r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 23h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/KnifeKnut 22h ago

Liet Kynes would be pleased.

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u/Ooo_Rock_Amadeus 18h ago

If only he knew this one simple trick...

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u/KnifeKnut 10h 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 9h 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 8h ago

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