Remember, because in images that’ll likely be in textbooks in a hundred years as space-farmers read holographic magazines and sip holographic coffee at the Moon-Cafes where they go once their duties of tending their moon-crops are done for the morning are going to feature something quite heavily:
Caulk.
Not the verdant green of the first cotton plants to sprout on the moon.
But caulk.
Behold:
So of course there’s tons of goop.
And what appears to be a cascade of glue as well. And a plastic lattice.
They’re telling me there’s a cotton plant in here somewhere. Other pictures show a much better sprouting. See?
But mostly I’m seeing caulk. And other assorted goop.
I still think it’s neat they grew plants on the Moon. Albeit briefly.
There’s such a thing, however, as presentation, folks. Presentation. Maybe the lattice is important. As is the goop, probably.
But this thing couldn’t have been designed to be less goop-dependent? Or, if the goop was unavoidable, perhaps it could have been made, you know, a lot less goopy? Was this thing built with off-the-shelf components in a nation that’s become a manufacturing powerhouse? Nobody looked at this and thought, “You know, we really should spend that extra $100 on a custom lattice that fits the space. Maybe we could take some money out of the goop budget.”
Maybe the goop is some futuristic, nutrient-rich Moon Goop?
Only the farmers sitting in the Moon-Cafes know for sure.
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