I have been back home for several hours but too busy to post. I said this morning that we would return to the food plant but we find that we have described it in detail already. See Food II. A blog search for "Food Plant" also brought up The Atmosphere Plant which links:
grass equivalents in Poul Anderson's works;
the "atmosphere plant" which is a grass equivalent on SM Stirling's Mars;
the atmosphere planet (different meaning) on ERB's Mars -
- and should also have mentioned Adolph Haertel's extraction of water from Martian vegetation and electrolysis of oxygen from the water in James Blish's Welcome To Mars. (I have just reread several chapters of this novel to find the references.)
Three versions of Mars - by Burroughs, Stirling and Blish, respectively - and one extra-solar planet by Anderson.
Now it is time for us to return to Argens, Valland and co on the "world without stars."
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The hoped for first explorers/settlers SpaceX/Musk hope to send to Mars might use a roughly similar food synthesizer plant. Esp. if gene tailored materials are used, as Stirling suggested in the combox for "Food II."
In his CHUN KUO series David Wingrove has atmosphere plants (factories) being used to help make Mars' atmosphere breathable.
Ad astra! Sean
Note that originally Mars had an ocean that covered about half its surface -- this is fairly well-established now.
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