Careful. Muskrat might read this and think it’s a good idea to try to waste loads of CO2 emissions manufacturing synthetic trees
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And they're spread by forgetful squirrels.
I heard that every five years oak trees produce WAY more acorns so that even if squirrels get them all every year, the fifth year they won't be able to.
Not to make this sound less cool but you forgot to mention the speed.
That being said, there are some ridiculously fast growing plants on this planet.
You can make a thin layer of anything on anything, not impressive
farfetched
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Fixed, thanks
I see God in it all. I don't believe all these "hi-tech features" would ever come about with random mutations causing an advantage from time to time. It's just too awesome imo. Oxygen, beauty, exuberant life, building materials... Water is equally miraculous imo. There's so much more!
I am simply "representing" my POV. I already know lots of people don't like anything religious, but if atheists can openly be themselves, doesn't everybody else have the same right? So, that's all this is. Just like Richard Dawkins and Keanu Reeves, I'm not interested in debate. I'm just representing.
Cells are basically the self replicating nanobots that sci fi sometimes has as an example of highly advanced technology, but naturally occurring.
R&D life cycle... hundreds of millions of years.
The manufacturer takes a really long time to respond to new feature requests, and most of the support tickets are still open.
Plus major patch releases only seem to happen after major events that make old renditions obsolete, if not downright broken and dismantled.
Although new software does have a ton of useless speghetti code.
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"wow, cool. Let's see how people interact with these magical creatures"
They are mowed down faster than they can regrow and are replaced with asphalt. Oh.
“Burn Them!”
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Went out on a limb for that one.
No reason to bark at them, it has a nice ring to it.
Self-replicating, solar-powered machines with long life cycles that synthesise carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen, sturdy building materials and sometimes edible products, while providing shade, cooling and ground stabilisation.
I think this is a missed trope for solarpunkish scifi: manipulating plants to grow anything. Fabric for clothes growing as bark. Tomatoes with pracetamol in them. Flowers depositing certain minerals it picks up from the ground in them. Stuff like this.
Children of time had a lot of this. One factions technology is mostly based on natural processes. Their most complicated computer systems are ant based if I remember well. Great book.
So did the Discworld books!
The Simpsons were the real sci-fi all along with Tomacco
"Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld ?
A setting I'm working on includes engineered plants for construction. Think a tree that can be shaped like a vine, a grow light box strapped to the leader node, the light box changes angles to get the plant to change direction of new growth, forming the main supports to have the floors built on. They've also got effectively artificial mycelium cultivated over entire planets that form internet connections and backup power grid, with fruiting bodies that provide solar energy to the system
Like a factory game but you have to modify plants and animal's with crispr
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I have to keep reminding myself that effectively our technology is just a loosely-based, extremely primitive, and extremely inefficient mimicry of shit that started happening on its own billions and billions of years ago across the entire universe and perfectly scales from microscopic to galactic levels.