Well, personally, I think anything to do with Mars is a
waste of time and effort until we first get a space station,
followed soon after by a lunar colony. To my view, it is
simply the ever inefficient NASA pumping up the gullible
public to get more than their $13 billion per year to
further waste on riding bottle rockets...
The movie, Mission to Mars was entertaining but it bugged me
to see NASA stamped all over it. They did show a greenhouse
covered by tarps and 'flapping in a breeze'..<g>...talk
about poetic licence!
I still think it will be a private or international
consortium that isn't NASA who will first make it to Mars on
a manned mission and setup colonies, but those companies
will have had the good sense to establish the space station
and lunar colonies FIRST so they have a very good
understanding of how to handle space travel and living.
I have long believed that manking originated on Mars, hosed
the planet or were hosed by something else, colonized here
and devolved. The reason is due to reading about studies
where humans were the only warm blooded mammals on this
planet that did not have a penile bone, not even a vestigial
penile bone, while all other warm blooded mammals did,
PLUS
when a human is placed in a chamber where they are exposed
only to artificial light, they will soon arrive at a daily
cycle of 25 hours, not 24, but 25....guess what a Martian
day is...you got it 25.1 hours.
Ergo, we did not evolve on this planet and FINALLY, one
movie, however fanciful brings that to attention...though
they leave out these two proofs and go off on the subjective
Mars face....pity, but it is entertainment...and a good
movie at that.
Anyway, that said....<g>...
Hmmm, you say EM radiation spectra....like the full spectrum
lights? You might check into the excellent work by Dr. John
Ott down in Florida...he used a lot of time lapse studies to
show how plants responded to different mixes of frequencies
by mixing different gases in fluorescent tubes that are
ionized to emit light.
http://www.ottbiolight.com/drott.htm
Dr. Ott often had trouble coaxing seedlings to grow, or
blossoms to form, as in the case of a stubborn pumpkin vine
which would produce only all male or all female flowers,
depending on what type of lighting the plant received, and
which would die before reaching maturation.
Intrigued by the possible connection between varying light
waves and plant growth patterns, the amateur scientist built
a plastic-walled greenhouse in his backyard, and there the
experiments continued, augmented by an impressive array of
photographic lights, set to turn on automatically for each
time-lapse frame.
Ott was so astounded by his findings over the next few years
that he carried his theories over into the animal world.
Impressed with his results, Loyola University awarded him an
honorary doctorate in science.
Encouraged by his continuing success Ott founded The
Environmental Health & Light Research Institute to
coordinate his ongoing studies into the way in which light
can, in the proper spectral balance, enhance the health of
plants and animals.
In time, Ott turned his attention towards monitoring the
beneficial effects of full spectrum lighting on certain
human physiological conditions. It was about this time that
Dr. Ott developed the first full spectrum fluorescent tube
which he called Vitalite and which was brought to market by
DuroTest Inc. based in his home town of Chicago, Illinois.
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http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/inventors/blott.htm
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http://www.lightforhealth.com/welcome.html
Under pink fluorescent light, the mice lived an average of
7.5 months,
Under cool white (standard office) fluorescents, the mice
lived 8.2 months,
Under full spectrum fluorescents with balanced, trace
ultraviolet, they lived 15.6 months,
and Under natural sunlight, they lived 16.1 months.
The study found that students under full spectrum light with
trace ultraviolet:
Learned faster
Tested higher
Grew faster
Had 1/3 fewer absences due to illness
Had 2/3rds fewer cavities than expected
A winter study of veterans in a Soldiers' Home in
Massachusetts compared calcium absorption under two lighting
systems.
Calcium absorption increased 15 per cent under full spectrum
light.
Calcium absorption decreased 25 per cent under standard
light.
An early study on the effect of ultraviolet radiation on
physical fitness was done at the University of Illinois. The
ten week controlled study compared men on a five item
muscular endurance test and on the Schneider cardiovascular
fitness index. The twenty-two subjects were from the lower
third of basic physical fitness classes.
The experimental group gained 19.2% on the Schneider
cardiovascular index compared to 1.5% for the control group.
The experimental group gained 15.4% in motor fitness
compared to the 11.8% for the control group.
The experimental group had ten colds compared to twenty for
the control group.
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http://www.keelynet.com/biology/light1.txt
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http://www.ddowning.demon.co.uk/daylight/01.html
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A particularly interesting article directly relevant to your
study;
http://www.ddowning.demon.co.uk/daylight/02.html
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Possibly the work of Ghadiali Dinshah which was primarily on
humans might be of use to you, especially if you can get the
2nd volume of his 3 volume spectrochrometry bookset...mine
was 'lifted' by a person I regrettably loaned it to.
Although was called a fraud in his day, he did have
remarkable results from very precise and pure light
wavelengths mixed to provide excellent results. Nowadays,
we call it 'Photo-Therapy'....a man before his time, like
many others.
http://wj.net/dinshah/
http://www.wrf.org/ghadiali.htm
One of the idiot posts calling Dinshah a quack;
http://www.mtn.org/quack/amquacks/ghadiali.htm
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Phototherapy for psoriasis at Tulane University...those
quacks..<g>..;
http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/departments/dermatology/Phototherapy.HTML
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Billie lights to cure jaundice...more quackery;
http://www.sleeptight.com/EncyMaster/P/phototherapy.html
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What is Phototherapy;
http://www.therapy.com/Phototherapy.htm
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Right off the bat, I can't think of any specific studies or
researchers who investigated light waves and plants though
the original experiments by George Lakhovsky that led to the
Muli-Wave Oscillator (MWO) were based on TUMORS in
geranimums that were healed with a coil of wire wrapped
around the plant with about 3 or so turns....
Lakhovsky claimed these coils intercepted and intensified EM
radiation to feed the electrical system of the plants and
thus heal the tumors....that's how he came up with the idea
of exposing the body to many frequencies
electrostatically...basically where the subject is placed
between two antennas so they absorb all the freqs
ionically....
Since the original email was simply a URL for the patent,
you might try to contact the inventor direct and see what
kind of information he can provide with regard to that
acceleration of plant growth. I tried to get his address
and such from the patent but my computer says the patent
server was not responding...hmmm...tried with Netscape and
Explorer, but no dice...so you'll have to hunt that down for
yourself..
Good luck - perhaps you'll find us on Mars, long before
NASA...back home again..<g>..
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lanim@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm a undergraduate student developing a Mars simulation project. I'm looking
> at how the EM spectrum would effect photosynthesis in an atmospheric
> composition simular to that of Mars. I'm interested in how plant growth was
> accelerated using this hyper-light system. First I will clarify my
> project...My simulation is based on a future Mars station greenhouse. The
> greenhouse would allow for has much natural light as possible to allow energy
> resources to be used for other Mars station functions. Plants in the
> greenhouse would grow under the same conditions here on earth, the difference
> would be the EM spectrum (radiation) penetrating through the martian
> atmosphere (different composition) thus possibly effecting photosynthesis.
> NASA is currently proposing to build a chamber that can test these effects.
>
> Jerry Decker wrote:
> That you could chop a second into 1000 slices and each of those "temporal
> slices" contains a complete other universe with different timelines.
>
> 1.) Am I correct in using the 1000 slices, that the energy increase would be
> doubled if you can penetrate one of those slices...using that energy for the
> increase? If this is true, doubling the amount of UV radiation exposure to
> plants would have some serious physioloical consequences.
>
> 2.) Is there a web page were I can go to to see the data on accelerated plant
> growth concerning this hyper-light project.
>
> Lani Mucha
> Austin, TX
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