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Multidakman
I see many in the comments making fun of this, but not many realizing the substantial use this provides for space
mrsticktastic
Cool and all but whats its life expectancy. Whats the rate of carbon consumption vs. Oxygen output. Does it require sustenance?
BreakablePotato
Ffs. This was cobbled together by an artist. It never did anything and anyhow, real leaves exist. Or algae, fwiw.
MisterLemons
"We coated a fine mesh with algae. Admire us"
MFsatan
GreatswordAdv
When you get enough of them, it turns into a Pokémon.
Friendo2
It’s a start. I firmly believe that science can save us. But we first have to believe and invest in it enough to help
chemicalBagel
This sounds fake
somethingsomethingsomethingclever
We have leaves at home.
MacClay
Is this the one where they just too chlorophyll from plants and embedded it in silk or whatever, resulting in a leaf that dies immediately?
IwishIwasJamesBond
BigTex1
Hmmm, can’t find much on it https://www.cnet.com/news/this-man-made-breathing-leaf-is-an-oxygen-factory-for-space-travel/
VoidofStatic
Well I'm disappointed, the article is from 2014
otamolot
Wow! Let's terra form Mars.
OrkenMork
this cannot end well...
SacrificialClam
Can't we just clean the garbage out of the ocean and shut down greenhouse gas factories?
StarscreamAndHutch
It craves electrolytes.
INeedACleverNameToPutHere
Is there some natural way to do this? Could you imagine if there was like a bunch of them? All kinds of animals could live there too!
Callipygius
What if we made it so they could self propogate,like you just make a few and those make a lot more?
TheWombatStrikesAgain
That'd be too expensive to maintain in the wilderness. You'd need to send repair teams all the time, and the costs of building new ones...
g0st
What if we lived in a world where you could have both? WhyNotBoth.gif
LordNergal
The natural ones also expell CO2 during the second half of the process (photosynthesis is the first half) and the wild ones are now 1/
LordNergal
estimated by the IPCC to be enhancing climate change with all the CO2 they are giving off. Basically, trees are the lymph nodes of the 2/
LordNergal
climate system. You want oxygen made, look to the oceans. 3/3
pomax
Source or you're just making shit up @op.
BimbaTheHappyArgentineSheep
3.8 million dollars.
h4p10
Shoot it into space and test on the ISS.
MyBigMouth
I'm gonna guess that 1 downvote (at time of this post), was someone who thought you said ISIS.
littlecheesetoes
This is 7years old, according to my google skills
MarHikari
That's the sims icon!
FabulouslyTiti
First thing I thought of as well. Sul sul~ ♥
VallarMorghoulis
Can I still wipe my ass with it when I'm in the woods?
yonafin
Isn’t this just an art piece? The last time I saw this, that’s what the sleuth’s discovered.
colt64
You hear that, plants? Your days are fucking numbered.
DickButtowski
Thanks to humanity
Justheretoshowpeoplereferences
When you have allergies but you also like nature .... Robo-Nature :0
Calicoastin818
The next step is we make a Biodome!
BigTex1
Pauly shore would like to know your location.
Calicoastin818
Brendan frasier has joined the chat ?
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
This is amazing. There are so many practical applications on Earth as well as in space. What a cool mesh material this could be in design
starkeclipse
What applications are you thinking of?
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
Well, say you had building wall that could be covered in a network mesh of this. That might be interesting. Or, underground.
CheezeDanish
...and people are just "hurr hurr way to go scientists we already got leaves" when in fact this is huge.
beccerz777
Corporations will always be greedy, so we gotta do what we gotta do, this is a big win!
commentsivehadafew
Now make 1 trillion of them
linguinepescatore
not unless you're on a ringworld
ChelleBelle0000
Why are we making leaves now when we have leaves?
GaryDang3r
I believe they are suitable as a building material instead of real plants, imagine houses and or roofs covered in them
invinuit350
Mars bitches.M A R S. Mars.
eatdeeznuts
Cuz in a few years we won’t have anymore leaves
jonnyc78
Super leaves to fix the worrld
g0st
We used to have horses before we had cards too.
msd3k
Thats...not wrong...
Burke616
We should probably figure out how to make them before we need them.
UnpinionedPoplars
Buy a plunger before you need a plunger.
skyezer
These are "ethically exploitable" leaves. No real trees were harmed in the making of this leaf...
thepromisedLAN
Leaves at home.....
bemurray814
This is to help make oxygen on other planets.
Neoeon
The first step to making uber leaves that can each do the work of an entire tree is to make one leaf that works half as well as one leaf.
odinragnarok
space travel? or when we kill the planet?
Infinias
We kill it faster than we can repopulate it with the fake versions of the destroyed things
LogicDude
Can they be made with a carbon-negative process? If so, maybe this could help reduce global warming.
GlobalImageServiceCat
It does not need to be "carbon-negative" as long as it can absorb more CO2 than it takes to produce it.
LordNergal
Short answer, according to the draft paper I saw years ago: No. They become carbon-neutral in the long term.
MajorTom0101
Yeah you just buy carbon credits from a Brazilian logging company that promises not to cut some trees down and your good to go.
AwwDamn321
spx39
I promise to not cut down 100000 trees for every 100$ someone sends me
spx39
are they trees I could've cut down in the first place? Will I cut down billions of trees anyway? You'll never know