On 23 Oct 2017 at 8:44, Jerry Barrington wrote:

> I dunno.  Seems like the impact could easily damage the sapling too
> much.

Actually covered if you follow the links. These are real world items
used for planting trees via airdrop from things like C-130s. and not
flying nap of the earth.

They are designed to prevent that sort of shock.

True, designing the equivalent for orbital drop would be a lot
harder, but I'd probably try bundling a big lot of them into a rentry
package that'd break up and spread them over an area once they got to
the right altitude.

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