• macniel
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    1715 days ago

    How do you save a forest with flower pods though?

    • @[email protected]
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      1515 days ago

      Some seeds need physical or chemical stress to actually germinate. You need rough them up with acid or fire or just sandpaper.

      I still don’t think this is a brilliant way to spread seeds. But there are some seeds it wouldn’t destroy.

    • DaGeek247
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      3215 days ago

      These would have to be very low power in order to avoid that, yeah. Thankfully, shotguns are incredibly forgiving of that sort of thing if you use a pump action one.

      • @[email protected]
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        1715 days ago

        Still doesn’t really work. Lots of tree planting involves shoving a sapling in the ground and walking away with no followup. That results in a bunch of dead saplings. Shotgun seeds would probably do the same.

        • @[email protected]
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          2015 days ago

          I mean… Because you just uprooted a sapling, and put the damaged baby tree in the ground, away from parents and with an unfamiliar mycelial network, and hoped it would survive with zero manual intervention

          There’s a whole ecosystem underground with so much going on we’ve barely begun to understand

          • SkaveRat
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            2015 days ago

            if you see a baby sapling, don’t pick it up and transplant it somewhere else. its momma tree is probably around somewhere and waits for you to walk away

      • @[email protected]
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        3715 days ago

        Alternatively, you could fire them at an upward angle, letting the seeds scatter widely and fall to the ground in a parabolic arc. Horticultural artillery, as it were.

        • @[email protected]
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          1515 days ago

          Alternatively alternatively, you could somehow propel them with those things attached to your body just below the wrist in almost any direction

          • swab148
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            2315 days ago

            Yeah, the shotgun shells were a bad approach, we should have been using grenades!

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              314 days ago

              They make airsoft grenades that yeet pellets in every direction. Much less force than a shotgun shell as well. We solved it!

        • Natanael
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          514 days ago

          The initial explosion sending them off is worse than the collision (especially with soil)

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    1415 days ago

    I feel like this would not work very well in practice because of the heat, pressure, and impact, but it would probably still be kinda fun.

    They do make drones that shoot saplings into the ground that actually do work though, they’re cool as hell.

  • IninewCrow
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    815 days ago

    Dick Cheney saving the trees … by planting them in your face

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      1015 days ago

      lol my head kinda went there too. I’m picturing some crusty old sergeant giving a motivational speech to his troops just before jumping out of a plane or some shit and capping it all of with slapping a green magazine with a sunflower logo on it into an assault rifle, “NOW LET’S GO PLANT SOME GOD DAMNED TREES!”

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    This is just the more direct action version of the ukranians handing out sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers

  • @[email protected]
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    615 days ago

    Am I super high or are people eating the onion. We get that it’s supposed to be an artistic statement right?