Comments on: Solar Bamboo Forests http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html Seeking Out New Homes On New Worlds Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:30:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian O'Neill http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html/comment-page-1#comment-205 Ian O'Neill Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:22:00 +0000 http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html#comment-205 This is awesome, Thanks Darnell for following up on my bamboo article :-) Great bit of research there.<br/><br/>I hope you are well!<br/><br/>Cheers, Ian This is awesome, Thanks Darnell for following up on my bamboo article :-) Great bit of research there.

I hope you are well!

Cheers, Ian

]]> By: L. Riofrio http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html/comment-page-1#comment-204 L. Riofrio Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:35:00 +0000 http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html#comment-204 Hi Darnell, and thanks for the links. Those of us who spent childhood time in the South Pacific are quite fond of bamboo. I also remember Captain Kirk making a cannon from a bamboo tube into and blasting the Gorn. It really has 1001 uses! Hi Darnell, and thanks for the links. Those of us who spent childhood time in the South Pacific are quite fond of bamboo. I also remember Captain Kirk making a cannon from a bamboo tube into and blasting the Gorn. It really has 1001 uses!

]]> By: Joel Craig Raupe http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html/comment-page-1#comment-203 Joel Craig Raupe Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:34:00 +0000 http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/06/solar-bamboo-forests.html#comment-203 Very interesting and also important. My first memories are of Djakarta on Java, where when I was three my father was working in that notorious nest of spooks - at the time - USAID. Before that, we lived for a brief time in Saigon (now Ho Chi Mhin City, of course) and aside from ubiquitous equatorial monsoons and lizards, there was bamboo.<br/><br/>Later, my father planted shoots to shield the open side of a driveway in suburban DC, where it thrived and through some particularly cold winters, at least through most of the remainder of the 1960's.<br/><br/>Their hardiness is thus a proven thing to me, as is their exotic beauty, and usefulness. <br/><br/>(How elso could the Professor have fashioned such Rube Goldberg Huts as he certainly designed for "the rest" of the castaways on Gilligan's Island?)<br/><br/>Those semi-buried poly-material shelters on the Moon we may soon be experimenting with could find many uses for this plant to cozy up an otherwise drab Regolete igloo with these marching across the wall, as pioneer plants of the Value-Added lunar "soil."<br/><br/>That they produce suce prodigious amounts of O2 is wonderful news.<br/><br/>Very good stuff, and thought provoking. What else could we need?<br/><br/>Thanks! Very interesting and also important. My first memories are of Djakarta on Java, where when I was three my father was working in that notorious nest of spooks – at the time – USAID. Before that, we lived for a brief time in Saigon (now Ho Chi Mhin City, of course) and aside from ubiquitous equatorial monsoons and lizards, there was bamboo.

Later, my father planted shoots to shield the open side of a driveway in suburban DC, where it thrived and through some particularly cold winters, at least through most of the remainder of the 1960’s.

Their hardiness is thus a proven thing to me, as is their exotic beauty, and usefulness.

(How elso could the Professor have fashioned such Rube Goldberg Huts as he certainly designed for “the rest” of the castaways on Gilligan’s Island?)

Those semi-buried poly-material shelters on the Moon we may soon be experimenting with could find many uses for this plant to cozy up an otherwise drab Regolete igloo with these marching across the wall, as pioneer plants of the Value-Added lunar “soil.”

That they produce suce prodigious amounts of O2 is wonderful news.

Very good stuff, and thought provoking. What else could we need?

Thanks!

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