Ah plants on moon!

By S Mukhtar. Dated: 1/24/2019 10:49:43 AM

"Uncle."
"Yes son."
"New year: First week: Great news!"
"Yes, what say?"
"Thrilling news…that our earthly cotton seeds taken on moon have there grown buds. Ah an earthly plant being grown on moon…fantastic really! Great Uncle, but details…please, please?"
"Dear; some detail I have, patience, and listen. Last year, Professor Xie Gengxin of Chongqing University (China) revealed that the Chang'e-4 mission will be launched in 2019. The mission will take potatoes sealed inside a 'mini ecosystem' and silkworm larvae sharing a small cylinder on to the moon, and results will show whether or not spuds and insects can survive there."
"And Uncle then?"
"Dear, lo the Chang'e 4 mission did touch down on the moon's far side facing away from earth, on 3 January 2019! It was the first mission of its kind."
"And what did the mission take to moon?"
"Yes dear: Besides other things, - soil containing cotton and potato seeds, yeast, fruit fly eggs. The seeds were rendered dormant for the 20-day journey from earth to moon."
"And Uncle, what then happened?"
"The ground control centre sent command to water the seeds and soon the Chinese state media reported the cotton seeds had now grown buds."
"Uncle, so for the first time?"
"Yes dear. Plants have been grown on the International Space Station before but this was the first time any biological matter has grown on the moon."
"Uncle: great!"
"Indeed! Fred Watson, Australian Astronomical Observatory's astronomer-at-large, told the BBC the development was good news and 'It suggests that there might not be insurmountable problems for astronauts in future trying to grow their own crops on the moon in a controlled environment.' It now seems possible that astronauts can harvest their own food in space and on moon, and so shall not have to come back down to earth for supplies."
"Great, great, great indeed: Great Uncle but greater now are my worries and fears."
"What? Why?"
"Look to the dark side first - your advice. And I am looking to that side here."
"Yes what?"
"I fear many must have now started thinking about the establishment of so-called defence installations in outer space and on the moon. Our Mother Earth now is largely a nuclear volcano and now outer space and moon too might be. Gorbachov once said that the then USSR nuclear arsenal alone would reduce our entire Mother Earth to dust in space - and now what about our outer space and moon when such arsenals get spread there too everywhere. "
"Dear, your fears your worries are not all false. The third world war might be a War of Worlds. Dear…Genius, yes, Man has his proved! May God grant him equal Sense too! Dear, live long! And pray to God!"

 

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