Thursday, February 8, 2007

Martian wine

Here's an article about using a global warming effect to terraform Mars, creating an earthlike atmosphere. It goes further, however, in speculating what agriculture on Mars would be like. What would a Martian wine be like, for example? Seeing as how a wine's character depends so much on the land where it was cultivated, wines of the future would have a whole different complexity coming from Martian soil. Wine is so culturally-based that this is an interesting point to contemplate. As the article nicely states it, "the next fashionable terroir might, quite literally, be out of this world."

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