Our World would look like this if our governments were headed by scientists and artists. This innovative idea doesn't seem to adhere to the band-aid mending used by short sighted politics.This combats the problem with respect to the environment and human life, rather then petty over-exaggerated variables such as political agenda and monetary limitations.
I really loved this professor at NYU. He has awesome look!
His projects are so awesome. It reminds me my childhood of memory because he has divine aura. I wish I could go to NYU to attend his classes because I am sure it would inspire me a lot! I really love his art works as well... Oh... he is so awesome.. I wish I could be in New York to meet with him soon.
good idea but the meat is so stupid i though it was a joke the whole video. I dont think many people would buy these tree homes in developed countries though
Plants consume oxygen through plant respiration, they only can consume CO2 when there is light, so photosynthesis is possible to transform inorganic materials into "plant food".
@masterneme Plants do photosynthesis at day, a by-product of this process is oxygen. When you remove light out of the equation(light, Co2, H2o) , no photosynthesis is performed.
You are right that plants consume oxygen as well, although trees mostly consume oxygen through their roots. The risk of dying from lack of oxygen is not probable if the roots were to be in soil and not in the bedroom.
Another thing to keep in mind is that plants/trees produce more oxygen then it consumes.
There`s a problem with information abuse. If a modem records every movement of your machines, they will also get a data sheet of all your interaction with all electrical appliances. How much water do you use, what thing do you use at night or at day? The future will hold surveilance problems.
WOW!!! Thank you for all of these wonderful ideas! I'm sure the best way to understand the work and participate in a deeper more productive dialogue on this subject is at TED.com
I'm completely skeeved out by the meat house, but the tree house sounds cool. It's not even that new of an idea. People have been building and living in turf homes for a very long time. You would have to adapt the premise regionally, but that's to be expected.
"Mitchell Joachim earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors."
Interesting, let's see how it will develop during next years.
@Leehofooks lol well if you want to wait 7 years to live in the house. The house looks so so, but its alot of work for no pay off. Not to mention if it gets bugs, plus being super flammable, and the eventual dying off of the tree. No plant ever lives forever. Only in fairy tales can this shit work. Make houses out of current modern, cheap effective and easy to make materials that dont take 7 years to build.
@jwka2001"well if you want to wait 7 years to live in the house."
It sometimes takes years to build skyscrapers. Does that mean all the people who live/work there wait around homeless and jobless on the streets during that time?
"Not to mention if it gets bugs"
The homes are insulated (probably better than a conventional house).
"plus being super flammable"
A living tree would be far less flammable than a house made of dry wood.
And then you're left with... a wooden house! Oh no! Trees live to be hundreds or even thousands of years old. Modern houses are built to last a few decades. What makes more sense?
@Leehofooks No plant lives forever,, its true. Sure some live for thousands of years, even just a couple decades the tree would of squeezed out any space, doors, windows etc so it would be pointless to live in them. And if u wanna waste ur time growing a tiny house and taking 7 years go ahead. It would be cheaper to just cut down the trees, then replant them like we do now. If it was cost effective, wed be doing it by now.
@jwka2001 of all the things we do because they are cost effective, most still have to prove whether they contibute to peoples happiness... Growing things does.Iif you refuse to believe it, grow some tomatoes. Then imagine growing a house.
@Arudoloff i work for a greenhouse we grow 1000 tomatoes alone every year,,lol so i know what growing stuff is all about. If you want to waste 7 years at least for a house that will eventually grow and break the windows due to it crushing them, being able to die due to cold winters, or getting bugs, or diseases by all means live in the tree house. But I like other people will live in houses made from trees that are cut to shape. Its cheaper and better anyways. Thats why we arent living in trees
@jwka2001 Maybe you should do some research before deciding this guy from MIT doesn't know what he's talking about. And your "wait 7 years" argument is stupid. There's no reason developers can't begin growing a neighborhood of these homes and then sell them later. Most people don't have their homes built specifically for them. Did you sleep in a hotel room or a cardboard box while your home was being built?
@Leehofooks Then go live in the homes made of trees. There are countless problems these houses will suffer from. Mainly cause they are a living thing. We need to build fast, cheap reliable homes to house the poor, not 'houses' that take 7 years to build, and arent reliable. I'll place a bet with you, in 10 years if we are living(or more than 10%) are living in these tree homes, ill give you 10,000 dollars. But you wont take that bet up cause u know you'll lose.
@jwka2001 "Then go live in the homes made of trees..." Holy shit. Go do 5 minutes of research, and you'll see this is just a normal house with trees grafted around it.
And no, I don't think 10% of us will be living in these homes in 10 years, just like I don't think 10% of us will be driving solar-powered electric cars in 10 years. Why? Because jackasses like you dismiss any kind of innovation you can't wrap your little brains around right away.
@Leehofooks lol ya its cause of people like me..lol. Its probably because that the sciences havent yet perfected solar cells on cars other than those tiny 1 man cockroaches that go like 20mph lol. The reason why we dont have electric cars, is cause the batteries havent been able to store that much energy. 100 years ago they were saying electric cars are only 20 years away..lol. Untill nano tech we wont have realistic solar powered cars.
@Leehofooks if its such a great idea, why hasnt it taken off. Its such a great idea it clearly wont need government support(i.e. our tax dollars stolen for this shitty idea).People will be lining up to invest, and buy these homes.Why not put some of your hard earned money into this idea.. If its worth it you'll put your money where your mouth is. Me, along with the other people in the 21st century will live in nice houses instead. Go live in a Harry Potter book hahah seriously wtf is with people
@jwka2001 "if its such a great idea, why hasnt it taken off" You are one ignorant little cretin. People said the same thing about vaccines, human flight, and the steam engine. You sound like Napoleon commenting on the steam ship:
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."
