Sure. You set up a rail network that serves communities around Dublin and I will grow some mold into that form.
Yeah, over here the government would throw a single oat down where Dublin is, and then pat themselves on the back for giving the culchies more roads than the mould recommended
Plenty of mold in my rented accommodation if that’s any help
I don’t think designing it is the problem. We’ve had designs for an underground system since the 70s.
They did already, and instead of public transport hubs they just approved the building of apple green service stations
Not a scientists , but ill give it a go.
I have oats, a sheet of perspex and some slime mold spores .
If you wanted to get fancy, you could laser etch an indent for each city and town.
It’s a really interesting concept, they’re beginning to try to integrate them into computer chips now too
Joe Rogan’s mind is blown, the poor creature.
How does the slime know which TDs will attempt to sandbag it or which unaffected locals will make punitive objections?
The government tried this but it was deemed too efficient. As a compromise they plied the transport minister Eamonn Ryan with whiskey, spun him around blindfolded while he ejaculated on a map of Ireland. 28 hours later the slimey ectoplasm reorganised itself into a vast fucking network of bicycle lanes all over the entire country
Our ot would probably just say there isn’t mushroom for improvement
I really think they should. Dublin is tough to get through quickly .
I still don’t get how this would work. Slime works great in a petri dish, but they don’t have budgets, rivers, mountains, hills, populations to worry about.
I’m a simple man. I see a Joe Rogan post, I am spectacles.
So what makes this any better than applying a traditional pathfinding algorithm like Dijkstra’s?
Poor old Joe, how many times can his mind be blown like this without doing some serious damage
Oh for fuck sake… Don’t tell me you’re falling for his shite too.
It’s just path of least resistance. Even water can do that.
It didn’t have people’s homes and geography your contest with.
Yes, but that’s not what you want.
A slime mould will link all those points in the most efficient manner. But that sort of efficiency is one that doesn’t have much value in a transport network.
In a transport network, you need to populate the high density corridors with high-frequency high-capacity links. And you need routes that are as direct as possible between the places that are major trip generators (i.e. starting points such as homes, or destinations such as work-places or retail centres).
We already have a lot of expertise, and lots of tools to do that, that do a better job than slime mould.
It’s just that we don’t use them in Ireland.
You could drip runny shite onto a banking tray and use the connections it develops as a basis for a transport network but the network needs to be built afterwards, shitting into a tray is the easy part
We can’t get people to support a bus system designed by international experts and was already scaled back because a few people lost their on street parking. What hope would we have of getting support for a transport network designed by some slime?
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Sure. You set up a rail network that serves communities around Dublin and I will grow some mold into that form.
Yeah, over here the government would throw a single oat down where Dublin is, and then pat themselves on the back for giving the culchies more roads than the mould recommended
Plenty of mold in my rented accommodation if that’s any help
I don’t think designing it is the problem. We’ve had designs for an underground system since the 70s.
They did already, and instead of public transport hubs they just approved the building of apple green service stations
Not a scientists , but ill give it a go.
I have oats, a sheet of perspex and some slime mold spores .
If you wanted to get fancy, you could laser etch an indent for each city and town.
It’s a really interesting concept, they’re beginning to try to integrate them into computer chips now too
Joe Rogan’s mind is blown, the poor creature.
How does the slime know which TDs will attempt to sandbag it or which unaffected locals will make punitive objections?
The government tried this but it was deemed too efficient. As a compromise they plied the transport minister Eamonn Ryan with whiskey, spun him around blindfolded while he ejaculated on a map of Ireland. 28 hours later the slimey ectoplasm reorganised itself into a vast fucking network of bicycle lanes all over the entire country
Our ot would probably just say there isn’t mushroom for improvement
I really think they should. Dublin is tough to get through quickly .
I still don’t get how this would work. Slime works great in a petri dish, but they don’t have budgets, rivers, mountains, hills, populations to worry about.
I’m a simple man. I see a Joe Rogan post, I am spectacles.
So what makes this any better than applying a traditional pathfinding algorithm like Dijkstra’s?
Poor old Joe, how many times can his mind be blown like this without doing some serious damage
Oh for fuck sake… Don’t tell me you’re falling for his shite too.
It’s just path of least resistance. Even water can do that.
It didn’t have people’s homes and geography your contest with.
Yes, but that’s not what you want.
A slime mould will link all those points in the most efficient manner. But that sort of efficiency is one that doesn’t have much value in a transport network.
In a transport network, you need to populate the high density corridors with high-frequency high-capacity links. And you need routes that are as direct as possible between the places that are major trip generators (i.e. starting points such as homes, or destinations such as work-places or retail centres).
We already have a lot of expertise, and lots of tools to do that, that do a better job than slime mould.
It’s just that we don’t use them in Ireland.
You could drip runny shite onto a banking tray and use the connections it develops as a basis for a transport network but the network needs to be built afterwards, shitting into a tray is the easy part
We can’t get people to support a bus system designed by international experts and was already scaled back because a few people lost their on street parking. What hope would we have of getting support for a transport network designed by some slime?