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Revok
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Space weed
#26380917 - 12/14/19 08:54 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Won't get you high... 
SpaceX's Next Space Station Delivery Includes a Stash of Cannabis BY KRISTIN HOUSER, FUTURISM DECEMBER 13, 2019 On Sunday, a SpaceX Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station hauling nearly three tons of cargo. SpaceX's next ISS resupply mission is scheduled for March 2020, and while that trip might not include any super-buff "mighty mice", it'll be packing something equally unique: cannabis.
On Tuesday, agri-tech company Front Range Biosciences announced plans to send cannabis to the ISS. No, it's not space-shipping weed to get astronauts high. Instead, it'll send plant cultures of hemp, the legal cannabis strain with low levels of compound THC. The cultures will remain in an ISS incubator for 30 days while BioServe Space Technologies (a Front Range project partner) monitors them remotely from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After their 30 days in space, the cannabis cultures go home to Earth so Front Range can see what effect, if any, microgravity and space radiation had on their gene expression. "There is science to support the theory that plants in space experience mutations," Front Range CEO Jonathan Vaught said in a release. "This is an opportunity to see whether those mutations hold up once brought back to earth and if there are new commercial applications."
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVuY2VhbGVydC5jb20vc3BhY2V4LWlzLWFib3V0LXRvLWRlbGl2ZXItYS13aG9sZS1idW5jaC1vZi1jYW5uYWJpcy10by10aGUtc3BhY2Utc3RhdGlvbtIBamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVuY2VhbGVydC5jb20vc3BhY2V4LWlzLWFib3V0LXRvLWRlbGl2ZXItYS13aG9sZS1idW5jaC1vZi1jYW5uYWJpcy10by10aGUtc3BhY2Utc3RhdGlvbi9hbXA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
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Morel Guy
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Re: Space weed [Re: Revok] 1
#26380931 - 12/14/19 08:58 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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30 days seems short
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ellomello
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they should let them go to seed for any interesting mutations.. but they are probably just researching general effects on plants.
i predict 'space seeds' will soon become a big thing.. when they become more available.. i'm inspired to be looking into that 
DNA can be mutated by exposure to gamma rays, xrays, and other space rays, that are normally blocked by Earth atmosphere. (especially developing seeds would be effected in un-shielded space)
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Quote:
Morel Guy said: 30 days seems short
We are in the midst of one of the deepest solar minimums ever recorded. Cosmic radiation (normally deflected by the sun's strong magnetic field) are at an all-time high. Outside the Earth's protective atmosphere the bombardment is even worse. It is the damage done to DNA by this high-power ionizing radiation that is thought to cause genetic mutation. I agree that 30 days seems short...but 30 days might just be enough.
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/12/13/the-ironic-behavior-of-cosmic-rays/
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Fractal420
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Soon, names like “Alien OG” will be much more literal than anyone could have imagined
But damn cannabis is “mutated” enough as it is compared to Sativa and Indica naturally growing 50 years ago. I don’t even mean potency, just size of flowers and the qualities of hybrids (sometimes something will look like an indica but hit you like a Sativa)
This is super interesting and I guess even if we get space CBD or better yet, THC, as long as things like 1991 Chemdawg seeds are preserved, we can at least go back to those genetics if need be
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Doc9151
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Martin weed "the next generation "
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