In retrospect, he sounds pretty stupid, doesn't he?
@Leehofooks we have the tech to make these stupid houses now,, years ago too, and yet why arent we making them, the cost to benifit ratio is way to fucking off. saying your stuff about flight, vaccines is ignorant. We have materials now, that are better, cheaper, and last ALOT longer than trees. Thats why this idea will never work, and is even more pathetic than your argument. But by all means go grow urself a house lol. Go watch Avatar some more hahahaha
@Leehofooks im 27 but looking at ur profile it appears im not the only one who thinks your an idiot. Wow 22 pages of basically people bashing you. So im not the only one who thinks your an idiot. And obviously wont be the last. Have fun in your pathetic life trolling the internet lol.
@jwka2001 You're 27, and you type things like "urself"? Yeah, I tend to piss of idiots like you so they leave moronic messages on my profile. You know, in the time it took you to look at my profile, you could have done some research on these Terreform houses. But nah... thinking hurts, right?
Have fun with your ignorant life, expressing yourself like a 14 year old.
@Leehofooks hahahah thanks for making me laugh. My 'ignorant life' hahah i happen to be a member of Mensa,, im sure u dont know what that is. Only the top 2% of the population can join. I have a genius level IQ, and I currently make 60k on my greenhouse job while making another 50k-70k per year on side jobs i do for companies,,,ya my life sucks compared to yours. You spend all day trolling the internet on youtube, and probably in your moms basement from the looks of ur video. I so want to be you
@jwka2001 Having a high IQ doesn't necessarily mean you're not ignorant (but still, I'd expect a Mensa member to know that). You make a decent living, and your life doesn't suck? Cool, dude. But what's that got to do with not being ignorant?
I'd also expect a Mensa Society member to have noticed that those people on my profile tend to think the Earth is 6,000 years old and there were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. (And to spell out the whole word: "y-o-u-r-s-e-l-f" [Not that hard!].)
@Leehofooks Yes i've noticed that most are religious people on your profile, not all but most. But still the fact that they come to your profile site and not the videos to call you out just shows what a little troll you are. I mean sure a few here or there is fine and all, but you have like 22 pages of this shit..it tends to form a pattern of what kind of a shallow person you are. Sad that you find using urself instead of yourself is some major fault and showing my ignorance etc
@jwka2001 Hate messages sent to me are a negative reflection of me? Well then I guess every controversial politician, author, and scientist in the world must live in his aunt's "addict" (attic?). Don't you have some frivolous hobby? Video games, maybe? Or stupid horror movies? I don't watch TV or eat junk food or smoke pot. I read a lot and watch videos on YT (mostly about science), and yeah, I tend to piss of fundies and conspiracy theorists (and insecure horticulturists, I guess).
@Leehofooks All you do is troll youtube, and people bash you on your profile, you have 22 pages of at least half of the posts bashing you. You may be right on some of those arguments who knows, but when you have 22 pages of people calling you names, it tends to form a pattern on your behavior and life. You sit in your moms basement talking trash. Anyways David its been nice talking to you, have fun talking trash to people online since that is the only thing that makes u feel important in life
@jwka2001 I'd also expect a Mensa Society member to have looked into Terreform before commenting on this video. You'd think such a smart guy, working in a greenhouse, would have a basic concept of pleaching, grafting, and how trees grow anyway, right?
And that a Mensa Society member could come up with something more original than the old "mom's basement" cliche...
By the way, I'm a full-time student with a full-time job, and my name isn't David.
@Leehofooks yes i know all about grafting and cloning etc, i do it alot. I clone hundreds of plants maybe thousand or 2 each year, its not that complicated its pretty easy. I've been around greenhouses/plants for like 20 of my 27 years of life so i know a few things about it. And the 'moms basement' is just a stereotype, it could be an addict, or side room or bedroom, or maybe ur aunts or grandparents house etc. And im sure its david,,, of Shreveport, LA... u dont have to hide it
@jwka2001 I work the night shift, and on my coffee breaks, I spend about 5 minutes responding to the people I've enraged by saying something like "No, the Earth is not 6,000 years old."
What about you? Are you on your midnight coffee break at the greenhouse? Or are you at home on a Friday night, raging at some stranger you're also trying to stalk.
No, my name is not David, and I've never been to LA. It's Austin, and I live in TX. (Commence with the obvious joke.) So... creepy stalker fail.
@Leehofooks nah i dont waste my time at work spending time on people such as you. I save that for when im bored and need an easy laugh. And thanks for the free laughs too btw. Its people like you that brighten up my day hehehe, long hard day of work some free time spent talking to people who wanna wait 7 years to live in a treehouse lol. Im all for green tech, but seriously some people are just too far its hillarious. and i love how u defend him,, its been hillarious
Do you want big brother controlling the energy supply to your home? i'm not living in a damn tree house......or giant meat house.....you could bar b que it thow.....
This would be rather interesting--I'd imagine it'd be a lot easier to make a kind of technologically integrated house if every thing had natural nerve-like communication abilities.
Cool, I just wish that he went in to more detail on how this would effect the environment and provide some insight in to how many of these houses would be needed to sustain a carbon negative society. I would have loved to know how this could impact the developing world as well.
@POLlyy23 There you go. If you give people the opportunity to check this out first hand, you can win them over. Also, if it was a unique hotel, you could create a sense of chic about it. "I wanna stay in that tree hotel, you know the one they actually grew!"
@bloodwitch013 Yeah, what happens when it gets damaged? I don't want to get house goo on me. What happens if it get's sick? What happens if it gets parasites? Cool idea. Maybe needs a little debate and development.
other people donot eat certain typs of food or use products for political reseans.vegans.there is research to debate the safty of testtube meat or babies or any life forms.of course these things exist and are easily done.we have been using these ideas for succes for awhile.body parts for instance,and cloths.fish farms have modified fish.they are fed coloring agents just so salmon is red.not normal but with tarter sauce most the world dont care.great buisness.
