Yay, you're back! " The above is philosophical reflection I donβt usually engage with because I donβt want to be some lady on the internet telling you how to think." Ah don't worry, at least you are self aware about it. And I was told the green part of the potatoes causes cancer
Glad to be back! I did not MEAN to take a month off posting, but it was a VERY busy month for me. I think the green part has a bunch of solanine(s?), which can mess up your digestive system. It probably also causes cancer tho.
KSR's Mars trilogy was better though, and I re-read it with Robert Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" came out in the mid 1990s. Just waiting for the solution to the radiation during travel... and for how long 'we' have to stay cave dwellers while the terraforming happens...
That guy 'Sax' planting trees... hero. : ))))))
Best green spuds, when mashed with finely chopped parsley mixed in. ; ))))))))))
Microbiologist, not botanist here, and it's been a long time since I read the book, but (spoiler coming) weren't all the microbes he was working with for his soil from human feces?
Peas can't fix nitrogen on their own, they recruit nitrogen fixing bacteria and form special organs to cultivate them in a symbiotic relationship. But I don't think many if any of those microbes would be viable in stool, so the peas probably wouldn't help much on that front.
No, the book specifically mentions that he brought samples of Earth soil and had to sprinkle them on top of the Martian soil and his dried feces, which as I recall did not actually have any bacteria in it because of the way it had been dried.
Yay, you're back! " The above is philosophical reflection I donβt usually engage with because I donβt want to be some lady on the internet telling you how to think." Ah don't worry, at least you are self aware about it. And I was told the green part of the potatoes causes cancer
Glad to be back! I did not MEAN to take a month off posting, but it was a VERY busy month for me. I think the green part has a bunch of solanine(s?), which can mess up your digestive system. It probably also causes cancer tho.
Excellent.
KSR's Mars trilogy was better though, and I re-read it with Robert Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" came out in the mid 1990s. Just waiting for the solution to the radiation during travel... and for how long 'we' have to stay cave dwellers while the terraforming happens...
That guy 'Sax' planting trees... hero. : ))))))
Best green spuds, when mashed with finely chopped parsley mixed in. ; ))))))))))
I found this, and thought it fun. No, truth to tell, Gemini found it for me:
https://berlinexperiences.com/did-frederick-the-great-introduce-the-potato-to-germany-mythbusting-berlin/
Microbiologist, not botanist here, and it's been a long time since I read the book, but (spoiler coming) weren't all the microbes he was working with for his soil from human feces?
Peas can't fix nitrogen on their own, they recruit nitrogen fixing bacteria and form special organs to cultivate them in a symbiotic relationship. But I don't think many if any of those microbes would be viable in stool, so the peas probably wouldn't help much on that front.
No, the book specifically mentions that he brought samples of Earth soil and had to sprinkle them on top of the Martian soil and his dried feces, which as I recall did not actually have any bacteria in it because of the way it had been dried.