• DaGeek247
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    302 months ago

    These would have to be very low power in order to avoid that, yeah. Thankfully, shotguns are incredibly forgiving of that sort of thing if you use a pump action one.

    • @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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      362 months ago

      Alternatively, you could fire them at an upward angle, letting the seeds scatter widely and fall to the ground in a parabolic arc. Horticultural artillery, as it were.

      • @ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
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        151 month ago

        Alternatively alternatively, you could somehow propel them with those things attached to your body just below the wrist in almost any direction

        • swab148
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          241 month ago

          Yeah, the shotgun shells were a bad approach, we should have been using grenades!

          • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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            31 month ago

            They make airsoft grenades that yeet pellets in every direction. Much less force than a shotgun shell as well. We solved it!

      • Natanael
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        51 month ago

        The initial explosion sending them off is worse than the collision (especially with soil)

    • @frezik@midwest.social
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      172 months ago

      Still doesn’t really work. Lots of tree planting involves shoving a sapling in the ground and walking away with no followup. That results in a bunch of dead saplings. Shotgun seeds would probably do the same.

      • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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        212 months ago

        I mean… Because you just uprooted a sapling, and put the damaged baby tree in the ground, away from parents and with an unfamiliar mycelial network, and hoped it would survive with zero manual intervention

        There’s a whole ecosystem underground with so much going on we’ve barely begun to understand

        • SkaveRat
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          211 month ago

          if you see a baby sapling, don’t pick it up and transplant it somewhere else. its momma tree is probably around somewhere and waits for you to walk away