prettybunnys comments on Scientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 40 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Vermicompost is something you can readily make on the moon, meaning with this it proves you can take a resource available on the moon and grow in it.

Big deal IMO.

Well. “Proves” since it’s simulated regolith, not real regolith, and it was done on earth.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

I started out wondering if this simulation would work again in lunar gravity, and now we also need vermiculture to work in lunar gravity.

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

We’re already working on worms in space!

Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago

Cool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.

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