Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://futurism.com/the-byte/plastic-eating-fungus-pacific-garbage-patch
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Submission Statement: Plastic-Eating fungus was found feasting on the Great Pacfic Garbage Patch. It is interesting to see whether or not this fungus can additionally deal with the microplastic problem
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they’re all female? Does somebody go out into the park and pull up the dinosaurs’ skirts?
Henry Wu: We control their chromosomes. It’s really not that difficult. All vertebrate embryos are inherently female anyway, they just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male. We simply deny them that.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Deny them that?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you’re attempting simply is… it’s not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is.
John Hammond: [sardonically] There it is.
Henry Wu: You’re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No. I’m, I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way.
Oh! I remember this story! Physicist guy is at a bar and some dude comes in claiming he’s from the future and that physicist guy needs to avoid dating the hot chick because their child becomes an bio-engineering prodigy who develops this bacteria that eats oil spills, only when released into the wild after extensive testing it turns out that completely by surprise this bacteria prefers plankton to oil any day of the week and within months the oceans are dying and the land-bound ecosystems are following in their wake.
So physicist guy resolves not to marry the hot chick, and after future guy leaves we find that hot chick actually has an identical twin sister who he goes home with that night, but physicist can never tell them apart soooo …
What does the byproducts does the fungus release from eating the plastic?
so, next step is gonna be “fungus pills for your testicles” with a guaranteed 100% microplastic removal rate?