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The pod contain a germinated seed, aka a baby tree, presumably a lot more fragile than a seed. The whole point of the invention is that they get more trees that

• Someone 12y ago
  No, the claim is not that they get more trees; it is that they get them cheaper. I did not claim dropping pods at random would give the same success rate; the thing I question is whether the investment needed to use these drones is more effective than, say, buying five times the number of pods and throwing them out of a plane (or even deploying them with a modified minefield thrower.) Also, looking at the picture at http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10160598.ece/alternates/w460/3044235-inline-i-1-this-drone-startup-has-an-ambitious-crazy-plan-to-plant-one-billion-trees-a-year.jpg http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10160598.ece/al..., those germinated seeds aren't large. In my (limited) experience handling such things, they are more fragile than seeds, but dropping them is just fine. For the rightmost two ones, it would help to plant them right side up, but you aren't going to do that dropping it from a drone, either (hm, looking at it, that picture probably isn't worth much as evidence; there's no way you are going to have a relatively small pod burrow into the ground like that from any height, let alone a few meters)