Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day
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Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day
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Re: Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day
#2The original story is from 1999. It doesn't seem to have worked out.
Re: Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day
#3This is such a great idea. Let's just hope no one on the ground gets hurt!!
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#5Why did you change the title from "could drop" to "to drop"?
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#6A trained up tree planter can do between 1500 and 3000 trees a day, day in day out depending on the terrain. My friend did this for her summer and filled me with stories that I was too drunk to remember properly. Here's an reddit iama on the topic.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d8a0t/iama_former_tree...
Re: Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day
#7The original story is from 1999. It doesn't seem to have worked out.
Yeah, seems like a slow-news-day sort of article.
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#8I would like to see pictures or schematics of these tree bombs. it says they are metal cones, but that the metal is designed to rot away. i'd think we could make a corn based plastic that has fertilizer in it or something now, which would disintegrate and not leave traces of metal everywhere. right?
I think if this had a better name like "Aerial Seeding" rather than tree-bombing, it would stand a better chance of getting off the ground (pun intended). Someone should call up lockheed and see what happened to this 11 year old plan.
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#9Why did you change the title from "could drop" to "to drop"?
The original article had 'to drop' when I posted... I changed nothing except to erase the treehugger tag stuff. If any moderators read this, please change the title to 'could drop'.
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#10Hmm, I wasn't under the impression that there was large areas of land in need of tree-planting. I though most de-forestation was to free the land for agriculture (in which case you'd probably need to mix the trees with land mines if they are to have any chance of actually growing)..