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Title: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: Bitman_Begins on June 25, 2011, 07:02:26 PM Anyone into space-age stuff? Looks like we will soon be living on other bodies within our Solar System. 8)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13852801 Quote Scientists working with astronauts on the International Space Station are "very pleased" with the results of a small food-growing trial. Italian and American scientists say plants can be grown without the Earth's gravity, using specialised water, soil and light techniques. Duncan Kennedy reports from Rome. Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2011, 07:06:30 PM SPAAAACCCCCE! (http://www.portal2sounds.com/298)
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: NghtRppr on June 25, 2011, 07:13:47 PM It's a personal pedantic pet peeve of mine when people confuse free fall with a lack of Earth's gravity. The Earth's gravity acts on the moon. It has no problem reaching a tiny fraction of that distance to a space station.
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: em3rgentOrdr on June 25, 2011, 07:16:09 PM Finally.
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: benjamindees on June 25, 2011, 07:55:10 PM It's gonna be the future soon.
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: philipp on June 26, 2011, 06:28:01 PM AFAIK this (growing plants, not the exact experiment) has been done on MIR before.
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: fascistmuffin on June 27, 2011, 05:33:36 AM Now the trick is to get people to care about this over American Idol.
Title: Re: Plants Have (Now) Been Grown In Space! Post by: MatthewLM on June 27, 2011, 01:05:25 PM Why is this good news? It just shows that no real progress is being made because it isn't as if growing plants is a major breakthrough.
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