One Subject Many Projects Final: A Bait Tree
“I am studying future archeology because I want to find out how future weapons work in order to understand what future war scenarios look like”
As our technology, human population and efficiency rapidly increases, we will sometime in the near future find that most of the so-called Old Nature, such as wild rivers, wild animals etc., is enclosed in habitats – such as zoos, parks, gardens etc.
While this may sound scary, it is important to remember that “wild nature” is no longer needed in the future.
Efficiency is so high that basic human survival is easily taken care of. Everybody gets food, everybody is entertained and kept alive. It is not as dark as it may seem. Only the bare necessities are being grown: One type of potato, one type of carrot, one type of apples etc. All other plants are considered inefficient.
But – as I noted earlier – while this human/cultural development has been going on, the natural evolution has also steadily increased in efficiency (just as Darwin described it).
The trees, plants etc., have at a surprisingly rapid pace adjusted to this new environment.
Mobility of the plants has increased; the seeds suddenly reach much farther distances than they used to, the bees fly further away, even the leaves fall faster. The pace of nature is keeping up with the humans.
And this, in turn, creates problems for the humans.
As the mobility of the plants have rapidly increased, trees and plants from the Old Nature are designated as invasive species that ought to be terminated. Unusable trees and plants invade private spaces, just like ants, rats or mice in our contemporary world. You don’t notice it but suddenly small seeds of plants have come through tiny holes in the ventilation system, or grown through the floor, small plants emerge in your living room, bedroom, kitchen and even more important rooms such as server rooms etc.
In the year 2500 this has come so far that war has been declared. A war on all inefficient/invasive plants. It does not seem like a violent war (but it is).
Prisoners are being taken. Traps are being set up.
All of our theories point in this direction. This tree is a prisoner of war. It is being used as bait for seeds and other trees.
Trees live in colonies. They colonize areas. If one tree is in a place, it attracts other trees. This is not magic; nor is it a sign of conscious intelligence; it is Old Nature biology, ancient as Earth itself.
The military is using this tree as bait using simple methods of amplifying the already existing signals of the tree. The small sensor senses the movement of the tree and modulates the sine wave, which is playing from the little box. Every time the tree does something, it is monitored and amplified by the box. The sound waves from the box interfere with the waves of the wind in which the seeds travel. The seeds are in some way, that we do not yet understand, in contact with this tree. So they will naturally be attracted to the sound. Thereby all the seeds from the nearby areas will assemble in this room and can easily be destroyed by the soldiers on guard. This way the future society will quickly, efficiently and relatively inexpensively be able to destroy the biodiversity in the area.
