NASA astronauts set to feast on space-grown vegetables for the first time ever
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Astronauts on the International
Space Station will sit down to a very special meal tomorrow as they become the first people to ever eat vegetables grown on the station itself.
Members of the Expedition 44 team will tuck in to the fruits (and veg) of labour of NASA’s Veg-01 experiment resulting from food growth technology aboard the station’s orbiting laboratory - appropriately named Veggie.
A crop of red romaine lettuce will top the menu after being harvested 33 days after initially being planted. This is the station’s second batch of produce grown in the Veggie greenhouse, with the initial produce having been returned to Earth in October 2014 for food safety analysis.
The experiment is part of a wider mission to create sustainable conditions for NASA’s ongoing Journey to Mars program, with Veggie representing a viably sustainable food source that can be cultivated deep in space, far away from the reach of resupply shuttles.
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"Besides having the ability to grow and eat fresh food in space, there also may be a psychological benefit,” explained Veggie’s payload scientist Dr. Gioia Massa. “"The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits. I think that plant systems will become important components of any long-duration exploration scenario.”
As well as offering an alternative to NASA’s packaged food that they claim can only last two to three years, the Veggie laboratory also represents an opportunity for astronauts to take part in “recreational gardening activities” in the depths of space.
The Veg-01 experiment may also benefit those still stationed on planet Earth as, according to Dr. Massa, much of the technology and process involved in the Veggie laboratory could be applied to urban plant factories and agricultural practice designed to use electrical light sources and practice water conservation.
The Veggie laboratory is just one part of the Journey to Mars program that is developing the technology required to allow humans to reach an asteroid by 2025 and walk on the surface of Mars in the 2030s.
Space Station will sit down to a very special meal tomorrow as they become the first people to ever eat vegetables grown on the station itself. aboard the station’s orbiting laboratory - appropriately named Veggie.A crop of red romaine lettuce will top the menu after being harvested 33 days after initially being planted. This is the station’s second batch of produce grown in the Veggie greenhouse, with the initial produce having been returned to Earth in October 2014 for food safety analysis
.The experiment is part of a wider mission to create sustainable conditions for NASA’s ongoing Journey to Mars program, with Veggie representing a viably sustainable food source that can be cultivated deep in space, far away from the reach of resupply shuttles.
read morePlan to take lettuce to Mars could put life on red planet by 2018
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"Besides having the ability to grow and eat fresh food in space, there also may be a psychological benefit,” explained Veggie’s payload scientist Dr. Gioia Massa. “"The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits. I think that plant systems will become important components of any long-duration exploration scenario.” As well as offering an alternative to NASA’s packaged food that they claim can only last two to three years, the Veggie laboratory also represents an opportunity for astronauts to take part in “recreational gardening activities” in the depths of space. The Veg-01 experiment may also benefit those still stationed on planet Earth as, according to Dr. Massa, much of the technology and process involved in the Veggie laboratory could be applied to urban plant factories and agricultural practice designed to use electrical light sources and practice water conservation.
The Veggie laboratory is just one part of the Journey to Mars program that is developing the technology required to allow humans to reach an asteroid by 2025 and walk on the surface of Mars in the 2030s.
FBI says that citizens should have no secrets that the government can't access: the Orwellian cyber police state has arrived
Learn more: http://wwwThe police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic "1984" by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, like a frog sitting idly in a pan of steadily-warming water, too many Americans still seem unaware that the slow boil of big government is killing their constitutional liberties.
The latest sign of this stealth takeover of civil rights and freedom was epitomized in recent Senate testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who voiced his objections to civilian use of encryption to protect personal data – information the government has no automatic right to obtain.
As reported by The New American, Comey testified that he believes the government's spy and law enforcement agencies should have unfettered access to everything Americans may store or send in electronic format: On computer hard drives, in so-called i-clouds, in email and in text messaging – for our own safety and protection. Like many in government today, Comey believes that national security is more important than constitutional privacy protections or, apparently, due process. After all, aren't criminals the only ones who really have anything to hide?
In testimony before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled "Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy" Comey said that in order to stay one step ahead of terrorists, as well as international and domestic criminals, Uncle Sam's various spy and law enforcement agencies should have access to available technology used to de-encrypt protected data. Also, he believes the government should be the final arbiter deciding when decryption is necessary.
What could go wrong there?
Find more articles on the police state at PoliceState.news
Government, at all levels, is responsible
During the hearing, TNA reported, technology experts warned the panel that giving the FBI limitless access to the personal electronic data of Americans would open it up to exploitation by "bad actors." But Comey was having none of that.
"It is clear that governments across the world, including those of our closest allies, recognize the serious public safety risks if criminals can plan and undertake illegal acts without fear of detection," he told the committee.
"Are we comfortable with technical design decisions that result in barriers to obtaining evidence of a crime?"
So, in essence, Comey – like many before him, especially since the global war on terror was launched – believes that, in the name of national security Americans ought to give up more of their individual and constitutional rights because that's the only way we can be adequately protected.
Perhaps realizing that his Senate hearing testimony was public, Comey gave the Constitution a passing glance, noting that the government should respect the "requirements and safeguards of the laws" and the country's founding document. However, as Americans now know, spy agencies during the past two presidential administrations have been tasked increasingly with conducting warrantless, unchecked surveillance of Americans' electronic data and communications.
But all of this is not on men like Comey and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Congress bears its share of responsibility, too.
This is the way it is – shut up and take it
When such activities of the National Security Agency were exposed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, many in the media and among the American electorate were quick to blame the agency, as if it was somehow acting out of rogue instinct.
The reality is, however, that the agency is tasked to perform its duties– either by statutory law (think the USA Patriot Act) or by presidential directive (think Bush's order after 9/11 to conduct warrantless surveillance).
"We are not asking to expand the government's surveillance authority, but rather we are asking to ensure that we can continue to obtain electronic information and evidence pursuant to the legal authority that Congress has provided to us to keep America safe," Comey said during the Senate hearing.
What does all this mean? It simply means that at every level, government considers its own citizens hostile.
Oh, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Sources:
thenewamerican.com
nytimes.com
naturalnews.com
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