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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by ISL on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:28PM (#31297736)
It's dropping dirt-bullets out of the sky with enough momentum to penetrate dirt -- probably enough to penetrate most flesh.

Air-dropping pinecones and seeds, however, might be sufficient (and very fast). Cones and seeds are already designed to fall at/near terminal velocity and later on yield a tree.

It'd definitely make me smile to see a Hercules flying across recently-logged terrain or historically-deforested offloading tons of seeds that drift to the ground to start a new life.

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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by Nextgrid on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:02PM (#31299454)
True - my point wasn’t to imply that you’ll have no animal casualties at all, but that unless you’re literally dropping one shell per square meter, the casualty rate would be acceptable.
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