Farming On Mars
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- One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth?
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Farming On Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 373, December 15, 2022
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This channel has been very inspiring. I have only watched a few videos, but they are all very vivid and well explained.
Lucky you. You have many hours of amusement ahead of you.
You should immediately look up "Civilizations at the End of TIme: Iron Stars" -- super mind-fucky, as are the other videos in that series.
Yup, hours of very cool, educational and entertaining vids. Be careful not to develop Arthursday syndrome. ;)
@@sab1751 XD
As much as I love the visuals here on YT, Arthur also gives a bunch of his brain sheddings away (audio only) for free on Spotify!
Welcome and boy do you have a lot of good content to choose from now
I will never get tired of Issac Arthur politely inviting me to get myself a snack at the start of a video.
First time I ever saw an IA video that was the first thing I noticed....he's come a long way since then! Definitely one of the best YT channels
Seriously!
I'd love to meet this guy, I bet he is one of the coolest dudes you would ever know.
Sometimes I grab a bit of pizza and a appropriate beverage with barley in it.
@@orangemanonsteroids8569 I've talked to him a few times, he's a great physicist and a lucky man as well.
literally just found this channel and i love it
Well then two mottos we use here you should know. Think BIG, and If brute force isn't working, you aren't using enough of it.
Regular uploads Thursday Mornings and Sundays are bonus episodes and 1 live Q&A per month. There is a discord and reddit sub if you wish to talk to the community. Welcome in.
I find thst Issac provides the cure to nihlism by providing a vision. Discussing reshaping entire galaxies by pushing them together for resources has been discussed. Surving till the end of time as a meanigful concept also discussed.
Welcome in. 😃🙋🖖
Start on the playlist about aliens!! So bloody captivating and in-depth, honesty couldn’t recommend anyone but Isaac for these types of informational videos!
Oh to be watching Isaac's videos for the first time. Such a happy moment.😍
The gold standard
Welcome to the family
I've always liked this format for videos, which cover a mix of known and hypothetical future technologies, then lay out how they could be combined into a clear solution to a problem.
It makes the whole concept feel more real, and closer.
I hope we start practicing now by building agricultural arcospheres under mountains!
Or we could just keep throwing all the money we can at a losing military war with Russia, and kneecap the global economy with a needless economic war with China.
I used to have a high level feeling of existential dread until I found this channel around 5 years ago and just the way Isaac talks about the future and things that we can look forward to it has calmed my mind and relieved anxieties about the future and I have over the years watched every episode he has posted and now he feels like a comfortable friend who I get to listen to every week and it makes my heart and mind ......... Happy...... and thats a big thing for me
Thank You Isaac and Crew, may you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year
Wow!
Fantastic results!
Great episode. I'm super fascinated with regenerative agricriculture, food forests, etc. Coming from a Phoenix, AZ regenerated ag perspective, where shade is very important, it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine what pioneer species might be good candidates in a situation where sun is in lesser supply. It also brings into focus the difference between light, heat, and UV radiation from a tree's perspective, which I don't understand well enough yet.
I read '-where the sun is in laser supply' like the meme from Bill Wurtz's video.
Probably would wanna look at arctic lichen.
>withstand low temperatures
>grows on very poor media
>can deal with extensive periods of very low light
Happy Birthday to Isaac's mother.
Yet another informative episode as always Isaac.
I would say shrimp and crawfish would be a very effective source of protien that has a great ability to rapidly reproduce.they are also bottom feeders so they would subsist on detritus.
Exactly. And providers of nutrients and bacteria plants need. Aquaponia is the best this for this kind of mission.
@@jpdalvi agreed.
Crayfish and prawns would be best, as they would be using fresh water. And I guess we also have to think about snails, just to keep the tanks clean. Little by little, we build up ecosystems.
@@lukasmakarios4998 snails would be excellent. But are the aquatic ones edible?
@@phillip6083the snails would be there to keep the tanks clean, similar to how they're often put in aquarium.
I just love how hopeful he is he is so inspiring
Even if we never escape this planet we are on. Seems doubtful people will populate Mars any time soon if ever.
@@voidremoved i agree, but mostly because it almost always seems more economically viable to use space habitats like O'Neil Cylinders.
you mean,oblivious :)
@@PazLeBon I've always wondered about the small number of people who must be out there somewhere, hatewatching Isaac's videos, feeling their guts clenching over all that loathsome optimism and positivity and pro-human attitude, that insidious notion that the world's problems might have . . . *_solutions_* . . . .
