Spuds of Mars
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The International Potato Center (CIP) launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under Mars atmospheric conditions and thereby prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth.
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you will never imagine the surprise
on that night in the wasteland sand
of Cydonia near Arandus Crater when
i came across spuds with alien eyesthese unsmiling eyes were not Irish,
and, they'd never make a Happy Meal;
as they began to eat my DNA, i said:
on Earth you'd make a gourmand dishwhen their feast on me's over, they
complained my brain wasn't as salty
as those delicious wheels and gears
they munched on from the Mars Roverscientists forgot how nature abhors
crossing vegetables with carnivores«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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The International Potato Center (CIP) launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under Mars atmospheric conditions and thereby prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth.
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you will never imagine the surprise
on that night in the wasteland sand
of Cydonia near Arandus Crater when
i came across spuds with alien eyesthese unsmiling eyes were not Irish,
and, they'd never make a Happy Meal;
as they began to eat my DNA, i said:
on Earth you'd make a gourmand dishwhen their feast on me's over, they
complained my brain wasn't as salty
as those delicious wheels and gears
they munched on from the Mars Roverscientists forgot how nature abhors
crossing vegetables with carnivores«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
BillWoodruff wrote:
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The International Potato Center (CIP) launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under Mars atmospheric conditions and thereby prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth.
If the goal is "prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth" wouldn't it be more sensible (easier, less expensive, completely relevant results) to just test that directly? Methinks I'll apply for a scientist job at the CIP, clearly they have a lot of free time, a huge research budget and likely well paid.
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BillWoodruff wrote:
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The International Potato Center (CIP) launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under Mars atmospheric conditions and thereby prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth.
If the goal is "prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth" wouldn't it be more sensible (easier, less expensive, completely relevant results) to just test that directly? Methinks I'll apply for a scientist job at the CIP, clearly they have a lot of free time, a huge research budget and likely well paid.
I'm guessing someone just got round to watching The Martian[^] and thought "Hey! Free potato related publicity!" But then, I am a cynical old OriginalGriff.
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