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That's an interesting thought. It immediately made me think of some fast moving contraption that buried seeds into the ground. Obvious difficulties would be nav

by ludamad 11y ago

That's an interesting thought. It immediately made me think of some fast moving contraption that buried seeds into the ground. Obvious difficulties would be navigating, and being small while being able to force something into the ground.

aacook 11y ago
There are people who get paid to manually plant trees. They're called Tree planters. Seeds seem more scalable but the industry appears to use saplings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs Maybe a drone could complete the two actions instead. 1. Jam rod thing into ground, pull it out, dump dirt 2. Stuff in tree A guy on Reddit claimed to have planted 1.25mm trees this way: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_125_million_trees_across_canada_in https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_12... Young trees need water until they're established, so I wonder how many little trees actually survive.
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  You can wrap their bases with a porous bag of hydrated gel--like a yolk sac for saplings. Logically, it would be best to use industrial processes to factory-assemble a package that results in the lowest cost per established new tree when it is left in the wild with no further maintenance. Existing tree seeds are cheap and stupid, and limited by the state or the art in tree-seed technology, which is essentially to coax an animal into eating a fruit and crapping out the seed elsewhere in a nice, fertile pile of dung. Humans can do better, by sprouting the seeds in a controlled, indoor facility, culling any unsuitable saplings, and granting the sapling additional resources that the parent trees could not provide before planting it in a location distant from the parents that is already known to be suitable for the adult tree. ~Alternately, leave Robo on tree-planting detail, and skip ahead 1000 years in the Epoch to pick him up.~
grogenaut 11y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not. The answer is a f'n bird.
- ludamad 11y ago
  Creating tons of birds is not a solution.

by ludamad 11y ago

aacook 11y ago

There are people who get paid to manually plant trees. They're called Tree planters. Seeds seem more scalable but the industry appears to use saplings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs Maybe a drone could complete the two actions instead. 1. Jam rod thing into ground, pull it out, dump dirt 2. Stuff in tree A guy on Reddit claimed to have planted 1.25mm trees this way: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_125_million_trees_across_canada_in https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_12... Young trees need water until they're established, so I wonder how many little trees actually survive.

logfromblammo 11y ago
You can wrap their bases with a porous bag of hydrated gel--like a yolk sac for saplings. Logically, it would be best to use industrial processes to factory-assemble a package that results in the lowest cost per established new tree when it is left in the wild with no further maintenance. Existing tree seeds are cheap and stupid, and limited by the state or the art in tree-seed technology, which is essentially to coax an animal into eating a fruit and crapping out the seed elsewhere in a nice, fertile pile of dung. Humans can do better, by sprouting the seeds in a controlled, indoor facility, culling any unsuitable saplings, and granting the sapling additional resources that the parent trees could not provide before planting it in a location distant from the parents that is already known to be suitable for the adult tree. ~Alternately, leave Robo on tree-planting detail, and skip ahead 1000 years in the Epoch to pick him up.~

grogenaut 11y ago

I can't tell if you're joking or not. The answer is a f'n bird.

ludamad 11y ago
Creating tons of birds is not a solution.