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Scientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. (dailygalaxy.com)

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago

Is that Moonsanto’s patented corn that is genetically modified to grow in a vacuum? Maybe in the future, all the HFCS, hydrogenated soybean oil, etc. will be produced on the Moon, leaving Earth’s land for more suitable purposes like strip mining coal and data centers that manufacture AI slop.