Comments on: China’s Monster Big Space-Bred Pumpkin

By: natasha

natasha — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:14:11 +0000

Umm… it is tiny. Not new worthy. Every year where I live, they have contests where a pumpkin is hollowed out and rowed in a lake by a full grown man.

By: Heather BT

Heather BT — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:06:54 +0000

This is a larger than average sized pumpkin, but by no means huge even in China where halloween is not a part of the culture. I think it should be noted that space bred does not mean space grown. They took seeds up and had them exposed to the radiation in space.
What is more interesting is the color and the relative lack of vertical ribbing compared to most pumpkins.

By: Casual Adventurer

Casual Adventurer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:45:13 +0000

Weird Asian News……. Ahh that explains it….. I thought I’d gone to CNN…….. No come on, the weirder it is the more likely it is to be true…….

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:22:10 +0000

I would be interested to find out how they grew it in space and then got it down to earth safely. I noted that the pumpkin is much rounder that terrestrial pumpkins, perhaps due to lack of gravity?

Note to Grumpy naysayers, have you ever seen a Chinese Pumpkin? Perhaps before you start crabbing, find out what the normal size that a Chinese pumpkin grows and *then* complain about what size space grown veggies should be.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:52:03 +0000

Well since Xinhua, the source, is Chinese national news agency…

It kinda is national news.