[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

China making plans for VEGIE gardens on mars


http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/int...n-mars/1055980

I wonder whether, in years to come, the Chinese will use their hothouse vege garden on Olympus Mons as the basis for territorial claims - instead of gunboats, we will have broccoli diplomacy.

I recently re-read the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson after which the idea doesn't see all that remote.

Peter