/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7574997]

Hey /sci/ how come no one has made a moss or something or other that can grow well on roads, adds traction, and can survive being constantly run over by multi ton vehicles?

Assuming we were to cover most of the road surface of say north america, how much would something like that be able to minimize the Co2 output of vehicles?

[Anonymous No.7575000]

Moss by itself, would significantly reduce traction, and even more so when wet.
It'd probably have a significant effect on CO2 reductions, but would require a crapload of energy to get it to grow on asphalt naturally.
Not a bad idea though.

[Anonymous No.7575036]

>>7575000
Right so how do we get it to gain more traction...maybe if it was ridged with bits of bark?

[Anonymous No.7575039]

there are a billion better ways of reducing co2 emissions than growing moss on roads. would improve asphalt's aesthetic value though

[Anonymous No.7575055]

>>7574997
>moss improves traction

You've obviously never driven a car

[Anonymous No.7575060]

>>7575055
Surely we could find a way to make one that's on par traction wise with roads

[Anonymous No.7575079]

>>7575060
I'm pretty sure we could

but try doing it in a way that's affordable in regards of coating millions of miles of road with it

[Anonymous No.7575090]

>>7574997
>something like that be able to minimize the Co2 output of vehicles?
If you want to use moss to reduce emissions wouldn't it make more sense to engineer moss that filled a tailpipe (or just exhaust) attachment?

[Anonymous No.7575094]

>>7575090
ya but how is it going to get water there? Maybe on a hydrogen fuel cell car

[Anonymous No.7575095]

>>7575090
Or we could just follow the apparent global trend and all drive zero emission electric cars, instead of creating bizarre hybrid moss mufflers.

[Anonymous No.7575124]

>>7574997
>ey /sci/ how come no one has made a moss or something or other that can grow well on roads, adds traction, and can survive being constantly run over by multi ton vehicles?

Because we haven't found a magic lamp yet?

Where to start... Have you seen North America? The climate variation is absurd. It has parts that get frozen and parts that get fried, parts that rarely see rain and parts that rarely see anything other than rain. The soil can be rich and fertile, dusty and dry, rocky and cold, or mostly mud. There are roads at high lattitudes running east-west and cut through tall forests and so never have the sun shine upon them except around noon in summer. There are roads cut through deserts that never find shade during the daylight hours except during a storm.

If you could find or make a moss, a mildew, a fungus, *anything* able to grow in all of those conditions, you could turn both the deserts of Africa and the wastes of Antarctica green at the same time.

Not to mention, things that grow can also die and burn. How'd you like to listen to the news one morning and learn that one road out of town is bumper-to-bumper traffic because the other road out of town is on fire?

[Anonymous No.7575126]

>>7575090
>>7575094
why not build the entire engine from moss?

nobel prize here I come

[Anonymous No.7575212]

If a sun made of fire and sun made of moss were to collide, what would happen?

[Anonymous No.7575226]

>>7575212
Better question. If a sun made of moss and a sun made of tires were to collide, what would happen?

[Anonymous No.7575250]

>>7575094

I'm pretty sure water is a constituent of exhaust fumes besodes from CO2/CO.

[Anonymous No.7575252]

>>7575250
Isn't it going to be too hot for them to survive there though?

[Anonymous No.7575254]

>>7575226
the sun made of tires would be able to grip the sun made of moss and roll around on it for a while till it got bored then leave.

D'UH

[Anonymous No.7575258]

>>7575094
If we had hydrogen fueled cars, we wouldn't need to worry about CO2 emissions of these cars.

[Anonymous No.7575427]

>>7575212
>>7575226
>>7575254
You guys are getting off topic. If a sun made of moss and a sun made of emissions collided, what would happen?

[Anonymous No.7575441]

>>7574997
Thankfully, you aren't a civil engineer :^)

[Anonymous No.7575443]

>>7575060
No. Plant material will just get squished after being driven on it too much and that would just make the road slippery, also good luck finding a plant that survives being crushed 1000 times a day. Its a pretty bad idea in general.

[Anonymous No.7575452]

I think it could work if you cover the road surface in pebbles/small rocks, and allowed the moss to grow in between the surface. The bits of rock would provide traction to the tires of a car and the moss would still be able to grow and help with CO2. Also, growing the moss in the space beneath the jagged pebbles would allow more water to collect there, keeping the moss cooler and hydrated longer throughout the day. A standard, smooth asphalt road with moss would be slippery as hell.

[Anonymous No.7575459]

>>7575452

No it wouldn't you fucking idiot. Rocks would just fuck up everyone's car and a huge safety hazard.

