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- redrob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Did you even read the article? They explain how bulbs, such as a tulip, don't need nutrients from the soil in order to grow and therefore are well suited to such an experiment, they also explain how it would be planted in the soil but "planted inside a plastic biosphere with carbon dioxide on tap". Moreover, the also point out that the site of primary consideration is in a polar region where there is light all year round.
- pjsk8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Besides.....it's AMSTERDAM!
I'm sure they know how to grow a plant or two. - dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Oh its on now! Arms race... They wanna plant a flower... hah, we'll plant a garden, what now?
- draegloth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16am I the only one envisioning mutant space spiders riding tulip shaped rockets surrounded by armies of robotic mosquitos down to earth to enslave the pathetic dolts that banished them to the moon?
- iupetre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Walmart
- ModernGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8There was a space treaty signed a long time ago stating that nobody owned any of the extra terrestrial real estate, and that it's proper owner is one who actually uses it. So you can't run around saying you own the moon unless you build a house there and live on it. Looking at this, and other property laws, it seems it would be a first come first serve type of thing. Think of an uninhabited island in the middle of the pacific. Nobody has claimed it as their own, but if you were to claim it as yours, and you did nothing with it, nothing stops somebody else from claiming it as their own and building a house. A quick google brings you this:
http://usa.lunarregistry.com/info/embassy.shtml
Digg needs better moderation and better readers. The discussion and reporting here sucks. Who cares if digg gets a story out ten minuets faster than slashdot? There is no discussion here at all. - portis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Okay, so they plant it. But do they have a robot to water it?
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"no matter hope bad you wish it."
Good talk, go home. :) - camiller, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"why is everything a race? why can't we as humankind work together as one towards a common goal? this is the downfall of people guys..."
Because competition is healthy for the soul. It invigorates the mind and spirit. We will all get farther, faster in competition than we will in cooperation. - CaffiendCA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Spiders, radiation & no predators... What could possibly go wrong!
- dromeditor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10We CANNOT allow a plant gap!
...Dr. Strangeglove, anyone? - szelij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It would not happen on Mars though, because contamination is a particularly important issue. But the moon is dead so no biggie there.
- rocketrye12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6planting a spider...interesting, I dont think that will work even on earth!
- zezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If for some reason the plants go crazy and start growing everywhere, we'll just send up some cane toads to eat them!
- CedanticPunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The only indigenous species are the Clangers. I suggest we kill them.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Who's going to water it?
- CedanticPunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The moon clouds... duh!
- Zlobadon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Those appeasers! I like this plan better -- http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"The first country that planted a flag there, of course."
Bugs Bunny? - Levin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6This might be a stupid question and if so I'm sorry...Who owns the moon? Just something I've always wondered.
- camiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Only in spring.
- bigkm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a waste of money.
of course putting a flower in its one atmosphere and giving it light will pretty much grow, but what is the point. - kofspades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What happens when the moon is filled with cane toads?
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It could be a problem for planets/moons that have an existing biosphere. Don't see how this would mess up them moon, but I'm sure they thought that about cane toads.
- blahblah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Because competition is healthy for the soul. It invigorates the mind and spirit. We will all get farther, faster in competition than we will in cooperation."
What an extraordinarily narrow-minded, ill-informed, and poorly thought out opinion. Competition is nothing more than the hiding of ideas, ideas which could be used to inspire progress in the work of fellow human beings which could be used for the benefit of humanity. Whatever one might say the usefulness of the ISS, it would not have been possible without international collaberation. The only reason humanity is still stuck on the earth facing all the severe problems we are today is BECAUSE there NEVER HAS BEEN cooperation between the nations and the peoples of the world. - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Cool !!!
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The same way you plant a knee into a groin or plant drugs on a crime scene. Welcome to the English language.
- windowboxes, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Okhey let me bind my belongings too....myself gardening lover too and would like to do gardening at moon.....
http://www.flowerwindowboxes.com/Window-Boxes.html - vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anybody else think it might be a bad idea for an alien species to be implanted someplace else? Isn't that why we have Customs resrticting what you can bring into different countries?
- birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And then we can create MoonDisney
- Tweidle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I for one welcome our Tulip over lords.
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How would one plant a spider? Or a robot insect for that matter?
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1of course, the moon clouds. Geez, why did I even ask? :)
- lazerdave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I for one welcome our new Mutant Lunar Arachnid overlords.....
- lost84001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What do you think we'll eat when we actually start to live out there? We can't take everything with us. And ordering out isn't too practical... We'll have to grow our own food - and that means taking our cooties with us!
- lazerdave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And I, for one, welcome our new Moon Tulip Overlords! May your petals face ever sunward!
- deusdiabolus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They should plant some Zoysia grass. Allegedly, that stuff will grow everywhere.
- lazerdave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Venusian Mongeese will take care of those!
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I volunteer!
- underdog5004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, has anyone considered that since the moon has no atmosphere, the temperature of the dome where the plant is...planted...will fluctuate from extreme cold to extreme heat?
PS - my verification code was BArKe...appropriate for woody plants. - rgremill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All of the comments above your's were jokes. Maybe DIGG needs a "I'm just joking" flag or something.
Now I'm thinking maybe MTV owns the moon. - zoxed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2IMHO the Digg title is misleading (so what is new).
I read TFA, and to me it does not look like a plan: it looks like one idea, from one guy in a think-tank. Not a plan for Europe !! - 1337Martini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Watch the flower mutate and end life as we know it. :|
- Chilerosas, on 11/28/2008, -0/+0Who's going to water it?
People of http://www.chilerosas.com - Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why spiders?!?!?! dear god then i will never go to he moon. we are tainting it by putting spiders!!!
[just "slightly" arachniphobic] - B0jangles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Could this result in a pretty red moon?
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Someone's selling a real moonrock on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dhofar-1180-Lunar-meteorite-from-Oman-Real-Moon-rock_W0QQitemZ6620304387QQcategoryZ3239QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - draegloth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm not joking. I want my royalties.
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6The way of future space exploration will be...........private enterprise.
The days of government funded Apollo-like projects went out with the cold war.
US admin. has other priorities, like protecting it's Middle-east oil reserves........
and keeping climatologists and environmental biologists quite about global warming. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11ooo... i think we have a Mr. Scientist here...
Did you even READ the article? They plan to plant bulbs that don't require and nutrience from the surrounding soil, they supply their own. And they are also scientifically engineering plants to adapt to the new enviornment.
Please read the article next time.. -
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