Re: Is this possible - trees blow the wind?
- From: ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:37:44 GMT
In article <Xns96FCA64835D342galopagosterrapincy@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cyde Weys <cyde@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>You've heard the old adage, Do trees sway in the wind or do they create the
>wind? (Or maybe you haven't.) Anyway, I was thinking of, as a science
>fiction idea, a planet consisting of two continents, both covered by trees,
>where the trees actually do create the wind. Basically the trees would all
>thrash together to create some sort of tradewind that would blow their
>seeds from one continent to the other. The continents are on opposite
>sides of the equator so half of a year later, when the seasons are
>reversed, the wind blows in the opposite direction to send seeds from the
>other continent back to the first one.
>
>I know it sounds kind of ridiculous ... but if you had millions of trees
>all thrashing together I bet you could get a wind strong enough to
>transfer, say, a dandelion seed a long distance.
>
Well,
I've seen odder ideas work, but on the face of it, it seems hard to
explain why they would have evolved that way (maybe they were bio-engineered
by a lost race..), why the regular winds wouldn't work, and where the
energy would come from -- those are pretty active plants! Oh, and a
plot and characters. Read "Balanced Ecology" from Schmitz or _The Integral
Trees_ by Niven for some odd and interesting plant ecologies (actually,
Niven kind of forgot the "plot & characters" bit).
Ted
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