Article source: Plant Factory Alliance

In the previous movie “The Wandering Earth”, the sun is rapidly aging, the temperature of the earth’s surface is extremely low, and everything is withered. Humans can only live in dungeons 5Km from the surface.

There is no sunlight. Land is limited. How do plants grow?

In many science fiction films, we can see plant factories appearing in them.

Movie-‘The Wandering Earth’

Movie-‘Space Traveler’

The film tells the story of 5000 space passengers taking the Avalon spacecraft to another planet to start a new life. Unexpectedly, the spacecraft encounters an accident on the way, and the passengers accidentally wake up early from the frozen sleep. The protagonist finds that he may have to spend 89 years alone on this huge ship. As a result, he wakes up a female passenger Aurora, and they have a spark of love during their relationship.

With the background of space, the film actually tells a love story about how to survive in the extremely long and boring space life. In the end, the film presents us such a lively picture.

Plants can also grow in space, as long as suitable environment can be provided artificially.

Movie-‘The Martian’

In addition, there is the most impressive “The Martian” in which the male protagonist is planting potatoes on Mars.

Image soucrce：Giles Keyte/20th Century Fox

Bruce Bagby, a botanist at NASA, said that it is feasible to grow potatoes and even a few other plants on Mars, and he has indeed planted potatoes in the laboratory.

Movie-‘Sunshine’

“Sunshine” is a space disaster science fiction film released by Fox Searchlight on April 5, 2007. The film tells the story of a rescue team composed of eight scientists and astronauts rekindling the dying sun to save the earth.

In the film, the role played by actor Michelle Yeoh, Kolasan, is a botanist who takes care of the botanical garden in the spacecraft, grows vegetables and fruits to provide nutrition for the crew, and is also responsible for oxygen supply and oxygen detection.

Movie-‘Mars’

“Mars” is a sci-fi documentary filmed by National Geographic. In the film, because the base was hit by a Martian sandstorm, the wheat that was taken care of by the botanist Dr. Paul died of insufficient electricity.

As a new mode of production, plant factory is considered to be an important way to solve the problems of population, resources and environment in the 21st century. It can even realize crop production in desert, Gobi, island, water surface, building and other non arable land. This is also an important means to achieve food self-sufficiency in the future space engineering and the exploration of the moon and other planets.