Our thinkers & makers need to keep pushing the envelope. There is nothing inherently wrong with new industries (in response to hysterical comments from psuedo-hippies in Humboldt), especially if they replace wasteful old industries that use extracted raw materials instead of working with nature. This architect may be angling for attention and the bleeding edge, but his visions are provocative, interesting and worth considering. In any case, never trust comments from posters who can not spell.
@charliemchenry so yes replacing bad with good industries is good.assuming anything actually exist in 50yrs to be able to compare bacterial problems cost infrustructure who manufactures houses in future same as now or scientist?anyway sure ,hes great all good.but i think just many contriverses with his views wich will take decades or more to resolve.we have current proven eco friendly ect ways for everything.industry chooses what is best ,not enviormentilist,spell chck on ur timepeace
Trees get sick, have parasites (not counting myriad other creatures that depend and live on them), are easily combustible, don't grow (or live) forever, I could go on...
most people who represent the green movement are wolves in disguise.this guy actualy says lies.ok.fast talk.listen.he made up words.he is trying to sound important but keeps explaining for the layman.he is liying.in california people live in treehouses .100,000$you got that for the tre house?yurt?yuppie .not reality for consumer.this guy is against envirement.bad bad bad
@MrHumbolthippy you keep going on and on about socially acceptable. It's socially acceptable to drag around 2 or more tons of metal powered by fossil fuels and polluting the planet. Socially acceptable has nothing to do with what he is showing. Society Changes. He is showing the Possibility. He's not telling people to go out and buy this now. This is not a TV infomercial.
Furthermore, there are millions of vegetarians seeking testtube meat. They are only vegetarian because of animal cruelty.
@Cradle2Venus yes i agree.i am trying to give that possibility that his ideas will replace worse things.have not specified to many things but i will.yes someone has to envision our future.so lets focus on veg movement.well there are many camps.animal cruelty is a valid reason people are veg or veg. some religious groups think life begins ect debate will come up again.and is valid in defense of testtube meat.[suffer?,have soul?]ect.
@Cradle2Venus To throw in a little support for your last point. I'm not a vegetarian, because I can't be. My body actually needs red meat, or I get sick and weak. I'd love to be able to get what I need without worrying about animal cruelty. I don't really have a problem with killing my food to survive (I don't really see how killing plants is more moral than killing animals), but the industry is often needlessly cruel. That I would love to avoid.
the greater majority of earthlings canot comprehend what he is saying.he is just a salesman.everything he is saying is real and viable but not socially aceptable.we have had testtubebabies for long time,i do tissue culture myself ,big deal.we have enless existing products to cover everything he said,and we are destroying or replacing everyday.third world ghetto gets broadband pa still waitin for any acces.that is reality.now we are saved because he says we can grow bodies in lab then live in thm
well i got 2emails fromcomplainer ,so,am i the only one who notices there are noone but lord of ring followers here?i said this is all bullshit.well politly then,lets break it down.he is creating new industries.always bad.using life forms for industrial need ,bad.im not defending moral or religion but he actually makes fun of religios views.im sure religion and health and safty may have questions.whom are you lecturing?ignorant or highly educated.thre are no positive reviews because your a snob
Good title, but this speech borders on the outrageous. I had to double check that this was actually a TED video, and not one of my comedy channel subscriptions. That's not to say it wasn't interesting though!
fuck yo .you suck.you liar .your only makin new industries and new words ,kudos,sorry im a six grade intelkigence and my hair is still long,but i am a stud if imfollowin at all.your a moron.of course not scamwise yull make million off these yuppies.i work for god.real grower.do you think you said some fancy words ?hmmmmmm ohhh yu suck.pece of shits like you are whats wrong with world yuppi or excuse me yippie.
@ASKaPHYSICIST Well I don't live in a wooden house. Over here in England we like to build our houses out of brick - because we don't have tornados and earthquakes to worry about.
@ASKaPHYSICIST Yes but surely it's still better than it all being tree. True enough though we're a moist country, so fire hazard is less of an issue than america where the heat tends to cause bushfires and such during heatwaves.
@kokofan50 curious how well grower you are.bieng a professional exotic rare grower in northern california redwoods myself,land of ewoks and i can tell you even they are laughin at anyone listening to mr dread
i cant believe the add at the end used Edison as the example when he was against AC power Tesla was the person responsible for the power grid, do they have any idea??
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Hobbits; in fact, I think that houses very much like those of Hobbits would be even better than these houses made of trees: they are above ground but the walls and roof are earth, so there is great insulation, and they would take a lot less time to build (no having to wait years for the trees to grow), but one would still be able to grow all sorts of plants on top of them to give them more structural stability - it already works in Iceland.
Trees die. How long is this tree house supposed to live? What about pests, damage, or disease? I'd be mightily pissed if I waited 7-10 years for my house to grow and then it's invaded by Japanese beetles, got hit by a fungal blight, or sustains irreparable damage from the weather. You can fix a conventional structure immediately. You can't fix a tree. This type of thinking is great if you're writing science fiction, but neither of these ideas will ever be viable on a large scale on Earth.
@JimexJimex Wood that is used for home construction is dried in a kiln to avoid some of the problems wonderbug was talking about. ALL of the problems he mentioned can affect living trees.
A farting house? Really not a good idea...
arjenf 1 week ago
Cylon radars come to mind with his meat house. Creepy.
