These would have to be very low power in order to avoid that, yeah. Thankfully, shotguns are incredibly forgiving of that sort of thing if you use a pump action one.
Alternatively, you could fire them at an upward angle, letting the seeds scatter widely and fall to the ground in a parabolic arc. Horticultural artillery, as it were.
Still doesn't really work. Lots of tree planting involves shoving a sapling in the ground and walking away with no followup. That results in a bunch of dead saplings. Shotgun seeds would probably do the same.
I mean... Because you just uprooted a sapling, and put the damaged baby tree in the ground, away from parents and with an unfamiliar mycelial network, and hoped it would survive with zero manual intervention
There's a whole ecosystem underground with so much going on we've barely begun to understand
if you see a baby sapling, don't pick it up and transplant it somewhere else. its momma tree is probably around somewhere and waits for you to walk away
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I can't think of a better way to just obliterate seeds.
These would have to be very low power in order to avoid that, yeah. Thankfully, shotguns are incredibly forgiving of that sort of thing if you use a pump action one.
Alternatively, you could fire them at an upward angle, letting the seeds scatter widely and fall to the ground in a parabolic arc. Horticultural artillery, as it were.
Alternatively alternatively, you could somehow propel them with those things attached to your body just below the wrist in almost any direction
Yeah, the shotgun shells were a bad approach, we should have been using grenades!
They make airsoft grenades that yeet pellets in every direction. Much less force than a shotgun shell as well. We solved it!
The initial explosion sending them off is worse than the collision (especially with soil)
Still doesn't really work. Lots of tree planting involves shoving a sapling in the ground and walking away with no followup. That results in a bunch of dead saplings. Shotgun seeds would probably do the same.
I mean... Because you just uprooted a sapling, and put the damaged baby tree in the ground, away from parents and with an unfamiliar mycelial network, and hoped it would survive with zero manual intervention
There's a whole ecosystem underground with so much going on we've barely begun to understand
if you see a baby sapling, don't pick it up and transplant it somewhere else. its momma tree is probably around somewhere and waits for you to walk away
Transplanting and sowing are entirely different things.
I'd think these would be airsoft or something similar
Some seeds need physical or chemical stress to actually germinate. You need rough them up with acid or fire or just sandpaper.
I still don't think this is a brilliant way to spread seeds. But there are some seeds it wouldn't destroy.
In a mob boss voice, "Vinnie, take him out to the garden to smell the flowers"
How do you save a forest with flower pods though?
You would need a pinecone bazooka or something.
I’m more in favor of orbital nurseries and continental bombardment.
Just spruce it from orbit. Only way to
be savesave the planetAll gymnosperms matter! Also nitrogen fixers. Some saprophytic thingys too. We don’t need more coal deposits.
start with bamboo at Mar-a-Lago
Rods from god except they're fully grown trees.
Teams of orbit-based Tactical Assault Biologists plotting optimal dispersal patterns…
I feel like this would not work very well in practice because of the heat, pressure, and impact, but it would probably still be kinda fun.
They do make drones that shoot saplings into the ground that actually do work though, they're cool as hell.
Came here to say this. Maybe it would work if you wrapped the seeds in a layer of clay for protection.
A smaller amount of powder and some heat resistant wadding might also work.
Dick Cheney saving the trees .... by planting them in your face
Decent fertilizer...
Grim Fandango is a classic
https://youtu.be/Y25BR42lyBo
Am I super high or are people eating the onion. We get that it's supposed to be an artistic statement right?
(Door gunner shooting belt fed seeds out of helicopter)
Get some! Get some!
This is just the more direct action version of the ukranians handing out sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers
Probably, but broadcast is way more effective
"I'm going to plant flowers into you" is kind of an intimidating threat now.
Garden's haunted
Whatever it take to arm the community garden
Loading the shells took a while
https://archive.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/kennedy-to-kent-state/2011-135.html
Will it still kill a deer?
Or knock a can off a fence?