• @[email protected]
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    379 months ago

    Can’t wait for the pandemic of plastic eating fungus infecting the human race and living on the micro plastic in our testicles.
    Or, like, all medical tools becoming impossible to package and ship cause of this fungus.

    • JayTreeman
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      79 months ago

      Or just spreading outside of the garbage patch and getting into a city. Suddenly everywhere there’s plastic coated electric wiring becomes a fire hazard.

    • jackeryjoo
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      9 months ago

      It can survive in salt water, but probably not our bloodstream when we’re making antibodies

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        I’ve heard the reason hot blooded animals evolved is because they’re resistant to fungal infections unlike cold blooded animals

  • @just_another_person
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    9 months ago

    P. album is capable of mineralizating UV-treated polyethylene (PE) into CO2.

    Well, FUCK!

    • @[email protected]
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      109 months ago

      First I was like “that sounds really good actually” but turning it into CO2 probably isnt good news

      • threelonmusketeers
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        19 months ago

        Might it be better than sticking around is plastic for thousands of years? I don’t know.