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Re: Theos-World Martian soil appears able to grow asparagus

Jun 29, 2008 11:18 AM
by Morten Nymann Olesen


Sure, but the next step will of course be to think in commercial terms about Mars and how to use its soil. Saying that none of the present day insane merchants are thinking about it I would consider dubious.



M. Sufilight

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  Morten,
  In your local Garden Center you can appraise two types of manual measuring devices. One is a Water Meter that has a long probe that you stick in the soil and it measures what the water content level is. The other is a PH Probe Device, you stick in the soil and it measures the PH found at that time. Ideal PH for most plants is around 6 - 6.5 PH and is called "Sweet." the alkaline scale is from 7 PH and higher and high alkalinity stresses and inhibits many plants. There are resources online for PH Meters that describe ideal PH ranges. I just thought this might be helpful as when I read the Mars scientist statement on alkalinity and plant culture I reflected most of them never gardened.

  Regards, John

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  From: "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-theosophy@stofanet.dk> 

  Well great.
  I thought I once heard something about Alkaline batteries or something like that.
  Mars is really becoming more and more something of a commercial asset to some persons.

  M. Sufilight

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  From: Cass Silva 
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  Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:03 AM
  Subject: Re: Theos-World Martian soil appears able to grow asparagus

  To be more accurate Morten, 'they' haven't found ice, they are deducing that it is melted ice because it disappeared. Also 'they' state that the soil 'appears' to support life and in the same breath tell us that it would need to be improved? My conclusion is that if there are lifeforms on Mars they are more alkaline than acidic.
  Cass

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  Morten and all,
  you can go to the following for direct articles on Mars or the phoenix Lander :

  >>>www.spacedaileye xpress.com< <<

  >>>www.spaceflightn ow.com<<<

  John

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  From: "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-theosophy@ stofanet. dk> 
  To all readers

  I thought some of you would like to know the following from Reuters and NASA...

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  Martian soil appears able to support life
  Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:19pm EDT

  By Jill Serjeant

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it.

  Scientists working on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, which has already found ice on the planet, said preliminary analysis by the lander's instruments on a sample of soil scooped up by the spacecraft's robotic arm had shown it to be much more alkaline than expected.

  "We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life whether past present or future," Sam Kounaves, the lead investigator for the wet chemistry laboratory on Phoenix, told journalists.

  "It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. ... It is very exciting for us."

  The 1 cubic meter (35 cubic feet) of soil was taken from about 1 inch below the surface of Mars and had a pH, or alkaline, level of 8 or 9. "We were all flabbergasted at the data we got back," Kounaves said.

  Pressed on whether there was still any doubt that life existed on Mars in some form, Kounaves said the results were "very preliminary" and more analysis was needed.

  But he added: "There is nothing about the soil that would preclude life. In fact, it seems very friendly ... there is nothing about it that is toxic."

  http://www.reuters. com/article/ scienceNews/ idUSN26349526200 80626

  M. Sufilight

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