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    • Tree gun

      Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 16:57 UTC

      Does anyone have the full text of this one? I am intrigued!

      New Scientist (DOI)

      Tree-gun to replant forests from the air

      A technology that fires projectiles containing tree saplings from a helicopter could rapidly replant devastated tropical forests.

      Last updated: Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 16:57 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 17:39 UTC
          Bryan Appleyard said:

          http://news.softpedia.com/news/Helicopters-To-Replant-Ruined-Forests-from-the-Air-103393.shtml

          Good story

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 17:49 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          Wow – I thought at first that this must be an early April Fool, but that is one cool invention!

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 19:12 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          How many of the trees will be needed to offset the C02 produced by the helicopter? :-)

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 03 Feb 2009 - 19:28 UTC
          Richard Wintle said:

          Those plant people. First they invent ways of transfecting plants by shooting them, then they scale up to whole forests. Fantastic.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 04 Feb 2009 - 09:07 UTC
          Raf Aerts said:

          Thanks Bryan for the link. It looks like a hybrid between a BLU-3 cluster bomb and mangrove pods then.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 05 Feb 2009 - 13:32 UTC
          Linda Lin said:

          Omg, that is just so awesome, and insane. :D

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