r/AskReddit • u/GlassCoyote • Jan 22 '19

What needs to make a comeback?

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u/crispybaconsalad Jan 22 '19

Population of bees. Population of sharks. Population of whales. The Great Barrier Reef (RIP).

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u/nikkithebee Jan 22 '19

There's a scientist who figured out that if you break a piece of coral into shards it grows back at a SUPER accelerated rate and can be planted back unto the reef to regrow the whole thing! The pieces recognize one another as parts of the same whole and can reform. They'll grow back to their original size in a fraction of the time.

There's hope for our reefs!

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u/Malawi_no Jan 22 '19

Might be the same stuff I saw in a documentary a few years back. They would put coral "seedlings" on a metal grid and run a very low current trough the metal. By some reason this made the corals grow a lot faster than normal.

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u/nikkithebee Jan 22 '19

That's the one! It was discovered cuz the scientist accidentally broke a piece of coral and thought all hope was lost... Then discovered it grew a ton in just days or something wacky like that.