stackyFACTSTo save the planet, we decided to grow lettuce in the most expensive real estate possible. Vertical farming stacks crops inside climate-controlled urban warehouses, burning terrifying amounts of electricity to recreate the sun, just to produce leafy greens at ten times the traditional cost.
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Hand-feeding fish is out; artillery is in. Massive offshore aquaculture pens employ automated pneumatic cannons that shotgun specialized floating pellets…
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A pile of grain is boring, but a cloud of grain is a lethal bomb. When microscopic particles of agricultural dust become suspended in the air inside a massive…
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Extremely rich landowners used to hire actual living humans to sit melancholically in their manicured estates. These ornamental hermits were strictly…
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