A cotton seed, carried to the moon by China's Chang'e-4 probe, is the first ever to sprout on the moon, according to scientists of a mini biosphere experiment on Tuesday.
After making the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, China's Chang'e-4 mission pioneered the first mini biosphere experiment on the moon.
The Chang'e-4 probe carried the seeds of cotton, rape, potato and arabidopsis, as well as eggs of the fruit fly and some yeast, to form a simple mini biosphere, according to a team led by scientists from Chongqing University in southwest China.
Images sent back by the probe showed that a cotton sprout had grown well, though no other plants were found growing.
Seedlings in space! First-ever cotton plant on the Moon growing in #ChangE4 mini biosphere https://t.co/L8YpXqoVIG pic.twitter.com/3NVoCBUn5M
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) January 15, 2019
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[...] The Chang'e-4 probe carried the seeds of cotton, rape, potato [...]
#MeToo
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China is looking taking steps into bringing humanity closer to space colonization.
Meanwhile in America NASA is almost completely shut down because Trump took the entire country hostage to force the construction of a useless wall.
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Well duh, China already has their wall built.
(Old Spike)
If Trump is willing to deal and the Democrats are not, I think it's fair to say the Democrats are the one's holding whatever hostage.
(Site Administrator)
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If you want to negotiate, you have to have a concept that is a bit more detailed than "build a wall".
One could blame the democrats for stalling if trump would have submitted a cost / benefit study including a concept of how mexico actually will pay for the wall. He didn't. His concept is GIFF MEEEE MAAAHR MUNNNEYYYYY!
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Pure genious on the part of POTUS! Mexico has capitulated and assumed the cost of construction!
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I can't wait until the Dems cave. I don't know about you.
(Site Administrator)
Will the Dems cave, auto? Right now the newsbites seem to just show fed up federal workers who are starting to line up at soup kitchens for free lunches. The longer this drags out, the more the President pays for it at the polls in 2020. He was baited by Chuck into going on record and saying this shutdown was on him, after all.