Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be...

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We all have plastic in our balls so apparently we’re on our way to making some kind of plastic like form

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plastic is stored in the balls

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    • Irremarkable@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Grandparents had lead in the brain, I got plastic in my balls

      Wonder what's next

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    • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I never tire of this gag

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  • downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it's pushing the pee out

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  • EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently also in the penis

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There technically has always been natural plastic. Polymers. Rubber is an obvious one. But chitin, DNA, silk, sulfer can become plastic, etc are all polymers.

  “Achully-ness” aside. It would be wild to find a plastic based insect. It would probably finally unite all of humanity against a singular cause. I doubt we have enough bombs though.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are sea snails living near volcanic vents that metabolize the extra iron into shells and plating. I expect we’ll see a similar adaptation at some point. Simple organisms issuing plastic in some sort of process that toughens their shells. If left unchecked we may see an evolutionary leap as more things adapt, and a die off as plastic becomes a finite resource. Future generations may argue the merits of artificially supporting the microplastic ecosystem in the same vein that we argue about reducing it.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree. It’s bound to happen, life tends to take advantage of any situation available.

      You’ve got an interesting idea regarding future generations. I can totally see that happing. Nice thought

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      magcargo real???

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    • tjsauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fascinating premise for a game or movie

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  • downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Attachment: fedia.io ↗

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have to ask, what’s the point of a blank reply?

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• idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a perfect shower thought, thank you

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Won’t be long now until we are plastic based life forms.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering everyone’s sperm is bathing in plastic rn, who knows lol.

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• anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of this short sci fi story I just recently listened to on a podcast.

  The Plastic People

  That’s the story in text. If you want to hear it read to you, it’s CZM Book Club: The Plastic People by Tobias Buckell out on 23 Dec 2023.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of Code of the Lifemaker, where mechanical life evolves on Titan. Seemed oddly plausible when I read it, but it’s been 20+ years. LOL, maybe it was stupid.

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love CZM and everyone involved!

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    • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same! I originally just tried to limit myself to BtB, but then I listened to ICHH to learn about the Unicorn Ranch, and I ended up learning about so many other topics. Then I kept seeing interesting CPWDCS, so now I listen to some of those.

      They turn out so much great content every week, and ICHH has really helped me to better understand more people and issues than I ever would have been able to on my own.

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• dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And discovering that plastic surgeons somehow came first…

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no way plastic based life forms don’t emerge from one of the garbage patches, given enough time.

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There's a short story by Ted Chiang called Exhalation which explores an idea somewhat like this. I highly recommend it.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Toy Story 5: After the Apokalypse

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is like what I’ve been saying, how do we know the microplastics are bad for us? Could be our final form…

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It might be the answer we’ve been looking for!

    Probably not.

    But maybe!

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• Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you for not just trying to redefine basic words as a post.

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  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are pretty much inert because they’re ignored by most proteins and are largely stable enought to resist chemical damage (oxydation is the big one). This is the reason we make so much of them, they’re useful as containers and it’s cheaper to make new containers rather than reuse the old ones.

    That being said, it could happen that some biological processes start using plastic as an energy source and/or process it for parts. This is already done in labs with plastic eating bacteria today, where the bacteria produces enzymes capable of breaking the molecular bonds in some plastics.

    The main factor is that there is considerably less plastic readily available than there is carbon dioxide, because the carbon dioxide is just there, but in a hypothetical future where the earth is covered in several inches of plastic, chances are that single cell organisms that thrive off of plastic could realistically evolve.

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• BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now would be a good time to start watching Doctor Who (2005) if you haven’t yet 😂

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I watched through Peter Capaldi, and quite a few of Jodie Whittaker, if not most.

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