@@arcadiaberger9204 pmsl, dont hate on skeptics, science is built on it. besides ,i can still admire other viewpoints without chastsing, even if I might find it fanciful.
Nothing brightens my day more than coming home after a long shift at the local, to see that the brilliant Isaac Arthur himself has uploaded another fascinating video for me to unwind and watch.
I always feel enlightened and this couldn’t be a better feeling than sitting down and watching some sitcom trash.
Much appreciation for all you do Isaac 💕💕
Also can we take a minute to appreciate the fact that the amazing videos aren’t littered with nonsense ads!! ❤
This episode is a return to form for my absolute favorite aspect of this channel: simultaneously informative and grounded while also being pure unadulterated sci fi writing inspiration
So what i'm probably missed is the part with the simulated Mars Soil Spinach, it was heavy loaded with Iron... So wondering plants, who will collect some specific sorts of minerals or Salts can be not only for Air Cleaning, soil making harvested, but also for the minerals.... thought i heard there is project in Austria with small flower who collect Iron, would be harvested, dried and then burned to extract the Iron in it?
Bioleaching is already big business & i'm sure phytomining will be eventually. That sort of tech is super useful back on earth to let us access the more dilute ores & even just random rocks. Especially since we're depleting all the most economical ores soon.
Iron poppys sounds lk an awesome concept.
@@virutech32 didnt know that there even was a name for, thank you!
@@virutech32 Well, yes. We're always depleting the most economical mines. That would be why those're the ones we're mining; nobody bothers with the $10/unit mine when they can instead run the $1/unit mine and sell for $9/unit making $8/unit profit and driving the other mine out of business. Once the economical mine runs out, supply contracts, the price goes up, and now the more expensive alternatives are 'economical.'
Sometimes that means working harder/paying more for the same stuff, sometimes that means replacing that stuff with something else; i.e., copper gets too expensive, it gets replaced by silver wires and plastic pipes.
There's a place in the US where they planted birch trees to suck up contaminants from an old industrial site.
Is iron oxide sufficiently magnetic to be separated out of the soil by magnetic means? (I know that it is the magnetizable medium in magnetic (audio and data) tape, and "floppy" disks, and I had heard of plans to use this method for isolating iron oxide from Lunar regolith for metal production.)
"Mars has all the nutrients plants need."
I hope Mars has electrolytes. It's what plants crave!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s first thought was Brawndo when he said that.
Thank you. Fellow Idiocracy fan.
However, it severely lacks nitrogen (2% on Mars versus 78% on Earth). We're going to need a lot of nitrogen if we're thinking of growing plants and animals.
@@sweezlesquee The problem is that you also have to take that nitrogen back in (or you die). So unless the recycling is absolutely perfect (it isn't) you're still going to have to import nitrogen.
And that is even if there are no new people being born on Mars, and no new ecosystems are being created. Everything that lives needs nitrogen, it is part of DNA and every protein in every cell out there. So to create new biomass you'll need nitrogen. (And phosphorus. And a few other things.)
We can just bring a bunch of Gatorade (powdered).
very nice love your vids isaac been watching since 2020 my first series was outward bound still watch it again from time to time your channel will stand the test of time
"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this!'
I always like best the episodes about near-future developments.
I mean, stuff about the end of time, or colonizing galaxies are okay, too, but this "day after tomorrow" sort of topic really sits well with me.
Happy Birthday to your mom!
I kind of want to read a novel about an interplanetary farmer now, lol.
Cultivating heavily gene tailored plants below the ice on Callisto.
"possibly some potato chips" and here I am.... *with potato chips*, how unusually prepared I am....
"Great minds" and all that.
Awesome episode, when you started narrating about the hypothetical colony on Mars, i was so happy, it made me think of you narrating an audio book
Whats your thoughts on the latest development of a Fusion reactor?
Fungus could be grown too? The veggie meat alternative Quorn is a form of fungus and brewed up in giant vats I believe. It might have higher protein than most plants, though you’d probably want both.
Happy birthday to Isaac’s esteemed mother! Thanks for a good one, Isaac, and Merry Christmas!
What we learn on Mars about practical extraterrestrial biology will write the book for space colonists into the distant future.
an interesting point: a plant that produces large amounts of hormones and proteins that promote bone growth in humans might be able to evolve rapidly into the first martian trees, or even into an animal-like plant. and even more interesting is that such plants might be necessary.
im slowly building a mars base in my head watching these.
