Hatrack River Forum: Why does the wood for your house have to be dead?

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Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060116/treehouse_tec.html?source=rss

Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :

That is *amazingly* cool. I want one!

Of course, I leave my windows open in the dead of winter even with my radiator broken, so maybe I'm just weird.

Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

That's pretty cool. Requires a little too much long term planning for the average person, but cool nonetheless.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Putting on an addition would take years.

And it's actually conceivable that your house could outgrow your family.

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

That really is cool! But I question if it's as good for the environment as, say, an underground house, or a super energy efficient house. I don't think they're going to catch on in a big way, given the exceedingly long lead time it takes to grow one. But wouldn't a genetically engineered "house tree" be cool? One that you could just spread seeds for all over uninhabited land, and come back in 100 years to find fully grown houses, all ready for habitation? I think that would be very cool.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

It makes perfect sense. Tree houses will be the new college fund.

As soon as your kid is born, you start growing his house so that when he graduated high school, he already has his own bachelor pad ready to go. When he needs to upgrade, he either starts growing an addition, or he sells it to another young bachelor and buys something bigger, say a prefab Redwood or Sequoya, and moves in there.

What I'd be interested in seeing is what Bill Gates would do to one of those things. It'd be like Star Trek meets Swiss Family Robinson.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

Oh, awesome. Wow!

Thanks for the link, erosomniac.

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

So it doesn't scream when you burn it. [Wink]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Wouldn't the interior of a house like that get smaller as time goes on? I'm just kinda curious.

Posted by Geekazoid99 (Member # 8254) on :

That is very very cool i want one even though it takes forever to build one

Maybe i'm just very patiet i have a project in mind to put a peice of glass in a bowl and pass it on from generation to generation to see if it is a liquid or not

but the tree thing is soo cool