It's a shame that if the goal was to create a robotic bee as a weapon, we would have them, but for agriculture that will literally save humankind it takes so much longer.
Ya know what, I worked on a farm where they used the cow dung on "fallow" fields, then come spring they disced and raked over the field, let sit untouched for a whole year then sewed it with either alfalfa or corn for silage to feed the milk cows. Not a single bit of fertilizer was ever bought for any of the 2,000 acres that belonged to those fields. We had bumper crops from every field we spread with cow dung. Having fields to leave 100% alone for a year was perfect. Alfalfa planted the first year then corn the 3rd year and cow dung spread and worked into the soil the 4th winter made for very healthy fields. The owners were told the fields were played out and wouldn't grow diddly squat but if they are rotated and allowed to be fertilizer naturally with the abundance of cow poop that's readily available year round made better sense than spending thounds of dollars to produce a measly crop did NOT make sense. Maybe yall should look at the older HEALTHY farms that have never used industrial fertilizer! Just saying and if you look at the Amish and Menanite community they practice farming the same way I just mentioned and you'll see that they don't use chemicals to farm with either and have healthy crops to sustain their communities needs.
While these discoveries are still in the research phase, there's indeed a potential of using nature-inspired solutions to address environmental issues like plastic pollution. The worms and enzymes could help reduce plastic waste, but further advancements are needed to scale the process for real-world application and the idea of robot bees sounds exciting, it's also a bit scary, like something out of a sci-fi movie. There are a lot of challenges to making them work, like short battery life and how small they need to be. Also, people might be worried about how these robots might be misused, even though the scientists say they aren't made for spying. The main point is that even though robot bees could help, they can’t replace real bees. We still need to focus on protecting real bees as they are essential to our food and the planet
nitrogen fixing would be a great enabler and upfront investment protection; as people tend to think to overestimate agricultural output and be disheartened or screw over investors by their own projected failure's especially in the venue of agriculture.
Maybe the answer with bees could simply be that they need vacations sometimes just like humans. I wonder if anyone has tried alternating the bees annually from an idealic situation from a human perspective to an idealic situation as seen through the eye's of bees?
I don't agree with your moral conclusion that "biopiracy" is wrong. We shouldn't allow Monsanto to copyright the genetic code of a seed; a country doesn't own the genetic code of a legume. You dno't have a "cultural" claim to ownership of the idea of a class of living organism. Countries are free to make the laws they want and try to prevent this, but you can't own a breed of dog, you can't own a type of corn.
Uhhh no they can't. You can talk all you want about getting rid of oil and plastics and making people cycle or use public transport but the truth is that it won't happen. Can't happen. Existing nfrastructure is one reason, capitalism is another. Eficiency will take a hit. Modern lifestyle will plummet. Then there's the reason that people just dont care and won't change no matter how much people whine on and on bout the dangers of oil. Nope. Finding solutions is our only hope. Plus pre-1920 we didnt have the lifestyle we have today so you can't say "pre-1920s were amazing" without saying "pre-Walmart, electronics, hundreds of modern commercial products we (yes that includes you and me) take for granted." You cannot look me in the eyes and say pre-Plastics era was better than today. Environmentally? Yes. Lifestyle-wise? No. Can we stop using the stuff? No. Again - finding solutions is our only hope.
Plastics have changed the world for the better 1 billion times over. Now that we're discovering compounds to further turn these plastics into other things is incredible. I think if you were around in pre-1920 you'd disagree with your statement.
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Which fix are you most excited about? 👀
self fertilising slime corn is incredible
All of them.
None of them. In my heart I know with a grinding certainty that every time a problem is solved by technology, another one - at least - is created.
It's a shame that if the goal was to create a robotic bee as a weapon, we would have them, but for agriculture that will literally save humankind it takes so much longer.
Robotic killer bees are coming. Bombs and bullets will become obsolete.
