Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Strangest headline of the week

"Space Wheat Could Feed Astronauts on Mars."
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4 comments:

tommy said...

Think they're implying that astronauts are already there?

July 22, 2009 9:46 AM
Orgone Gnosis said...

When it comes to terraforming, HEY....it'll make up for the sins of the fathers, as we've been so darn busy strip-mining earth and using fossil fuels (not a global warming argument, its just toxic, and wasteful)

So why wheat and not any other plants that outpace and can out-produce wheat...

Well wheat makes a nice bundle...
but don't forget the scythe.

July 22, 2009 10:39 AM
Liza Ursu said...

When I read the headline, I thought of the ending of Knowing when "Adam & Eve" were running through a wheat field towards the tree of life (somewhere other than earth). Isn't wheat significant to freemasons, and to christ-consciousness?

July 22, 2009 2:12 PM
SoapFan said...

Chris,

I couldn't help but think of the OST episode "The Trouble With Tribbles". The enterprise was transporting a supply of "poisoned" grain called quadro-triticale. When I first saw the episode years ago and looked up triticale, I was surprised to learn that it was a real grain -wheat!

But now, years later, there are way more various web definitions of triticale today:

-Triticale (× Triticosecale) is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century

-a grain crop, a hybrid of wheat and rye, that gives a high yield;

-A nutritious hybrid of wheat and rye which contains more protein and less gluten than wheat. Normally found in health food stores

-is a combination of wheat and rye. It has a much higher protein content and better balance of essential amino acids than either wheat or rye

- (but yet)A modern inter-generic hybrid between wheat and rye. It has not proved particularly successful as the uses for its grain are limited.

July 22, 2009 6:34 PM

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