XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
      
   >In sci.physics Jeff Findley  wrote:   
   >> In article <29k0dd-vco.ln1@mail.specsol.com>, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com   
   >> says...   
   >>>   
   >>> In sci.physics Alain Fournier  wrote:   
   >>> > On Oct/11/2016 at 8:19 PM, Serigo wrote :   
   >>> >> On 10/11/2016 6:10 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:   
   >>> >>> In article , invalid@invalid.com says...   
   >>> >   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >>>> no food, no water, no air.   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >>> There is a bit of water on Mars (e.g. polar regions)   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> conjecture, not proven and so little, unusable.   
   >>> >   
   >>> > Well, let's say it is a very strong conjecture.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >>> and again a CO2   
   >>> >>> atmosphere.  Food could be grown.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> all moisture would leave the plant.   
   >>> >> Not enough CO2 or atmosphereic pressure to support any plants.   
   >>> >> Radiation will kill it off in a few years.   
   >>> >   
   >>> > You would do so in pressurized greenhouses. It can be done.   
   >>>   
   >>> Just because something can be done does not mean it should be done.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You mean like growing tomatoes in greenhouses in Canada instead of   
   >> growing them in open fields in a more temperate climate?   
   >   
   >Nope.   
   >   
   >If you are going have food on Mars you would have to have pressurized,   
   >sealed, and lighted greenhouses.   
   >   
   >The Cold War is over so there is no point in doing something that has   
   >no other point than our dicks are bigger than Russian dicks, which   
   >was the point of the Apollo program.   
   >   
      
   So no reason to waste all that money on toasters, then.  No Buck   
   Rogers, no bucks, bucko.   
      
      
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