[GZG] Farmer in the Sky

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ci.com/technology/article/2011-03/plants-survive-radioactive-soils-chern
obyl-implications-space-farming

I love the understatement of the last paragraph....

Still, it is interesting that, at least from a radiation perspective, some
plants seem better able to cope than expected.

T.

--
Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus (from the book Agricola, attributed to a
speech from Calgacus)

Of course, I had a moment of scare reading "Previous Article: The Navy
Wants a Swarm of Semi-Autonomous Breeding Robots With Built-In 3-D
Printers
"

Then I read the article, and realized the paranoia was already there. He did
forget to mention Cylons, though.

Doug

Tom B wrote on 03/03/2011 08:24:21 PM:

> http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/plants-survive-