Thanks for the drink and snack reminder! 🥂
it may be counterintuitive to consider fish as an early adoption in a settlement as there O2 consuming rather than producing, yet if your algae systems are producing a surplus of O2 that shouldn't be an issue. also an interesting thought about using algae to separate out heavy metals, does that diminish the O2 production or make the algae biomass unusable for fertilizer? interesting thoughts to consider for any off earth system (ships, habs, or terraforming) .
P.S. happy B-day SFIA mom. B)
Personally, I would say that fish are the perfect early adoption animal for agriculture on Mars. If you have fish, you can create an aquaponics system, which ironically uses less water/day than any other farming method yet known, and doesn't require soil at all to grow a wide range of plants (which is a problem according to this video). Grow algae for fish food, have an input of micro nutrients (small quantity), and fish+plants+sunlight+co2 can create a closed loop which produces vegetables and fish meat as a surplus. Assuming of course it still works on Mars, which we don't know yet.
I don't think they will pick and choose which (domesticated) animals to bring and which to leave behind, at least not after several trips. I'm sure they will want to know how well each animal fares in a Martian environment, so eventually they'll bring at least a few individuals of each species, regardless of how efficient they are, if for no other reason than for research purposes. Of course, that is if there's the budget for it.
They wont really know which animals are good on Mars until they actually try it. As you've said, it's a lot of guess work until we get there.
A most excellent one yet again. Watched it on Nebula but came here to support the video. :)
This video is very helpful as I’ve been doing research for constructing a timeline for the process of terraforming Mars. An important crop I use are dandelions as they are found to be robust crops in Martian conditions as well as serving both food and medicinal purposes. Another benefit is that if a more hospitable atmosphere is achieved they can easily spread and help establish a new ecosystem on Mars. As for animal livestock, those would probably be things like tilapia, non-hiving bees, and quail as well a animals we would experiment on like rats, mice, and fruit flies. The long term goal in the setting I’m constructing is that once Mars becomes more hospitable (with the aid of tech, microbes, and synthetic organisms), we would intentionally release the organisms we use for farming to establish a new ecosystem so basically everything living on the planet would be useful to us. I’m open to any feedback.
Frivolous comment, but: _Martian Chronicles_ x _Dandelion Wine._
What are the medicinal uses if dandelions?
3 to 7 times the cosmic radiation, less than half the sunlight of earth at best. No magnetic field to keep an atmosphere. Let alone getting there. Fun to ponder but not a real possibility except for a few souls willing to gamble their short lives. Sorry.
@@danielhalsey2679Mars still gets enough sunlight for plants, and deploying an artificial magnetosphere will help with radiation. It’s possible.
The regolith is an issue though.
Algae produced plastic domes layered with locally produced aerogel in between, brilliant! A lot prettier than mushroom shaped regolith adobe huts.
This man’s videos are always pure gold. Makes me hopeful for the future, which is definitely needed considering the current global situation.
At the beginning martian colonists or even large scientific research facilities would grow plants only to supliment the people diet with fresh vegetables(those are necessary for any human to have a healthy lifestyle for any period longer than few months), and because at least at the beginning is most efficient to bring from earth dry beans or rice and vegetables oils for basic metabolic needs , but if would be find a way to provide most of necessary dietary needs for keeping humans healthy and happy, that would happen eventually.
My brain absolutely refuses to stop putting "Sir" with Isaac Arthur.
Engage!
Name checks out. Yes sir.
@@corbynite2004 Make it so!
@@jean-lucpicard581 Hold your horses cap'n, I'm still trying to figure out these gosh darn panels with all the buttons and displays, you don't want us to warp into the sun, do ya? Now, let's see... red button... red button... hey Picard that facepalm isn't for me is it?
@@corbynite2004 * sighs deeply while putting head between palms *
Yeyyy, it's Arthursday!!
Due to the low gravity and the negative effects of it, I think orbital farms will be effective.
Today dirt farmer is now a derogatory remark. Tomarrow dirt farmer is a rich and influncial member of an off world scocity.
build river-like lakes for indoor walks, seafood, and o2 algae - ice as building material be self-sealing
(waterlocks as airlocks make living easy )
Bit of a weird question, but roughly how many O'Neill Cylinders could be created from ALL the resources of the solar system? Thanks
Depends on how big you want them. How thick they need to be. You get large enough you move onto Mackendrie cylinders. Heck if you take apart the sun an entire Birch Planet becomes possible. That is a project that would be thousands if not millions of years in the making but it would last far longer than a mere 5 Billion years.
