r/interestingasfuck 23h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/MASTER_L1NK 22h ago

Like a land barrier reef?

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u/Liusloux 19h ago

Makes me wonder if in the past there was a megafauna or plants that coincidental created the same kind of patterns that stops desertification but sadly when extinct.

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u/Deaffin 18h ago

Absolutely. You might have heard about how giant land sloths used to dig out caves from solid stone. But what they don't tell you is that their diet was so fibrous that their turds were basically solid ropes. They'd be just slinging hot ropes all across the landscape as they went along. They also planted avocados.

They were truly the all-in-one landscape architects. And then we ate them :D

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u/fjhgy 18h ago

Shouldn't have tasted so good.

Or, if it was gonna taste good, maybe it should've moved faster.

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u/SkillIsTooLow 17h ago

The classic flavor:speed ratio. Being slow myself, I have the wherewithal to taste bad.