Chapter 2790 Do You Want a Spaceship?

In "The Martian", Matt Damon was left on Mars. He found a bag of potatoes in the base, and then transformed part of the base into a greenhouse suitable for potato growth, and covered it with Martian soil and feces. The mixed soil is used to grow potatoes, so that more potatoes can be grown, so that they can last longer.

Of course, this plan seems very clever. Potatoes are a fast-growing plant, and its tubers contain a lot of starch, which can provide people with sufficient energy, but it is a bit unrealistic if it is carefully verified.

Matt Damon found the remaining rocket fuel in the base, which can produce hydrogen through the chemical reaction of the fuel, and then ignite the hydrogen to make the hydrogen and oxygen react, and it can become water. With water and soil, it seems that potatoes can be grown Yes, but the soil on Mars is very dry, and you need a lot of water to grow potatoes here.

The water produced by chemical fuels alone is far from enough to grow so many potatoes, not to mention that water is also a necessary material for human survival. Coupled with Matt Damon's consumption, the gap is even greater.

Moreover, it is also wrong for him to directly use manure as fertilizer. The use of manure in rural areas has to go through the process of composting and fermentation. Putting manure and some garbage together, under the action of microorganisms, after a period of fermentation, it can be sprinkled into the field. Here, this process is called decomposing, and direct application of manure will burn the seeds.

Moreover, there are not so many microorganisms on Mars that can carry out the decomposition reaction. Even if the standard composting process is followed, there is no way to convert these manures into fertilizers that can provide nutrients to plants.

Of course, this is a movie and not a documentary after all, so you don’t have to be so careful, otherwise Matt Damon will have to starve to death on Mars, but Shen Long himself wants to grow potatoes on Mars, so he has to make all preparations .

Fortunately, he was more prepared than Matt Damon. After landing on the ground of Mars, he found a relatively flat piece of land, built a greenhouse, and then injected air into it, took out a hoe to turn over the ground, and then used a duo Doraemon's remote-controlled Nimbus waters, fertilizes, and finally buryes the potato seeds.

These are not ordinary potato seeds, but fast-growing potato seeds of the 22nd century. As soon as the seeds are buried, green tender shoots pop up, climbing and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then blooming white flowers Xiaohua, potatoes are sexually reproducing plants, so Shen Long found Doraemon's mechanical bees to help pollinate these flowers.

After pollination, these small white flowers slowly wither, and grow green fruits the size of little thumbs. These things are cut like tomatoes. These are actually the fruits of potatoes. The seeds inside are actually able to The reproductive efficiency of potatoes is not high, so people usually use potato tubers for asexual reproduction.

However, in some scientific research institutions, potatoes are still used for breeding to complete some experiments that cannot be done through asexual reproduction of tubers. When Shen Long was at Xiaolei's house, he had seen it at the Seed Research Institute.

Seeing that these fruits were ripe, Shen Long knew that the potatoes buried in the ground could also be dug out and eaten. He took out the hoe and dug a few times, and large pieces of potatoes were dug out.

Wash and peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces, then chop the prepared chicken legs and wings into pieces, break the green peppers into pieces, cut the onions into pieces, break the red peppers into pieces, slice the ginger, slice the garlic, and cut the dried red peppers into sections.

Then add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, put the pot in cold water, and blanch the chicken first; then pour oil into the pot, add star anise, Chinese prickly ash, dried chili, fragrant leaves, garlic, and ginger and stir-fry until the aroma is released. Pour in the Pixian bean paste and stir-fry until the red oil comes out. Put the chicken pieces into the pot and stir fry evenly.

Add rock sugar and light soy sauce and stir-fry until it is colored, pour beer and a bowl of water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for a quarter of an hour, then add potatoes and simmer for another quarter of an hour.

Finally, stir-fry the green peppers, red peppers, and onions evenly, and collect the juice over high heat. A Northwest characteristic large plate chicken is ready. The huge plate is placed on the table, and Shen Long and Alia start eating facing the beautiful scenery of Mars. Needless to say, the scenery on Mars is really similar to some desert areas in the northwest, except that it is more barren here, and there is no trace of plants at all.

First pick up a piece of potato, put it in your mouth and bite it lightly. This kind of potato is soft and glutinous, it can be said to melt in your mouth, and the inside is full of soup, this taste is simply amazing!

"Martian potatoes are delicious when made into a large plate of chicken! I think they are also good for stewing ribs and braised pork!" After eating, Shen Long stroked his stomach comfortably. This kind of soft and waxy potato is not suitable for eating. It is not crispy enough to fry shredded potatoes, but it is perfect for stewing all kinds of meat. The taste of the soup and the original aroma of potatoes are not enough.

"It seems that we can set up a farm on Mars in the future. Since we can grow potatoes, it seems that other things can also be used to grow!" The ginseng fruit trees are also planted here. I don’t know if the aura on Mars is more abundant than that on the earth. The ginseng fruit grown here may be more effective.

Shen Long is not worried about being discovered by others. The greenhouse can be made of stealth materials, so that the telescope on the earth cannot see it, and then try to avoid the detection route of human probes in the choice of address. Mars is so big that humans With so few detectors launched, it would be too simple to hide a few acres of planting greenhouses.

Shen Long asked Bai Ze to check the Mars exploration plans of human countries in recent years, combined with the geology and landforms of Mars, selected the location, began to sow various seeds, and then used time and space to ripen them, and waited for a rest. When it was time, the greenhouse was already lush green, and there were thriving plant seedlings everywhere.

Well, in the future, you don’t need to go out to buy vegetables, you can just harvest them in the Mars plantation. It is absolutely natural and pollution-free, Shen Long thought happily.

Back at the space station, he received a reminder from Bai Ze that it was time to reply to Academician Lu's emails today!

I have been wandering around the solar system these days, and even forgot the time on Earth, but it doesn't matter, the communication capability of this space station is enough to meet Shen Long's needs, and they can also receive emails written here.

As usual, Shen Long answered their questions first, and then pointed out the next research direction for them. When the email was ready to be sent, Shen Long thought about it and added, "I have a spaceship here. or?"