I just wanted a rough estimate of how much land area and population growth could conceivably be created in the future
Apparently youtube will delete the comment if I include a link... sigh...
60 million cylinders from Oort cloud alone. Several billion from outer planets. Billions more from starlifting but we have to decide when/if we want to stop... anyways solsys humpop could be in the quintillions
@@cb-7422
I'm not much of an expert myself and hopefully Isaac Arthur sees your comment but from what I can get, probably billions of them from the planets alone.
That could get you in the quadrillions (Of people, not habitats) easy.
@@mill2712 But there was a previous video where he says you can harvest metal from stars in order to accrue enough material for trillions of habitats. It's fascinating to say the least
A lot of solar panels will be needed that must be cleaned periodically.
Happy Birthday momma Issac
Happy birthday Isaac Arthur's mom!
I identify as a Martian Farmer
Especially with the recent developments in fusion energy, it makes a lot of sense to use nuclear power offworld, while exporting deuterium and tritium back to earth for fusion use until reactors get built where the colonies are.
Isaac is good to listen to if your feeling anxiety. Thank you Isaac.
I've thought about this too. Genetically modified brine shrimp, with fish, beef, pork and chicken flavors would give you a 3D bio mass of protein.
People will travel to Mars and hopefully live there soon 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We could ship rabbits, guinea pigs and very young goats that would be fed, at first, with milk...along with alfalfa bales or those compacted cylindrical bales, to get the whole compost process started.
To follow up on the Brilliant section, our company is always hiring engineers, the ones we currently need the most are Structural Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Materials Engineers if your wondering what fields are in need and pay well.
Just had to plug your channel to two of my profs -- authors of the paper that you mentioned on bio-remediation of heavy metals using algae. Makes me feel like I am studying at a future-proof place 🙂
19:30 By the 2060s i reckon lab-grown meat will be even more common than "real" meat
lab-grown meat is already real and you can eat it in Singapore
The biggest hurdles arent technological , the actual problems are about bringing production to scale and , of course , the regulatory burden by goverments
But , I think it will be used extensively in Space colonisation , much cheaper to grow meat on mars than bringing the whole animal there, less water , space and energy intensive too...
23:20 and of course you were gonna adress it , but your info is a few years out of date
Elon will, no doubt, ship a few hundred TeslaBots to Mars in order to prepare for a later human wave. By the time humans arrive, I would expect that domiciles & farms, with attendant infrastructure, will be in place.
What about breeding or engineering very small beef or milk cattle?
With smaller bones.
With lower gravity, they wouldn't need big bones, that might even sort itself out automatically.
Happy Arthursday friends! I’ve got a long car drive ahead of me and I couldn’t think of anyone better to listen to while I drive. Live long and Prosper my friends 🖖🏻
Aquaponics is better way to go than hydroponics in the long run. The by products being useful in many ways, and the fact that the water gets used and clean by the very nature of the process.
Not to excuse hydroponics, but in my mind as a general setup, aquaponics should come on line in a big way early on.
I think farming on Mars will be hydroponic with some aquaponic adaptations. I hope lab grown meat can be a thing, steak is good.
We can import the biological organisms to fix nitrogen.
16:16 Could a mirror wobble like a Top to give each area it reflects Sunlight to a 24 hour day night cycle?
Isaac, have you ever played the game Surviving Mars? I think you would like it.
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson was a great primer for this video. Or vice versa
The Martian is an all time fav Science Fiction film. Gonna have to check out the novel, already know its gonna be much much better
are you saying.. playing cyberpunk on my laptop with ray tracing and ultra graphics will be how i heat my house?
Isaac has always given us quality documentary style videos through the many years I have listened to him.
But what I really love is how he uses his videos as a speech therapy for his impediment, and it really shows!
Keep up the amazing work sir, you deserve all the love in the world 🌎
I love your channel and i often put a playlist on when i have a hard time sleeping, NO not because its boring, i really enjoy your voice and really enjoy the topics, the ambient music is amazing and after half hour i can drift into the dream world and explore space on my own terms. Thanks for an amazing and interesting channel, merry christmas Isaac 💖
Mr. Arthur is such a great visionary, presenter and educator. Looking forward to 2023!
Cows would be great for Mars, the methane they produce could be put to so many uses
Related book recommendation: Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
It seems like aquaponics should play a big part in this kind of agriculture. The fish give you protein and provide the fertilizer for the plants with their waste.
