Apollo: How good is human feces as a fertilizer relative to like, cow coop? Apollo: Botanist in martian movie was supposed to be all up in how that's supposed to work. apollo: I should have backed up and given the botanist the day and the sun soposo. He says Sogerson wasn't representative of poop because it was based on just eating potatoes.
Can you actually grow potatoes on Mars? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio explore how to grow plants in space and whether we can farm on the Moon and Mars with space biologists Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl.
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