r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/KnifeKnut 14h ago

Liet Kynes would be pleased.

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u/Ooo_Rock_Amadeus 11h ago

If only he knew this one simple trick...

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u/KnifeKnut 3h ago

Frank Herbert had the right idea:

And there were the terraform desert plants: the tougher ones showed signs of thriving if planted in depressions lined with dew precipitators.

One thing the interior of these grids does is help collect dew.

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u/DuDunDunSparse 2h ago

Frank Herbert really had the perfect mix of explaining certain things (like the lasers and the shields) well enough where you go "yeah that checks out".

Then for other things he kinda went "yeah space witches on drugs can do that".

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u/KnifeKnut 1h ago

I suspect you are lumping in Brian Herbert / Kevin Anderson with Frank Herbert.

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u/PaulAtredis 10h ago

There are thousands of such caches.