Maybe initially, but I think the longer-term goal is to build soil, and the way nature builds soil is by growing things, which support microbial life in the soil through photosynthesis and providing decaying matter, and this feedback loop allows a succession of plants to grow, first the most pioneering species and later perennials that can provide food. But then that's the permaculturist in me talking, I'm thinking about terraforming :)
@@csgowoes6319 Agree on long term goals. Shorter term, I've been impressed with what you can do in a small footprint with aquaponics. A buddy of mine made an aquaponic vertical garden in about a 3' square space that could feed a family of 4 with faster grow times. It always seemed to me that you could distribute something like that so all your gardens were spread out. Even as supplementary grow, it seemed very promising to me.
Oh sure, seems inevitable early settlers would start out with hydroponics or aquaponics or whatever. Unless they are straight-up farming some genetically engineered, highly nutritional algae.
I’m only 5 minutes in but another good thing to grow on mars is whatever is good for Alcohol and/or ethanol like corn! Cleaning our workstations and wounds with the alcohol alongside a good backup for clean water as used throughout our short history!
Pretty much everything is good for alcohol. Not to mention its incredibly easy to teach Yeast to feed on what it normally struggles with. I have regularly bypassed different preservatives by selectively breeding yeast and it only takes a week or two. Boils down to those who can will, and those who will live, those who dont die. With split batch of various dilutions of whatever toxin you wish it to digest that would normally harm it and before you know it a strain appears that can handle it.... Then promptly explodes all over your room now that it can suddenly take advantage of the sugars and stuff you been feeding it lol. Fun times. Strong booze though... 30% which is friggin insane for brewing but its easy to make and I have done it multiple times now.
Can you please endorse brussels sprouts and baby carrots as a snack thanks 😂🙏
Forget agriculture Bio-reactors and precision fermentation are the way of the future.
I want to believe this, can you help me convince myself with some links to articles?
@@corbynite2004 right here on TH-cam a quick search for precision fermentation will provide ample results and answers for your questions.
@@juanfernandez1696 thank you sir, will look into it :)
Please do an episode on the net energy gain fusion reaction in Lawrence Livermore national laboratory, I know it’s too early to be a viable energy source but I feel this is pretty groundbreaking stuff and I am on the edge of my seat for some any more info about it. I’m sure soon someone will add in more technical info about it but I would value your opinion generally on it as well as your time frame on when this technology would be a viable option for energy generation in a practical sense. Thank you and love the video been a fan for years now.
I'm considering it but I usually plan and write episode a few months out, it would be old news by then and we've done a few fusion episodes already.
@@isaacarthurSFIA Maybe a community post or Short? Most people who follow you will be aware of it, but many won't and you could make lot of people extremely happy for Christmas. Merry Christmas by the way!
First
On average it takes two football fields of land to feed one person for a year. And that works out only because of the animal meat we eat to supplement it.
So, you're saying that two football fields _isn't_ enough, because you assumed eating critters but didn't count the land they use?
I want to go to Mars.
Underrated gem of an episode in my humble opinion, though I feel your predictions at 21:50 are off in terms of what animal(s) would be brought to Mars first. My guess would go as follows:
Phase I
Roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans)
Phase II
Mouse (Mus musculus)
Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis)
Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
Water Flea (Daphnia pulex)
Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini)
Flatworm (Dugesia japonica)
Phase III
Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
Chicken (Gallus domesticus)
Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)
Trout (Salmo trutta)
Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Honeybee (Apis mellifera)
Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
Cricket (Acheta domesticus)
Prawn (Penaeus monodon)
Nerite Snail (Vitta zebra)
Mussel (Mytilus edulis)
Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris)
Love it! More like this please
Cant wait to drink some Marsian moonshine
This is the earliest that I think I've made it to one of your videos. I found your channel two years ago and it has helped me through so much.
Thank you for doing what you do.
Farming on Mars is a hard row to sow. Before we should consider farming, we need to think about terraforming. MOAB blasts at the poles might kick up enough to restart an atmosphere. Why not nuclear blasts? Because such a blast would be a waist. It can only be as big as the atmosphere goes and right now that is negligible at best. So MOAB would actually be better to control. We should also think about harvesting asteroids and crashing them into the planet. If we did so, we would have enough water to start a colony. Keep in mind that any atmosphere we create will have the need to continue be renewed forever. A domed environment might be the best way to go.
