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dystopian... is there something wrong with actual insects keeping their day jobs?
by josefritzishere 2y ago
dystopian... is there something wrong with actual insects keeping their day jobs?
- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoWhat about indoor vertical farming? Or disease killing pollinators? Or climate change doing the same?
- novosel 2y ago"The envisioned indoor farm would grow fruits and vegetables inside a multilevel warehouse, maximizing yield per acre while minimizing environmental impacts through a controlled, closed-loop system."
- sdwr 2y agoInsects don't want to work anymore! Lazy bastards keep complaining about pollution and climate change and pesticides
- rixthefox 2y agoYeah, all our pollution and climate change is disrupting ecosystems. Our only way to ensure survival on and off the planet is to mimic their actions (in this case pollination) to ensure that if we do manage to push more and more species to extinction we have options for being able to continue after they are gone.
- getwiththeprog 2y agoOr we could plant some bushes, trees and wildflower meadows inbetween fields?
- hulitu 2y agoWith no economic value ? Definitely no. /s
- doctoboggan 2y agoIf you ever hear new robot + useful task always assume it's a cover story for weapons delivery. Why do you think so many new robots are advertised as great for "search and rescue after a disaster"? Its one config file away from search and kill in a war zone.
- bilbo0s 2y agoInsect-bots are the penultimate search and kill. Also the penultimate mass kill. The ultimate would have to be nanobots if we can ever get to reliable swarms of them. But it’s not the weapons that interest me so much as what people come up with as countermeasures. It’ll be fascinating to watch the next few years.
- polishdude20 2y agoImma invest in fly swatters
- getwiththeprog 2y agoEconomics scares me more.
- mainecoder 2y agoThis robotic pollinator can barely even fly for 45 sec, they cannot scale it sufficiently they can just say minidrone but to even think about using it as an actual pollinator and the economics making sense is at the present far far away.
- mystified5016 2y agoExtinction, generally. I'd rather have combat insects we can turn into pollinators once the ecosystem collapses than have nothing at all.
- airstrike 2y agoOne step closer to the Matrix
- thesuitonym 2y agoI think I'd rather just have nothing at all.
- nomel 2y agoIf you travel and see how people live in very large cities, especially in Asian countries, you'll find that interacting with any sort of nature is already optional for many people. These people won't notice. The indiscriminate pesticides will continue to flow, killing the natural bee/insect populations, with a slow transition to artificial pollination being an efficiency quirk of modern farming.
- Neonlicht 2y agoMy mother used to work in social care for underprivileged city kids and she told me a story once where they took the kids to a farm. They were astonished that milk came from a cow. I basically have to fly to the Canary Islands to see starlight.
- nilamo 2y agoMaybe beekeeping is hard on Mars, so we need a new way to polinate the food supply?
- tap-snap-or-nap 2y agoInsects are now free to do art...with subscription ai pushed by the big giant tech.
- hulitu 2y agoYes. They are being exterminated. The earthworms have almost dissapeared. The ants seem to still be able to survive though.