Space seeds!

"For decades scientists have been sending seeds to space. China has been using space radiation to induce genetic mutation in crops since the 1980s, exposing seeds to cosmic radiation via satellites and high-altitude balloons, which reportedly facilitated the production of giant sweet peppers and improvements in wheat and rice."


"Space seed breeding uses cosmic radiation to mutate the genes of seeds sent into space, in order to create new species for greater variety."

So what would be better?

Make my own space seed pod balloons with GPS tracking, and keep sending the same seeds to "space".. maybe 100 times.. to absorb enough cosmic radiation?


Or, construct a mini particle accelerator\muon generator, and expose them to it in some kind of vacuum cloud chamber with microgravity?



What would you name your genetically mutated space seed strain?

sounds cool and all but i would not risk smoking gmo s

m1100 said:

sounds cool and all but i would not risk smoking gmo s

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How do you know all the current strains aren't genetically modified as is? I mean, just look at cannabis in the 60s and 70s. Look at the shwag high times calender photo shoots.

Now, look again but in the 80's to 90's. How the heck did it go from seedy\leafy average landrace strains to super dense chronic 20+ percent THC in less than ten years, which is ironically the same time China and other countries modified virtually half the crops in the world via "space" radiation?

Are you telling me they didn't sneak a few illegal marijuana seeds into space, or into the hadron collider or whatever secret underground gizmo they uses to generate the cosmic rays? Why aren't kids taught in school that virtually all the wheat or rice (and 2000+ other crops) they eat was modified in "space" during the 80s?

haha i was just joking. imo the selection could have done the trick, but who knows... maybe a bit of crispr here and there? ;p