 PM
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Plants 'thrive' on Moon rock diet


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Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer.

An Esa-linked team has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food.
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orby1976

posted on Apr, 17 2008 @ 01:17 PM
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could we be closer to building a home on the moon??

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44soulslayer

posted on Apr, 17 2008 @ 01:45 PM
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Its terraforming time baby.

Though perhaps first we might want to consider taking the helium-3 out of moon rock... thats too useful to be fed to plants!


lombozo

posted on Apr, 17 2008 @ 01:52 PM
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Man! Growing plants on Moon Soil. I wonder if you can grow moon corn? If they ever grow moon wheat, I wonder if there would ever be moon wheat crop circles?



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