Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret 254
beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boatloads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: '[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used to transform future colonies on Mars. In other words, rather than trying to improve an environment by force, the best approach might be to work with life to help it "find its own way."'"
Nice idea but it won't work (Score:4, Funny)
The Royal Navy doesn't have any space ships.
Re:Mars? (Score:4, Funny)
The solution is easy. Just bring a few thousand music CDs [wikipedia.org].
Units (Score:5, Funny)
How many boat loads in a fuckton?
Re:Units (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"They were quite successful."???? (Score:2, Funny)
Well, you answered it yourself:
That's clearly success!
Re:"cloud forest " (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's where Lando Calrissian goes camping.
Duh!
Re:Interesting tool (Score:4, Funny)
Fair question. How do you know they're suffering? Have YOU spoken to them?
Re:Interesting tool (Score:3, Funny)
Someone should write a book about a small Mars colony that toughs it out for 500 years, and then recolonizes the Earth after a super asteroid. Who knows what they would find?
Zombies. You've just written the next big first-person shooter.