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PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So when I poop the carbon butter out, how long does it take to decompose? Because unless we make one of those nuclear waste containment salt bunkers for all. the butter carbon poop this kinda seems like a dumb idea.

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Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
About as long as meat, since that is also made from carbon.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or butter.
  
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can see why some people might conflate Carbon Monomers and Carbon Polymer Chains with plastics, because thats what plastics are after all, but it’s also the basic building block for almost all organic chemistry including proteins, fats (lipids), sugars, alcohols, and sugar alcohols (totally different thing from sugar and alcohol btw). Carbon can even form compounds with Ammonia, such as Carbamides like Urea which can be extracted from Uric Acid using Sodium and then used as agriculture grade fertilizers.

It’s why we’re called Carbon Based Lifeforms.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Atoms are atoms. All they are doing here is artificially creating fat molecules rather than getting them from the environment so the decomposing time is not affected.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yup, should be equivalent to biologically created butter.
  
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