4bstr4ct10n 2 weeks ago
I love that...no sentient being is harmed
crudhousefull 1 month ago in playlist More videos from TEDtalksDirector
A nice intro, but I wish the substance was more 'meaty' :)
hautepower 2 months ago
@hautepower You can go back to the McCar photo. You know, no one in Stargate Atlantis calls the Hive ships, "Meat Ships."
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your videos are cool
juliacotic 3 months ago
Nature does nothing uselessly.
andreeaweed 4 months ago
Our World would look like this if our governments were headed by scientists and artists. This innovative idea doesn't seem to adhere to the band-aid mending used by short sighted politics.This combats the problem with respect to the environment and human life, rather then petty over-exaggerated variables such as political agenda and monetary limitations.
systemhof80 5 months ago
Great Talk!!! Way to go Mitch!!!
MrGoldtal 5 months ago
The future is here! Way to go Mitch!!!
MrGoldtal 5 months ago
What a doofus idiot fuck. and he gets paid for this. a FUCKING MEAT HOUSE!?
MJapan555 5 months ago
I really loved this professor at NYU. He has awesome look!
His projects are so awesome. It reminds me my childhood of memory because he has divine aura. I wish I could go to NYU to attend his classes because I am sure it would inspire me a lot! I really love his art works as well... Oh... he is so awesome.. I wish I could be in New York to meet with him soon.
3GenerationsKimie 5 months ago
I like how the advert takes up so much of the video it's selected for the thumbnail.
LokiClock 1 year ago
@instereovideos - your current house is built with dead trees.
VAinWI 1 year ago
@VAinWI right, which were carved, treated and set on a concrete foundation. Theres a reason we don't just leave the trees in the ground.
instereovideos 1 year ago
This idea can't work... when the trees start to die your house will come apart.
instereovideos 1 year ago
@instereovideos LOL
SySt3m 1 year ago
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instereovideos 1 year ago
I want a tree home!
TalynCo 1 year ago
good idea but the meat is so stupid i though it was a joke the whole video. I dont think many people would buy these tree homes in developed countries though
treverbettis 1 year ago
I'd hate to see what happens if your house dies.
ZachVMNTX1 1 year ago
wtf, mccar?
Amarynthine 1 year ago
but it sounds VERY useful, if it catches on fire, you can just eat it!
Amarynthine 1 year ago
@MrAdamvesely good luck with flies
Amarynthine 1 year ago
And if you find a hole in the meat house, you can also enjoy it not only live in it. Welcome to 21st Century!
Tiberioxid 1 year ago
Sphincter muscles - for your airtight pleasure.
PoppyCork07 1 year ago
Tree house /village sounds great. ...
098anne 1 year ago
I don't know whether to laugh or be troubled by the meat house. It's sort of like an awkward comedy sketch; just uncomfortable for everyone.
ChrisHollobaugh 1 year ago
the meat house is not a good idea.. ..that house would probably stink in the sun what if it started to decay?
vrshowdown 1 year ago 2
@vrshowdown I think the idea is that it would be a living thing, just as the "tree" house would still be a living thing.
PolyhymnianMuse 1 year ago
Was the meat house a joke?
RiverSiege 1 year ago
This dude's whack!
safapresley 1 year ago
Amazing, BUT trees consume oxygen at night with the photosynthesis, we could die while sleeping, how can they fix that?
masterneme 1 year ago
@masterneme ummmm... Trees consume Carbondioxide and produce oxygen. If anything, you'd get high from all the oxygen.
barkerhasbite 1 year ago
@barkerhasbite @CrazyDragonX
Plants consume oxygen through plant respiration, they only can consume CO2 when there is light, so photosynthesis is possible to transform inorganic materials into "plant food".
masterneme 1 year ago
@masterneme
You fail biology, forever...
CrazyDragonX 1 year ago
@masterneme Plants do photosynthesis at day, a by-product of this process is oxygen. When you remove light out of the equation(light, Co2, H2o) , no photosynthesis is performed.
You are right that plants consume oxygen as well, although trees mostly consume oxygen through their roots. The risk of dying from lack of oxygen is not probable if the roots were to be in soil and not in the bedroom.
Another thing to keep in mind is that plants/trees produce more oxygen then it consumes.
Dumass88 1 year ago
omg I started thinking of the southpark episode where cartman builds a taco bell with stem cells haha
JAZZI393049 1 year ago
Meat house!?!? Waaaaaah!?! And tree houses!!!! Sign me up!
Imagine" welcome to my home! Plz! Don't worry! the sfincter is clean! "
DurexDurpaneu2 1 year ago
I have FINALLY found the ultimate band name: Meathouse.
mindstormsabrewin 1 year ago
The Fab Tree Hab sound awesome, not so sure about the meat house.
Experiment47 1 year ago
if this works so great than why hasn't he grown one?
1schwererziehbar1 1 year ago
is this video an april fools or something?
SSPX3 1 year ago
Id love to buy/move into a house like that
tedoymisojos 1 year ago
If I had a sphincter muscle for a door I'd probably end up making love to my door.
Therefore I want this house.
marsbarz 1 year ago
Malta!
archerrobinhood 1 year ago
i would prefer a tree home. i dont think the meat one smells good.
Gnometower 1 year ago
There`s a problem with information abuse. If a modem records every movement of your machines, they will also get a data sheet of all your interaction with all electrical appliances. How much water do you use, what thing do you use at night or at day? The future will hold surveilance problems.
Mackamadjonny 1 year ago
WOW!!! Thank you for all of these wonderful ideas! I'm sure the best way to understand the work and participate in a deeper more productive dialogue on this subject is at TED.com
Terreform1 1 year ago
This wont work. If the sun is doing all of the work who is going to make the money??
