Comments on: Gazing on planet Earth

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:57:01 +0000

Yes. Sarah Eberle has already given thought to the aesthetic issues regarding garden design on Mars. We will not hesitate to extend the coverage of our Garden Finder to Mars at the earliest opportunity - help from visitors most welcome, as ever!

By: christine

christine — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:38:35 +0000

Perhaps it wont be too long before you write about the first Martian garden for gardenvisit?
[ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12577999 ] Here is an artists impression of a greenhouse on Mars. [ http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/25feb_greenhouses/ ]

Not sure how this person determined the plants were from Mars?
[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aodland/1656351875/ ]

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:40:53 +0000

The Buddha, Christ and Confucius probably died without knowing that each other’s countries existed, poor things. And all readers of this blog post are likely to die without knowing whether we are alone in the universe, poor things. But IF the people now living could find some way of diverting money from bankers’ bailouts to astronomers then the youngest of us might discover how important, or unimportant, we are. Instead of building that stupid International Space Station they should have built an International Space Observatory on the moon, or somewhere.
Some further thoughts:
1) all species become extinct
2) our planet will end in ‘ice or fire’
3) so sustainability is only a very minor holding operation