• @towerful
    link
    English
    4024 days 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
      link
      fedilink
      724 days 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.

    • finley
      link
      fedilink
      English
      524 days ago

      Maybe just the second one. Or neither.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      4
      edit-2
      24 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        224 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    23
    edit-2
    24 days ago

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

    Well, FUCK!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1024 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        121 days ago

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