CantWeedThis 1 year ago
sphincter muscles for windows and doors, that really cracked me up^^
Arudoloff 1 year ago
What a pretentious douche.
rwwanon 1 year ago
give him more tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime
pontenfour 1 year ago
I'm completely skeeved out by the meat house, but the tree house sounds cool. It's not even that new of an idea. People have been building and living in turf homes for a very long time. You would have to adapt the premise regionally, but that's to be expected.
Cool dreads, btw.
shiftyjake 1 year ago
wow this is gross and awesome at the same time.
featheredmusic 1 year ago
its America not merica man.
JAgnor420 1 year ago
I live in Canada, would I have to move down south for 6 months out of the year because my house changed color and went bare?
Gwisss 1 year ago
@Gwisss Because a conventional house is covered in leaves year-round, right?
Leehofooks 1 year ago
Probably the shortest TED talk ever published.
I think the ad at the end is longer.
brandonthebuck 1 year ago
"Mitchell Joachim earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors."
Interesting, let's see how it will develop during next years.
eschersky 1 year ago
I'd be terrified with the idea of my home eating me =S
Acronius 1 year ago
Meat house.... lmao... how will I ever not eat it?
JuryDutySummons 1 year ago
just as i started to become interested he said "thank you very much!" =( in which case i became dissapointed
gr4ndhustle 1 year ago
Cool idea but it he didn't address key points.
Repair for instance. Are you supposed to deal with the weather until your roof grow shut
st4ticblu3 1 year ago
wow fucking hippies are fucking stupid,. Who wants to wait 7 years for a house,,,,,,
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 Yeah this guy who went to MIT and Harvard is so fucking stupid!
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks lol well if you want to wait 7 years to live in the house. The house looks so so, but its alot of work for no pay off. Not to mention if it gets bugs, plus being super flammable, and the eventual dying off of the tree. No plant ever lives forever. Only in fairy tales can this shit work. Make houses out of current modern, cheap effective and easy to make materials that dont take 7 years to build.
jwka2001 1 year ago
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@jwka2001"well if you want to wait 7 years to live in the house."
It sometimes takes years to build skyscrapers. Does that mean all the people who live/work there wait around homeless and jobless on the streets during that time?
"Not to mention if it gets bugs"
The homes are insulated (probably better than a conventional house).
"plus being super flammable"
A living tree would be far less flammable than a house made of dry wood.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@jwka2001 "No plant ever lives forever"
And then you're left with... a wooden house! Oh no! Trees live to be hundreds or even thousands of years old. Modern houses are built to last a few decades. What makes more sense?
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks No plant lives forever,, its true. Sure some live for thousands of years, even just a couple decades the tree would of squeezed out any space, doors, windows etc so it would be pointless to live in them. And if u wanna waste ur time growing a tiny house and taking 7 years go ahead. It would be cheaper to just cut down the trees, then replant them like we do now. If it was cost effective, wed be doing it by now.
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 of all the things we do because they are cost effective, most still have to prove whether they contibute to peoples happiness... Growing things does.Iif you refuse to believe it, grow some tomatoes. Then imagine growing a house.
Arudoloff 1 year ago
@Arudoloff i work for a greenhouse we grow 1000 tomatoes alone every year,,lol so i know what growing stuff is all about. If you want to waste 7 years at least for a house that will eventually grow and break the windows due to it crushing them, being able to die due to cold winters, or getting bugs, or diseases by all means live in the tree house. But I like other people will live in houses made from trees that are cut to shape. Its cheaper and better anyways. Thats why we arent living in trees
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 Maybe you should do some research before deciding this guy from MIT doesn't know what he's talking about. And your "wait 7 years" argument is stupid. There's no reason developers can't begin growing a neighborhood of these homes and then sell them later. Most people don't have their homes built specifically for them. Did you sleep in a hotel room or a cardboard box while your home was being built?
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks Then go live in the homes made of trees. There are countless problems these houses will suffer from. Mainly cause they are a living thing. We need to build fast, cheap reliable homes to house the poor, not 'houses' that take 7 years to build, and arent reliable. I'll place a bet with you, in 10 years if we are living(or more than 10%) are living in these tree homes, ill give you 10,000 dollars. But you wont take that bet up cause u know you'll lose.
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 "Then go live in the homes made of trees..." Holy shit. Go do 5 minutes of research, and you'll see this is just a normal house with trees grafted around it.
And no, I don't think 10% of us will be living in these homes in 10 years, just like I don't think 10% of us will be driving solar-powered electric cars in 10 years. Why? Because jackasses like you dismiss any kind of innovation you can't wrap your little brains around right away.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks lol ya its cause of people like me..lol. Its probably because that the sciences havent yet perfected solar cells on cars other than those tiny 1 man cockroaches that go like 20mph lol. The reason why we dont have electric cars, is cause the batteries havent been able to store that much energy. 100 years ago they were saying electric cars are only 20 years away..lol. Untill nano tech we wont have realistic solar powered cars.
jwka2001 1 year ago
@Leehofooks if its such a great idea, why hasnt it taken off. Its such a great idea it clearly wont need government support(i.e. our tax dollars stolen for this shitty idea).People will be lining up to invest, and buy these homes.Why not put some of your hard earned money into this idea.. If its worth it you'll put your money where your mouth is. Me, along with the other people in the 21st century will live in nice houses instead. Go live in a Harry Potter book hahah seriously wtf is with people
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 "if its such a great idea, why hasnt it taken off" You are one ignorant little cretin. People said the same thing about vaccines, human flight, and the steam engine. You sound like Napoleon commenting on the steam ship:
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."
In retrospect, he sounds pretty stupid, doesn't he?
