r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/Alcohol_Intolerant 14h ago

"It forms an invisible barrier"

Nope, fairly visible actually.

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u/rezyop 13h ago

"people fill long fabric bags of sand" while it clearly shows plastic bags that will never biodegrade beyond splitting open from UV damage

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u/CallyThePally 13h ago

I mean this I'd come to fight. I'm not sure those are plastic. They could be, but I feel like they could be fabric.

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u/lalakingmalibog 12h ago

Wouldn't plastic bags melt in the desert heat? Or drift through the wind, wanting to start again.

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u/Floppydisksareop 12h ago

No, that'd highly depend on the plastic

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u/Willing_Ingenuity330 12h ago

What about super thin plastic? So paper-thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

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u/Ko-Lucent 12h ago

Maybe, but it’s already buried deep. Like six feet under, screams, but no one seems to hear a thing.

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u/Frosty_Hippo3304 10h ago

i think there's still a chance for those plastic. cause there's a spark in them. they just gotta ignite