Timeline for How plausible are underwater trees?
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| Jan 16, 2021 at 20:57 | vote | accept | FrankRebin | ||
| Jan 14, 2021 at 6:46 | comment | added | Redbud201 | I always thought materials like bamboo and rubber would be useful to an aquatic civilization. Bamboo for its wood-like rigidness and tubular structure, which could be made into floats, framework, pipes or storage vessels. Rubber would be an excellent flexible and waterproof adhesive and sealant. Both bamboo and plants that produce latex rubber like to grow near areas with water, so you might incorporate some of those useful aspects into your floating trees. Overall, it's a good answer, I like it a lot. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 22:59 | comment | added | FrankRebin | I should have clarified in my last comment that this alien species, being marine mammals, has developed airbubble habitats to live in mini pockets of 'surface' deep underwater where the most/best resources lie. So any wood they incorporate into their civilisation would be exposed to repeated soaking and drying. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 22:55 | comment | added | DWKraus | @FrankRebin the colder/higher pressure, the better. Most seem to last a long time unless they dry out at some point. But wood is a renewable resource, so it's not uber-critical. This article says trees might last up to 10,000 years in the ocean. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/… | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 22:49 | comment | added | FrankRebin | This is a great concept! I have pondered the idea of floating lily pad ecologies to add some surface interactions to what I want to be an almost completely oceanic world (perhaps less than 1% surface is land) and these mangrove nest ecologies fit in perfectly to add variety. My only concern is how long the wood of surface trees, be they mangrove or your conceptual ones, would last when taken underwater by the alien species to use. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 22:31 | history | answered | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |