China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars

[MichaelMcGuire]

Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported.

Four kinds of vegetables were grown in an "ecological life support system", a 300 cubic metre cabin which will allow astronauts to develop their own stocks of air, water and food while on space missions, Xinhua news agency said Monday.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-prepares-grow-vegetables-mars-050303251.html

[snooper2]

1. They need something to feed the workers too!

China vows to put a factory on Mars by 2012




JIUGUAN, CHINA

The People's Republic of China announced plans Friday to build an off-global factory on Mars before 2012 with the financial backing of major Western corporations, sources reported exclusively to the La Rochelle Times. Citing the advantages of limited pollution regulations, absence of land ownership and vast untapped resources, Peking announced its plans to construct a Mars-based production center that would be able to produce units cheaply for export to Earth. The previously prohibitve costs of interplanetary transport will soon be resolved by increasingly advanced Chinese aero-spatial vehicles that utilize the latest in ramjet and nuclear-hyperdrive propulsion, designed by recent Chinese graduates of top American institutions.

[Flipper999]

2. Is this satire? If it isn't, do you have a source for your paragraph?

It's a little hard to tell where you got this from. Also, "nuclear-hyperdrive propulsion"? As far as I know, nobody has this kind of technology.

[yawnmaster]

3. did a search...here it is...yes...satire...

http://rochelletimes.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

[benld74]

4. Honeee! I'm leaving for the market,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[HereSince1628]

5. I saw those movies!!!! n/t