Robotic bee to save humankind? Give me what you smoke.
wow these are ingenious
Ya know what, I worked on a farm where they used the cow dung on "fallow" fields, then come spring they disced and raked over the field, let sit untouched for a whole year then sewed it with either alfalfa or corn for silage to feed the milk cows. Not a single bit of fertilizer was ever bought for any of the 2,000 acres that belonged to those fields. We had bumper crops from every field we spread with cow dung. Having fields to leave 100% alone for a year was perfect. Alfalfa planted the first year then corn the 3rd year and cow dung spread and worked into the soil the 4th winter made for very healthy fields. The owners were told the fields were played out and wouldn't grow diddly squat but if they are rotated and allowed to be fertilizer naturally with the abundance of cow poop that's readily available year round made better sense than spending thounds of dollars to produce a measly crop did NOT make sense. Maybe yall should look at the older HEALTHY farms that have never used industrial fertilizer! Just saying and if you look at the Amish and Menanite community they practice farming the same way I just mentioned and you'll see that they don't use chemicals to farm with either and have healthy crops to sustain their communities needs.
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While these discoveries are still in the research phase, there's indeed a potential of using nature-inspired solutions to address environmental issues like plastic pollution. The worms and enzymes could help reduce plastic waste, but further advancements are needed to scale the process for real-world application and the idea of robot bees sounds exciting, it's also a bit scary, like something out of a sci-fi movie. There are a lot of challenges to making them work, like short battery life and how small they need to be. Also, people might be worried about how these robots might be misused, even though the scientists say they aren't made for spying. The main point is that even though robot bees could help, they can’t replace real bees. We still need to focus on protecting real bees as they are essential to our food and the planet
What about adding the Ancient Roman water-self-repair components to the mud/clay material?
You mean natural cement, from volcanic ash.
@@carlthor91 I mean the self repair properties of the ancient roman cement that waas discovered recently and yes Volcanic ash is a component of it
Exciting research but why look for fixes when you could research the root of the problems?
nitrogen fixing would be a great enabler and upfront investment protection; as people tend to think to overestimate agricultural output and be disheartened or screw over investors by their own projected failure's especially in the venue of agriculture.
"This will fix everything!"
"Uhm but why do we need the carbon in plastic to be in the atmosphere instead of on the grou..."
"THIS FIXES EVERYTHING!"
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Maybe the answer with bees could simply be that they need vacations sometimes just like humans. I wonder if anyone has tried alternating the bees annually from an idealic situation from a human perspective to an idealic situation as seen through the eye's of bees?
All very interesting. Please remember that there is the letter "T" in the alphabet (or should that be "alphabeh"?) 😉
Yay let's replace real bees with robot bees and then add spyware to them!
Why just don't make sure that we keep the bees well and alive?
We do, we need them for honey.
@@jeckjeck3119 Well then help eliminate the use of glyphosate herbicides.
Also, contraceptives for the 3rd world.
Reupload!
I don't agree with your moral conclusion that "biopiracy" is wrong. We shouldn't allow Monsanto to copyright the genetic code of a seed; a country doesn't own the genetic code of a legume. You dno't have a "cultural" claim to ownership of the idea of a class of living organism.
Countries are free to make the laws they want and try to prevent this, but you can't own a breed of dog, you can't own a type of corn.
It is a shame people find "solutions" to problems that could just be removed from society. Pre 1920 we were fine without plastics
Fine is a relative term. What about medical technology? Food and water transportation?
Uhhh no they can't. You can talk all you want about getting rid of oil and plastics and making people cycle or use public transport but the truth is that it won't happen. Can't happen. Existing nfrastructure is one reason, capitalism is another. Eficiency will take a hit. Modern lifestyle will plummet. Then there's the reason that people just dont care and won't change no matter how much people whine on and on bout the dangers of oil.
Nope. Finding solutions is our only hope.
Plus pre-1920 we didnt have the lifestyle we have today so you can't say "pre-1920s were amazing" without saying "pre-Walmart, electronics, hundreds of modern commercial products we (yes that includes you and me) take for granted."
You cannot look me in the eyes and say pre-Plastics era was better than today. Environmentally? Yes. Lifestyle-wise? No. Can we stop using the stuff? No.
Again - finding solutions is our only hope.
The world has changed a lot since 1920.
We were also fine without oil, cars, internet, phones, radio, electricity, gas.
Plastics have changed the world for the better 1 billion times over. Now that we're discovering compounds to further turn these plastics into other things is incredible. I think if you were around in pre-1920 you'd disagree with your statement.