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minus-squareGodort@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up39·edit-29 days agoI was listening to a podcast the other day that was talking about this. Theoretically, a pumpkin could grow to be about 20,000 pounds before it couldn’t exist under its own gravity. Edit: This is the podcast if anyone is curious
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·9 days agoso space pumpkins are in our future
minus-squareAnchorxiety@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 days agoThe ISS will be replaced by the ISP International Space Pumpkin
minus-squaredecolo@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoWe must immediately redirect all science efforts to growing the Space Pumpkin Replacement Planet. And then put elon and Lil Bezzy and the rest inside it after it’s big enough out there.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 days agodoes this include spumpkins (space-pumpkins) or does it presume earth standard gravity? how much of a grant do you think i could get for growing giant space pumpkins?
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoThis is the first real reason I’ve ever heard to colonize the moon.
minus-squarerapchee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agogood news! you could do this on a near-earth space station too!
minus-squareOlgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoSo let’s grow a +20,000 pound pumpkin in orbit. We’ll splice it will immortal jellyfish genes, and make it our new god that circles us in the heavens.
I was listening to a podcast the other day that was talking about this.
Theoretically, a pumpkin could grow to be about 20,000 pounds before it couldn’t exist under its own gravity.
Edit: This is the podcast if anyone is curious
so space pumpkins are in our future
The ISS will be replaced by the ISP International Space Pumpkin
We must immediately redirect all science efforts to growing the Space Pumpkin Replacement Planet.
And then put elon and Lil Bezzy and the rest inside it after it’s big enough out there.
does this include spumpkins (space-pumpkins) or does it presume earth standard gravity?
how much of a grant do you think i could get for growing giant space pumpkins?
This is the first real reason I’ve ever heard to colonize the moon.
good news! you could do this on a near-earth space station too!
So let’s grow a +20,000 pound pumpkin in orbit. We’ll splice it will immortal jellyfish genes, and make it our new god that circles us in the heavens.