I love listening to Issac talk about all the things this universe has to offer humanity sometime someday.
This issue on settlement of Mars is important as there is someone who wants to put the colonists in few decades.
have you heard of elon musk?
Musk? Lol, that guy is a clown, he is entirely dependent on the US government, and the US is a fading superpower.
First sustainable Mars colony will more likely be some sort of Russia-China-India project, maybe some broader involvement from BRICS+.
@@corbynite2004 yeah cos the poorer nations combined will get to mars first Russia probably gonna have some sort of sanctions on its space program after the war in Ukraine also im from brazil a BRICS country i know we won't be able to do anything and even if musk is dependent on the government he'll still get to mars and have a colony there even if it is backed by the us gov he'll still have the first Mabey the first colony on mars usa probably gets the first after either nasa or elon landed someone on mars.
Wait! I think your mother's birthday is on the same day as mine... We're both on the 14th of December. Right? Or is your mother's bday on the 15th? 🙂
Happy Birthday Mama Arthur!
Happy birthday to your mother.
F= M×A
atmophear has low mass.
I'm a big fan of these videos!
Note /quin-oah/ is actually /keen-wah/. 3:10
yep, I've been caught out with that chestnut also 😅
I’ve always wanted to try mars raised shrimp 🦐.
Mars "dirt" may have everything plants need..... but, does it have what plants crave??? Does it have BRAWNDO! ?
Excellent topic.if anything to make people realize the importance of our life support systems when forests in DRC are being auctioned off to oil and gas companies.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOMMA ARTHUR!
Mars might have a very thin atmosphere, but because it's 95% CO2 versus 400ppm on Earth, the partial pressure of CO2 (5.7mmHg martian versus 0.3mmHg Earth) is much higher. I hope this means that there's a chance, if we can engineer cold-resistant strains, of native plant growth :D
Staple foods, Seasonings, Supplements, and Medicine... and maybe some extra for our micro-livestock. Bugs don't need much to reproduce prolifically, and they offer more protein than most anything else. And honey bees for pollination. However, I would like to see chickens, fish, and rabbits if they can flourish with only 38% of normal gravity. There's also a way to grow fungi, yeast, and bacteria for useful things like food and medicine. I heard it called "fermentation farming."
If we don't bring artificial "meat", I think animals that can hibernate bears, squirrels, frogs, etc, Would make for a good transport food stock.
Maybe we could also GMO a cow with a hibernating gene for the travel to Mars. Or maybe GMO a person, to be able to hibernate. ;P LOL
Maybe I missed it. But should mention lichen could be useful here. Very tough organism that can turn rock into soil.
Thank you for the 4K video!
Making dry crytol fur a lies surs! And wax colting with type soils for adaptions on dna plant 🌵 cak this is water AQ types for remixes? Its plant science then! The garden Lady's ? Lol pentagons! Sections matching CA plants? It's thong her in plant signs! Y 🧬 wow new colors?
One day, people who are turning Mars into a new home for Earthlife will sing Dave Mallett's "Garden Song" this way:
_Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow_
_Work the soil and the slow 'till we make it fertile ground_
_Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow_
_Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down_
_Digging frost, crushing stone, Gonna make this world our own_
_Fertilize it with our bones, Put our life into the land_
_Mirrors shine, comets fall, Mars awakens at our call_
_Lots of work, but worth it all for a planet made by hand_
_Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow_
_Work the soil and the slow 'till we make it fertile ground_
_Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow_
_Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down_
_Awful dry, awful cold, and the soil is awful old_
_Superoxides won't unfold 'till you talk to them just right_
_But we endure, we persist, old Mars just can't resist_
_Life works like an alchemist with water, air and light_
_Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow_
_Work the soil and the slow 'till we make it fertile ground_
_Inch by inch, row by row, God bless these seeds I sow_
_Mars warm them from below, 'till the rain comes tumbling down_
The rain will fall on Mars, and the crops will grow, and Martians will gather and sing the old songs, and remember the people who created them, and the people who preserved them and carried them to new worlds, along with Earth's other seeds.
Because Octavia Butler was right: *_It is the destiny of Earthlife to take root among the stars._*
Well, Mars has a 2% humidity in its soil, far better than Death Valley, so it's not that barren. But still I´m a Venus fan, it's far better to be floating above its acid clouds than living on that red freezer, filled with perchlorate and radiation. Plus, crossing paths with possible martian microorganisms that we don't know how would behave in Earth's organisms...It's not a good idea. Thank you for this great video!