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Trees and plants could be cultivated on Mars but for the cold. Maybe this device can help. Essentially it is like a large rolled up condom that fits over the plant. As the plant grows the condom slowly unrolls creating a greenhouse that is just the right size for the plant, trapping heat and condensation.
The green house is perforated to allow CO2 in and oxygen out.
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Does Mars have any CO2 in it's practically nonexistent atmosphere? Also, the plants are not gonna have nearly as much fun with a condom on. |
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... and Femidoms of Venus, with perforations for Virgina Jam? |
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Not sure that trees would be the easiest things to grow on Mars. I'd guess that moss or ferns would be easier to grow. |
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I don't suppose pollination would happen with bees there.
Where does it get its moisture from? |
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This is actually a pretty nifty idea. It would be better using clear plastic wrap, which would be crinkled accordion style around the seedling and fixed to a ring staked to the ground. It should be for plants with a vertical growth habit. The GCOM would also discourage bugs and rabbits. You would want to do this with a plant that could lift the GCOM up as it grew. A grafted tree or flower grown from bulb would have the push. Not sure about a puny seedling. |
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A few years ago, I had the idea to design Mars components with clear plastic parachutes, and clear plastic airbag balloons. These would then be used as miniature greenhouses to hold lichens, and snow algae, which, I believe, are pretty close to capable of surviving in the dry, thin air of Mars as is. |
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Isn't this a solution without a problem? Places on mars can get up in the 80's during the summer. And certainly there are grasses that can survive the winters. |
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That's like saying greenhouses are not required on Earth becuse some places get up to 40c |
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Well, greenhouses aren't required on earth ;) |
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mebbe a condom which lets chlorophyll spectrum through for the plant but absorbs the rest, heating it up. |
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You will want some of the heat if not the moisture to be able to escape...and probably be recouped for some other task. (+) |
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And...speaking of greenhouses...why not a greenhouse? |
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actually, considering the dust-storms on Mars, we might have to go with a greenhouse anyways [-] |
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Condoms still work in dust storms, though. At least that's my experience. |
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[21], you think that something covered by a condom is not still beautiful? ;-) |
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I suspect the CO2 isn't the problem, rather it'll be the very low levels of illumination, and the cold. Maybe we could combine the Condom with a spherical sector mirror, so that the tree gets a lot more sunshine. Don't want parabolic, since we'd end up cooking one point. |
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Alternatively a conic mirror would work just as well (and would be a lot simpler to fabricate on site!) |
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/very low levels of illumination/ |
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Why would this be the case on Mars? Distance from the sun? |
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A greater good for the perforated condom. |
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Not as silly as it might seem: Transparent tents over plants
on Mars would work = green housing for then plants, a
possible step toward Terraforming Mars. The tents would
build up water vapor and Oxygen for future use from the
plants' reduction of CO2. |
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