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I feel like we should kill 2 birds with one stone: Bats and bat guano. Guano used to be mined for gunpowder, to the point where the US annexed a few islands af
by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like we should kill 2 birds with one stone: Bats and bat guano.
Guano used to be mined for gunpowder, to the point where the US annexed a few islands after the Guano Islands Act of 1856. If bat guano is usable as fertilizer, we could design some basic guano-collecting bat shelters that act like an automatic litterbox for cats.
The bats get a home, and the equivalent of a flush-toilet, while we get bats, less bugs, and plenty of batshit ideas.
- chrisgp 5y ago"...and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore"
- bombcar 5y agoThe quite reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
- jbboehr 5y agoNot a coincidence: > The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) established the Plowshare Program in June 1957 to explore the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The program took its name from the Bible (Isaiah 2:4), "they will beat their swords into plowshares." https://st.llnl.gov/news/look-back/plowshare-program https://st.llnl.gov/news/look-back/plowshare-program Strangely, Wikipedia makes no mention of the source of the name.