“Chang’e 4 lander got cotton plants to sprout on the moon for the first time. Well, they’re already dead.”
This will greatly upset the 50 IQ neo-cons who believe in the fantasy of the ChiComm superman.
What about all the Chinese viruses and bacteria that traveled on the Cotton Plants? Are they all dead as well?
Even if the heat was regulated, 2 weeks of light followed by 2 weeks of darkness would cause problems as well.
Something was going right for them to sprout.
Not sure if Moon soil could be fertile or not.
You’d have to have an artificial oxygen supply and an air right green house. Could work out as other foods were grown there for nutrition.
Hydroponics has been studied quite a bit. Soil might not even be necessary these days.
Some interesting food for thought anyway.
There is supposed to be a large city on the dark side of our moon composed of benevolent aliens and members of the U.S. Space Corps. So I’ve heard.
Controlled humidity, air, water, and nutrients, but no temperature control or radiation shielding.
what no blanket
I think all they cared about was to see if they would sprout.
I’m going to guess they were smart enough to realize the sprouts would die with no light.
They needed Brawndo. It’s got Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave.
utter horse manure
Should have tried for a peanut, or bean sprout,
You beat me to it... well done
Here’s a longer article, linked to from this one -
https://gbtimes.com/lunar-nighttime-brings-end-to-change-4-biosphere-experiment-and-cotton-sprouts
I wonder what effect .16G might’ve had on the sprouts’ development?
Small defenseless organisms perish in chinese lunar gulag.
Ha! The very first thing I thought when I read the headline!
I could have personally saved them some effort on that one.
I don’t undestand the cotton plants.
The potatoes and yeast made sense though!
Boy a still would be easy on the Moon: vat in the sun, radiator in the shade.
Heck, the moon would be a fantastic place for a chemical factory, if there were aby chemicals.
They did not send some of their Zimbabwean friends along to tend the crops.
In the spring, when there’s lots of warm weather, water, and sunshine, plants (and animals) thrive.
In the winter, cold weather, not much sunshine, plants and animals don’t do as well.
It’s a little thing that most people would realize before trying to plant a living organism on the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (or the light side either, for that matter).