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks we have the tech to make these stupid houses now,, years ago too, and yet why arent we making them, the cost to benifit ratio is way to fucking off. saying your stuff about flight, vaccines is ignorant. We have materials now, that are better, cheaper, and last ALOT longer than trees. Thats why this idea will never work, and is even more pathetic than your argument. But by all means go grow urself a house lol. Go watch Avatar some more hahahaha
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 How old are you? 14? I'm guessing 14... maybe.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks im 27 but looking at ur profile it appears im not the only one who thinks your an idiot. Wow 22 pages of basically people bashing you. So im not the only one who thinks your an idiot. And obviously wont be the last. Have fun in your pathetic life trolling the internet lol.
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 You're 27, and you type things like "urself"? Yeah, I tend to piss of idiots like you so they leave moronic messages on my profile. You know, in the time it took you to look at my profile, you could have done some research on these Terreform houses. But nah... thinking hurts, right?
Have fun with your ignorant life, expressing yourself like a 14 year old.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks hahahah thanks for making me laugh. My 'ignorant life' hahah i happen to be a member of Mensa,, im sure u dont know what that is. Only the top 2% of the population can join. I have a genius level IQ, and I currently make 60k on my greenhouse job while making another 50k-70k per year on side jobs i do for companies,,,ya my life sucks compared to yours. You spend all day trolling the internet on youtube, and probably in your moms basement from the looks of ur video. I so want to be you
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 Having a high IQ doesn't necessarily mean you're not ignorant (but still, I'd expect a Mensa member to know that). You make a decent living, and your life doesn't suck? Cool, dude. But what's that got to do with not being ignorant?
I'd also expect a Mensa Society member to have noticed that those people on my profile tend to think the Earth is 6,000 years old and there were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. (And to spell out the whole word: "y-o-u-r-s-e-l-f" [Not that hard!].)
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks Yes i've noticed that most are religious people on your profile, not all but most. But still the fact that they come to your profile site and not the videos to call you out just shows what a little troll you are. I mean sure a few here or there is fine and all, but you have like 22 pages of this shit..it tends to form a pattern of what kind of a shallow person you are. Sad that you find using urself instead of yourself is some major fault and showing my ignorance etc
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 Hate messages sent to me are a negative reflection of me? Well then I guess every controversial politician, author, and scientist in the world must live in his aunt's "addict" (attic?). Don't you have some frivolous hobby? Video games, maybe? Or stupid horror movies? I don't watch TV or eat junk food or smoke pot. I read a lot and watch videos on YT (mostly about science), and yeah, I tend to piss of fundies and conspiracy theorists (and insecure horticulturists, I guess).
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks All you do is troll youtube, and people bash you on your profile, you have 22 pages of at least half of the posts bashing you. You may be right on some of those arguments who knows, but when you have 22 pages of people calling you names, it tends to form a pattern on your behavior and life. You sit in your moms basement talking trash. Anyways David its been nice talking to you, have fun talking trash to people online since that is the only thing that makes u feel important in life
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 I'd also expect a Mensa Society member to have looked into Terreform before commenting on this video. You'd think such a smart guy, working in a greenhouse, would have a basic concept of pleaching, grafting, and how trees grow anyway, right?
And that a Mensa Society member could come up with something more original than the old "mom's basement" cliche...
By the way, I'm a full-time student with a full-time job, and my name isn't David.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks yes i know all about grafting and cloning etc, i do it alot. I clone hundreds of plants maybe thousand or 2 each year, its not that complicated its pretty easy. I've been around greenhouses/plants for like 20 of my 27 years of life so i know a few things about it. And the 'moms basement' is just a stereotype, it could be an addict, or side room or bedroom, or maybe ur aunts or grandparents house etc. And im sure its david,,, of Shreveport, LA... u dont have to hide it
jwka2001 1 year ago
@jwka2001 I work the night shift, and on my coffee breaks, I spend about 5 minutes responding to the people I've enraged by saying something like "No, the Earth is not 6,000 years old."
What about you? Are you on your midnight coffee break at the greenhouse? Or are you at home on a Friday night, raging at some stranger you're also trying to stalk.
No, my name is not David, and I've never been to LA. It's Austin, and I live in TX. (Commence with the obvious joke.) So... creepy stalker fail.
Leehofooks 1 year ago
@Leehofooks nah i dont waste my time at work spending time on people such as you. I save that for when im bored and need an easy laugh. And thanks for the free laughs too btw. Its people like you that brighten up my day hehehe, long hard day of work some free time spent talking to people who wanna wait 7 years to live in a treehouse lol. Im all for green tech, but seriously some people are just too far its hillarious. and i love how u defend him,, its been hillarious
jwka2001 1 year ago
nice natty dreads
TheBrownTies 1 year ago
meat house? pass. grown treehouse? cool for the backyard maybe, but do you have to water it? how much energy does that take?
Timinator257 1 year ago
he can use my time.
romeoracz 1 year ago
This is where the Tyranids will take off and consume our home planet.
doloppost 1 year ago
Did anyone else think of Christopher Moore's book Fluke when he mentioned sphincter muscles as doors and windows?
SuziePenguin 1 year ago
Why be a smug white man with dreadlocks? Because we can
randikajamai 1 year ago
I would not like my house to have cancer.
I would not like branches growing into my rooms and what about bugs?
I like the idea, but I have many doubts.
Would you kill the tree with poison after the house is ready?
0MoTheG 1 year ago
it would be an interesting novelty
nerdelicious5 1 year ago
Do you want big brother controlling the energy supply to your home? i'm not living in a damn tree house......or giant meat house.....you could bar b que it thow.....
IWashMyOwnBrain 1 year ago
Love the tree-house!
:o)
Also, we love the idea of a hamburger that didn't have to die screaming. Awesome!
ChenStyleJohn 1 year ago
I wonder if and when this idea takes off if they will apply to vehicles..namely spaceships, enter obscure sc-ifi reference here.
LazyOtaku 1 year ago
FEED ME Seymour!
