• @[email protected]
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    295 months ago

    So like where do they put it? Do they break it down into non metal, does it get placed elsewhere, or leech back into the soil from their corpse?

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      315 months ago

      They accumulate it in a specific organ, but they aren’t magical alchemy machines. It stays in their bodies until they die, then they decompose and it goes back into the ground.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        185 months ago

        they aren’t magical alchemy machines

        Biggest disappointment of this week.

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          55 months ago

          Yeah, unless you’re going around and picking up all the tiny little bugs, you’re not really doing anything to fix the pollution…

      • oce 🐆
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        75 months ago

        Need a new survival craft game where you can tame isopods to collect precious metals.

  • @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    While isopods can sequester heavy metals within their bodies, this is a temporary solution. Upon their death and decomposition, the heavy metals are released back into the soil, so they do not permanently remove these contaminants from the environment.

  • FuglyDuck
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    135 months ago

    You just know some weirdo millionaire is gonna try and train them to go eat heavy metal and shit someplace useful.

    And I’m not even mad, probably the most environmentally friendly mining operation…

    • @TexasDrunk
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      35 months ago

      I don’t recommend anyone buy any of them, but one of the books (or possibly short stories? It’s been a while) in the Ender series by OSC kind of touches on that.

  • Codex
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    105 months ago

    You shouldn’t eat precious minerals little loot bug!

  • @AngryCommieKender
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    65 months ago

    Are isopods the scientific name for pill bugs, aka roly-polies?

    • MeatPilot
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      Isopod (Isopoda) is the order they are in.

      Armadillidium vulgare is a common species. But there are probably hundreds of species that share the same nickname because most people don’t know the differences.

  • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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    25 months ago

    So it’s the isopods’ fault that the band sold out. They were much cooler when they were underground.