Bacteria Could Help Stop Desertification 218
Bridgette Steffen writes "In attempt to slow down desertification, a student at London's Architectural Association has proposed a 6000 km sandstone wall that will not only act as a break across the Sahara Desert, but also serve as refugee shelter. Last fall it won first prize in the Holcim Foundation's Awards for Sustainable Construction, and will use bacteria to solidify the sandstone."
Re:I for one (Score:3, Funny)
No word on your mortar yet, but you can keep your overlords kthxbye.
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
If our overlords are shitting out dung, no matter how useful, I'd prefer then to be underlords, or over-to-one-side-lords, or not-over-my-head-at-least-lords.
Re:A shield wall works great... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:deserts move all the time (Score:5, Funny)
Who the hell are you? Muad'Dib?
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Re:I for one (Score:3, Funny)
If our overlords are shitting out dung, no matter how useful, I'd prefer then to be underlords, or over-to-one-side-lords, or not-over-my-head-at-least-lords.
Some aborigines consider dung a delicacy, you insensitive clod!!! Consider it a "desert" if you will...
Re:Dune Grass in the PNW (Score:5, Funny)
Another pathetic attempt... (Score:3, Funny)
...by artists so full of themselves that they think can understand and harness something like stone-making bacteria. I know many of these types. They want to discuss ad nauseum every single scientific advancement and it's cultural implications, thinking that they can make some important contribution to the field. It's obvious these guys don't have a clue, as they think that an ice-nine scenario is something that, first nobody thought of, and second is even possible. These are the same people who hear about the LHC and think that there's a good chance that the universe might implode when they turn it on. As if the world works like it does in the politically motivated somewhat-sci-fi books that are all the rage in these circles.
Please, stay in the coffee shops in the village, discussing the importance of your latest pathetic attempt at relevance through putting mannequin arms in toilets bowls and calling it art.
Boring (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
If our overlords are shitting out dung
Actually, we should start to worry if they start shitting out anything other than that. At the very least I'd say a trip to the doctor is in order.
Bacteria that stops decertification? (Score:3, Funny)
I would love to see that bacteria stop my CCNA from expiration.
Re:Specifics (Score:5, Funny)
Someone needs to genetically engineer a big desert worm.
Re:Specifics (Score:5, Funny)
Re:deserts move all the time (Score:2, Funny)
Shooting them on sight is always an option.
Re:deserts move all the time (Score:4, Funny)
why exactly are we to interfer with this process?
Gotta do SOMETHING with all that bacteria and sand.
What nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Where do they expect to get enough sand to build a wall 6000 km long?
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
TFA also has a blurb about "sustainable" bricks... made out of cow dung.
That's just bullshit
Re:What nonsense (Score:1, Funny)
OH! It's 6000km LONG. I was wondering what good a wall that high would be.
And to answer your question, they have a nanotechnology process for making sand from silicon ingots.