EBurwell 1 year ago
This would be rather interesting--I'd imagine it'd be a lot easier to make a kind of technologically integrated house if every thing had natural nerve-like communication abilities.
againstthebrilliance 1 year ago
Cool, I just wish that he went in to more detail on how this would effect the environment and provide some insight in to how many of these houses would be needed to sustain a carbon negative society. I would have loved to know how this could impact the developing world as well.
Aniwazoa 1 year ago
Living in a avatar movie. sounds awesome! :)
maybe build it as a beach hotel first.
POLlyy23 1 year ago
@POLlyy23 There you go. If you give people the opportunity to check this out first hand, you can win them over. Also, if it was a unique hotel, you could create a sense of chic about it. "I wanna stay in that tree hotel, you know the one they actually grew!"
t3tsuyaguy1 1 year ago
@t3tsuyaguy1 True. but ill pass on the meat house :) i hope i never have to look thru a sfinkter. But thats just my personal oppinion ;)
POLlyy23 1 year ago
awesome
TheGodlessGuitarist 1 year ago
Superb ! loving it!
orroshi 1 year ago
Man, I hope this guy's idea takes root!
uberjim83 1 year ago 32
Church vs house of meat
I think its pretty much guaranteed where everyone will be worshipping from now on...
godlessmessiah 1 year ago 7
Zerg/nightelf stuff?
Tranzine67 1 year ago
This is what we need if we want to survive
LemonLimeLaughter 1 year ago
the plant house seems awesome even if it does take years and years to grow but a meat house sounds gross.
bloodwitch013 1 year ago
@bloodwitch013 Yeah, what happens when it gets damaged? I don't want to get house goo on me. What happens if it get's sick? What happens if it gets parasites? Cool idea. Maybe needs a little debate and development.
t3tsuyaguy1 1 year ago
america bobby!
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
other people donot eat certain typs of food or use products for political reseans.vegans.there is research to debate the safty of testtube meat or babies or any life forms.of course these things exist and are easily done.we have been using these ideas for succes for awhile.body parts for instance,and cloths.fish farms have modified fish.they are fed coloring agents just so salmon is red.not normal but with tarter sauce most the world dont care.great buisness.
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
oh uh happy 4th to whom givith a shit, america bobby!
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
Our thinkers & makers need to keep pushing the envelope. There is nothing inherently wrong with new industries (in response to hysterical comments from psuedo-hippies in Humboldt), especially if they replace wasteful old industries that use extracted raw materials instead of working with nature. This architect may be angling for attention and the bleeding edge, but his visions are provocative, interesting and worth considering. In any case, never trust comments from posters who can not spell.
charliemchenry 1 year ago
@charliemchenry so yes replacing bad with good industries is good.assuming anything actually exist in 50yrs to be able to compare bacterial problems cost infrustructure who manufactures houses in future same as now or scientist?anyway sure ,hes great all good.but i think just many contriverses with his views wich will take decades or more to resolve.we have current proven eco friendly ect ways for everything.industry chooses what is best ,not enviormentilist,spell chck on ur timepeace
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
Love it.
Vortex42 1 year ago
The plant one seems beneficial, the meat one is absolutely retarded...
ebird97 1 year ago
Trees get sick, have parasites (not counting myriad other creatures that depend and live on them), are easily combustible, don't grow (or live) forever, I could go on...
hardcoded 1 year ago
most people who represent the green movement are wolves in disguise.this guy actualy says lies.ok.fast talk.listen.he made up words.he is trying to sound important but keeps explaining for the layman.he is liying.in california people live in treehouses .100,000$you got that for the tre house?yurt?yuppie .not reality for consumer.this guy is against envirement.bad bad bad
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
@MrHumbolthippy you keep going on and on about socially acceptable. It's socially acceptable to drag around 2 or more tons of metal powered by fossil fuels and polluting the planet. Socially acceptable has nothing to do with what he is showing. Society Changes. He is showing the Possibility. He's not telling people to go out and buy this now. This is not a TV infomercial.
Furthermore, there are millions of vegetarians seeking testtube meat. They are only vegetarian because of animal cruelty.
Cradle2Venus 1 year ago
@Cradle2Venus yes i agree.i am trying to give that possibility that his ideas will replace worse things.have not specified to many things but i will.yes someone has to envision our future.so lets focus on veg movement.well there are many camps.animal cruelty is a valid reason people are veg or veg. some religious groups think life begins ect debate will come up again.and is valid in defense of testtube meat.[suffer?,have soul?]ect.
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
@Cradle2Venus To throw in a little support for your last point. I'm not a vegetarian, because I can't be. My body actually needs red meat, or I get sick and weak. I'd love to be able to get what I need without worrying about animal cruelty. I don't really have a problem with killing my food to survive (I don't really see how killing plants is more moral than killing animals), but the industry is often needlessly cruel. That I would love to avoid.
t3tsuyaguy1 1 year ago
the greater majority of earthlings canot comprehend what he is saying.he is just a salesman.everything he is saying is real and viable but not socially aceptable.we have had testtubebabies for long time,i do tissue culture myself ,big deal.we have enless existing products to cover everything he said,and we are destroying or replacing everyday.third world ghetto gets broadband pa still waitin for any acces.that is reality.now we are saved because he says we can grow bodies in lab then live in thm
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
well i got 2emails fromcomplainer ,so,am i the only one who notices there are noone but lord of ring followers here?i said this is all bullshit.well politly then,lets break it down.he is creating new industries.always bad.using life forms for industrial need ,bad.im not defending moral or religion but he actually makes fun of religios views.im sure religion and health and safty may have questions.whom are you lecturing?ignorant or highly educated.thre are no positive reviews because your a snob
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
I'm okay with the houses made of vegetable matter, but the Meat house? Creeeeeeeepy.
ragingbetty1 1 year ago
@ragingbetty1 : Sphincters for doors! lol - Hell - It might work one day, but just imagining it is funny and also quite amusing. ;o)
Vortex42 1 year ago
Good title, but this speech borders on the outrageous. I had to double check that this was actually a TED video, and not one of my comedy channel subscriptions. That's not to say it wasn't interesting though!
