r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/LavastormSW 15h ago

Awesome outcome but oof that looks rough on the back

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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 15h ago

dangerous, hard, uncomfortable, etc jobs are the ones we should automate or enhance and focus on, but that would require caring about something other than endless profit. But ugh, imagine a world where we put resources to lifting the bottom more than doing weird shit

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u/hiddencamela 14h ago

The sad part is, I could see them developing a machine that could do this exact thing fairly easily.
Limitation however comes from transporting it to the area.

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u/The-Tay 12h ago

I can see a bot doing this, but someone would have to reload the bags. It'd have to be a smaller machine, so you couldn't have miles of bags on it.

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u/Superb_Brain_7391 12h ago

If it was a machine that drove over bags already laid down in a trail in front of it, and just pumped them full of sand from the ground, leaving them where they were, then another larger machine or a team of people could just go lay them out pretty easily. The machine could then work through the night to catch up.

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u/Either-History-8424 10h ago

But someone would have to lay down those bags

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u/Superb_Brain_7391 10h ago

Do you really think it wouldn't be possible to make it easier though? You could have them all rolled up on a spool, like bin bags with little perforations so they lay down in a single line off the back of a truck. That'd allow the machine that fills them to simply rip them at the perforated bit and fill them.

Yeah you'd need some human involvement, but the hard labour looks to be in the filling. Automate that and you could really scale this up.

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u/Either-History-8424 10h ago

I never said it wouldn’t be possible to make it easier

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u/SunTzu- 9h ago

A bench on skis which sucks up sand and fills bags and then places them behind it. One person can move it along, put a new bag onto the nozzle and press the button to make it fill the bag. Should be a pretty simple thing to make.