Mixing vermicompost into the regolith seems a bit like cheating.
Yeah, we NEED to find a way to cheat, cheating is what will let us actually do any of this.
You need far less composting agents this way, you can add a little to a lot of moon soil to make it fertile enough for growth, and then once plants get started it will work towards making even more compost/soil.
Now all they need are some daal and rice
Hydroponics can grow plants too
Did they poop in it?
That’s some great lunar regolith…
this looks familiar, whats it from…craig ferguson?
FFS… You can’t grow anything without an atmosphere.
FFS… you aren’t sending seeds up and sticking them in a vacuum in the powdered asphalt that is the moon’s surface, you are planting them in habitats for food and oxygen. Except that you can’t haul soil up with you. I mean, you could but it’s vastly expensive. If we have a way to use the “ground” that’s already up there, that’s a pretty big deal, because that shit is basically ground up glass.
No but it does mean we don’t need to ship up potting soil if a base were to be established.