JeanKM1 1 year ago
@JeanKM1 YouTube misspelled subscriptions.
JeanKM1 1 year ago
kind of nutty talk, might've been more interesting to get a more detailed and longer talk.
elchafa 1 year ago
why sleep on scrambled eggs? because we can!
why build cars out of wood? because we can!
why use cheese as a lubricant? because we can!
why let our hair accumulate filth for decades and wear it in a matted clump? because we can!
eenkjet 1 year ago 5
@eenkjet ditto.well said aparrently noone liked me cussing him out
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
@eenkjet Wait, you don't use cheese as lubricant?
uberjim83 1 year ago
@eenkjet straw man fallacy alert!
SikhiArt 1 year ago
Why were there no images of _actual_ plant houses? They were all cgi mockups.
angelwhite 1 year ago
fuck yo .you suck.you liar .your only makin new industries and new words ,kudos,sorry im a six grade intelkigence and my hair is still long,but i am a stud if imfollowin at all.your a moron.of course not scamwise yull make million off these yuppies.i work for god.real grower.do you think you said some fancy words ?hmmmmmm ohhh yu suck.pece of shits like you are whats wrong with world yuppi or excuse me yippie.
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
@MrHumbolthippy wat? u mad?
Cssfiend 1 year ago
@MrHumbolthippy My brain can't comprehend your logic.
matics19 1 year ago
@oMLTo coll graphics i comented on you first 2 i am profesional grower and if think this is buoll then yea fuck yuppies says this hippie,peace
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
yeah, fuck this hippie shit!
takigan 1 year ago
I hope this is a joke, especially the meat house.... Anyone that knows anything about biology would know this is a stupid idea.
holyscythe 1 year ago
thumbs up for veggie house!
forgewolf 1 year ago
too bad i dont take this serious
soulsurferjeweet 1 year ago
Too short.
Plant houses aren't a bad idea - well, apart from allergies, fire hazard, and the fact that trees get diseases.
Meat houses are rediculous.
2ndself 1 year ago
@2ndself I think you'll find it's much harder setting fire to a living plant then it is to the dried up wood you find in most american homes.
ASKaPHYSICIST 1 year ago
@ASKaPHYSICIST Well I don't live in a wooden house. Over here in England we like to build our houses out of brick - because we don't have tornados and earthquakes to worry about.
2ndself 1 year ago
@2ndself Still plenty of wood in there, your roof for example. And probably carpets too.
ASKaPHYSICIST 1 year ago
@ASKaPHYSICIST Yes but surely it's still better than it all being tree. True enough though we're a moist country, so fire hazard is less of an issue than america where the heat tends to cause bushfires and such during heatwaves.
2ndself 1 year ago
@2ndself its not a big deal if we use the native plants
kokofan50 1 year ago
@kokofan50 curious how well grower you are.bieng a professional exotic rare grower in northern california redwoods myself,land of ewoks and i can tell you even they are laughin at anyone listening to mr dread
MrHumbolthippy 1 year ago
i cant believe the add at the end used Edison as the example when he was against AC power Tesla was the person responsible for the power grid, do they have any idea??
HomeDistiller 1 year ago 3
trees require water..which will be a scarce resource ... meat.. I hate flies, maggots, buzzards, ...salmonella ..wild hungry animals...lol.
possibly our future will be in underground or underwater cities...though it all depends on how future generations respect each other and this planet.
dangermous1968 1 year ago
What if I get hungry? =S.
BrokenBjartur 1 year ago
Lol wut
all my windows are formed from butt holes?
freezingbeast 1 year ago
Is it just me, or are the TED videos getting shorter and shorter?
StuartLaClair 1 year ago 2
If I had a home with a sphincter, I'd fuck it.
GorgonLuvs8008135 1 year ago
I can bake a gingerbread house in less than a hour
JosephW99 1 year ago
huh?
mber18 1 year ago
i would have wanted an age of socially responsibility and respect for everything around us but i guess that's how me and ibm are different
bunkmasterflex 1 year ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Hobbits; in fact, I think that houses very much like those of Hobbits would be even better than these houses made of trees: they are above ground but the walls and roof are earth, so there is great insulation, and they would take a lot less time to build (no having to wait years for the trees to grow), but one would still be able to grow all sorts of plants on top of them to give them more structural stability - it already works in Iceland.
TheBaroqueAristocrat 1 year ago
Sorry but I can't see myself living like a Hobbit.
GuineaJay 1 year ago
Trees die. How long is this tree house supposed to live? What about pests, damage, or disease? I'd be mightily pissed if I waited 7-10 years for my house to grow and then it's invaded by Japanese beetles, got hit by a fungal blight, or sustains irreparable damage from the weather. You can fix a conventional structure immediately. You can't fix a tree. This type of thinking is great if you're writing science fiction, but neither of these ideas will ever be viable on a large scale on Earth.
wonderbung 1 year ago
@wonderbung O Rly, don't we GROW trees for the wood we use all the time?
It's just a shift of where that stuff is produced.
JimexJimex 1 year ago
@JimexJimex Wood that is used for home construction is dried in a kiln to avoid some of the problems wonderbug was talking about. ALL of the problems he mentioned can affect living trees.
idontcare80 1 year ago
@idontcare80 The same processing methods can be used on-site when the frame of the tree-house finish its growing.
JimexJimex 1 year ago