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by bawolff 1344 days ago
I feel like i would rather have the airport full of plants.

Airports are stresful and noisey. Imagine how calming it would be with greenery all over the place absorbing the noise.

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They do not have to be noisy. Gardermoen is not noisy, Arlanda is not noisy, Copenhagen is not noisy. They just need to be designed deliberately to be quiet. Adding green plants won't make it much quieter unless you plant huge hedges indoors.
Yes, with garbage, ripped leaves, contraband stashed(people afraid and backing out), people hiding in bushes, bombs in the trees, and so on.

I guess it could be in some inaccessible way, greenery 20 feet up, or behind baracades with alarms.

But humanity is humanity, and part of airport security is probably the above.

(Also, according to a movie I watched, the next pandemic will come from plants, so we will have to kill them all, you see...)

None of that is likely to happen in the airports I occasionally visit.