[Anonymous No.7575511]

>>7575459
Not sure if troll... most of the roadways where I'm from are surfaced this way. It's referred to as "oil and chips." Allowing moss to grow underneath of the points of the rocks that make contact with the tires seems feasible to me.

[Anonymous No.7575523]

>>7574997
>>7575036
>let's put moss on streets to improve traction!
>moss would actually reduce traction
>well...uhm...then we should make it so that moss improves traction!!
what the fuck is wrong with you
are you clinically retarded?

[Anonymous No.7575543]

>>7574997
>growing plants
>on a surface being traversed by 40 ton vehicles
did you discover the retarded idea of placing solar panels on roads and decided that you have to one-up it in terms of sheer stupidity?

I mean how the fuck do you even come up with the brainfart that being crushed by heavy trucks day in day out is somehow beneficial to the health of plants?
common sense is your friend when it comes to determining the feasibility of an "idea"

[Anonymous No.7575548]

>>7575523

Hehe, this.
Better idea, OP. Let's get asphalt classified as a kind of moss. Mission accomplished, and you can just go back to whatever the fuck you do when you're not hatching breakthrough ideas like this whole mess.

[Anonymous No.7575554]

>>7575548
>Let's get asphalt classified as a kind of moss
10/10
brb going to patent it before OP does :^)

[Anonymous No.7575620]

[Anonymous No.7575634]

>>7574997
Ocean Algae sucks up more CO2 than any other thing on the Earth combined by a large margin.

I honestly don't buy into this global change meme and CO2 being a problem, it can easily be fixed by promoting ocean algae growth.

There are bigger problems like companies throwing their trash into the ocean creating trash islands.

[Anonymous No.7575635]

>>7575620
I'm sure that road design is going to do wonders to your wheels.

Let's go out of our way to pave 0.000000000000001% of america's land area with faggot ass moss.

[Anonymous No.7575647]

>>7575635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYc-_q6UsZ0

fuck off

[Anonymous No.7575783]

>>7575620

[Anonymous No.7575993]

i'm not going to claim to be as smart as you guys

but i think that i can take from this thread that this moss on roads idea is a pretty good idea

[Anonymous No.7576155]

>>7575634

Pics of trash islands pls

[Anonymous No.7577324]

why not grow moss on the roof of your car?

[Anonymous No.7577331]

>>7576155

[Anonymous No.7577338]

What if we simply cover the road with a glass panel that has holes in it and grow the moss under that.
We will call it
>Solar Mossways

[Anonymous No.7577345]

Let's convert all cars to hovercars. Then they can just float above the moss-covered roads and the moss won't get crushed.

[Anonymous No.7577349]

Alright guys so if growing moss on all the roads reduces traction, why not reduce traction even more and just fly planes everywhere.

[Anonymous No.7577357]

>>7577349
Depends on if there's a moss that would help reduce air resistance

[Anonymous No.7577364]

>>7577349
Why not gather the moss up in big piles and then shoot people at the moss pile nearest their destination.

[Anonymous No.7577383]

>>7575126
lol'd

[H No.7577532]

>>7575254
We all know that a rolling tire gathers no moss.

[Anonymous No.7577541]

>>7574997
Lmao, this guy has never been out in nature or walked on moss in his life.

[Anonymous No.7577648]

>>7575212
>>7575226
Jesus fuck I lost it, I definitely lost it. I slid out of my chair I laughed so hard. Everyone in the lab is staring at me now.

[Anonymous No.7577748]

>>7577345
What if I invented a side hover car and we converted all the hover cars to that.

[Anonymous No.7577775]

>>7577748
was he seriously charged?

[Anonymous No.7577812]

make clothes out of moss

[Anonymous No.7577826]

>>7577775
He was arrested for bringing a bomb to the school, turns out it was just a bomb looking clock.

[Anonymous No.7577850]

>>7575523
so you shoot the guy down for having an idea?
you're everything wrong with science, and infact, the world

[Anonymous No.7577862]

>>7577850
go back to reddit faggot

[Anonymous No.7577885]

>>7577826
No, hoax bombs are illegal in TX, they never thought it was an actual bomb, they just thought he was fucking around using some shitty bomb prop on the first school day after 9/11.

[Anonymous No.7578332]

>>7577850
>so you shoot the guy down for having an idea?
if your "idea" falls apart the second someone actually thinks about its feasibility then it is simply a shit idea and deserves to be burnt
ideas don't make you special, they don't matter, everyone has ideas all the time
having ideas that actually work is what matters
you don't get a price just for the mere act of trying in the real world

[Anonymous No.7578532]

>>7575443
Yup, there's a reason wet leaves are bad for traction.

[Anonymous No.7578538]

>>7575427
Too abstract.

If a moss made of sun and an emissions made of sun collided, what would happen?