Cool, I want a racecar
PLASTICMAXXING
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P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Unfortunately, the machine only gives you the reverse of what you type into it.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 week ago
So a racecar?
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just donate plasma. Works great, gives some other schmuck your plastic.
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I’m still waiting for nature to figure out how to process plastics and bring down most of the world’s infrastructure with it. But I’m not qualified to actually know if this is even possible
janus2@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I’m vaguely qualified (biochem degree) to say it’s probably possible
that being said there’s just a lot of stuff in nature easier to eat than plastic so if some kind of plasticphagic microbe starts causing issues it’ll likely be somewhere otherwise very inhospitable, like near the poles or in space, where there’s not much else in the way of metabolizable carbon sources
which, lol. imagine going on an Antarctic or space mission and your fucking PPE starts fermenting lmao good luck
or the ocean might become so horribly poisinous that everything dies and after microbes eat all the dead biomass and then each other, then they start eating the plastic 😬
GTG3000@programming.dev 1 week ago
There’s fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there’s not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It’s slow.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Maybe teach that fungus how to photosynthesize.
Or cell scale fusion.
Tinidril@midwest.social 1 week ago
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If I remember correctly it is a real concern and also part of why developing a bacteria that can break down plastic is very dangerous (not just because it could degrade our tools and infrastructure, but also because it will release literally megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere)
Fyi, in the past there was nothing in nature to break down trees (lignin) and it actually was a problem as they would literally pile up and essentially be the same problem we have today with plastic (ironically it caused global cooling) thorogood.co.uk/treevolution-how-trees-came-first…
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I thought it already had, I swear I rember some scientists finding or creating something, bacteria fungus or something that processes some polymers and they where tryna get ot to out and eat plastic ig so they can put it in landfills everywhere.
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Isn’t plastic basically biologically inert? So unless it is physically blocking something shouldn’t we have seen adverse effects if it actually was dangerous? Or maybe health problems just haven’t been associated with it yet. I think with lead it was obvious pretty quickly. I am a dumbass tho, so maybe someone smarter can correct me.
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Plastic is mimicking certain hormones and I’m suspecting that the recent rise in cancer rates is linked to plastic intake.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
There is different health implications connected to microplastics like infertility and cardiovascular diseases, although the connections are not quite understood yet. The amount of microplastics in the human body is very alarming though. A study with brain samples found 0.5w% of plastics, which corresponds to roughly 6g of plastic in a brain. That’s a credit card’s worth of plastic.
This article should give some overview over different findings and implications:
nebulaone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Interesting. I had only heard about how it “MAY” be harmful before, which means nothing.
Danke für die Korrektur.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
The water surrounding DuPont plants manufacturing PFOA-based materials was contaminated with those plastics. A local farmer videotaped his cows develop ulcers, grow tumors, and eventually wither and die. He constantly insisted that something was in the water that was killing his cows. Those same chemicals are now pervasive everywhere, in everyone’s bodies to some extent. It is 100% accurate to say these chemical compounds will kill you longterm.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 week ago
That’s very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.
Dupont wasn’t dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.
janus2@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
plastic can be oversimplified into “usually biologically inert molecule chains” (polymers) held together by “usually NOT biologically inert accessory molecules” (plasticizers, fillers, etc.)
BPA is a pretty well-known “fucks you up” plasticizer, hence it being banned for some applications and “BPA-free” marketing taking off (fun fact we’re still figuring out how badly BPA replacements, most being very similar molecules, are fucking us up and to what extent)
ulterno@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yeah, probably just extra weight that interferes with the speed of your cells doing their job.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah it’ll be like the machine that you find in museums where you put in a quarter and get an injection molded toy hot out of the mold. You just hook your arm up to an IV and it starts extracting your blood and then when it gets enough of the plastic it melts it and pushes it into the mold and spits out a little toy dinosaur.
ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
…and you will be so happy for a few moments before you realize the machine never returned you back all your blood. You realize the machine never intended to give it back as you slowly fade into eternal slumber.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 week ago
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 1 week ago
The action man toy who has physically merged with my brain says you’ll never get him
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Bro I just 3D printed a model of my dick from the plastic in my blood
starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ah i see, you are living mostly plastic free
gotta make do with the little material you have
/jk im sure you have a palm tree there
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Animals and environment - get fucked, losers!
/s (or whatever this horror is)
shath@hexbear.net 1 week ago
da brain spoon
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
You can download a car… but are you allowed to “steel” (get for free) the filament???
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 days ago
People are freaking out that there is a credit card worth of microplastics in our brains but I’m just paying for things by putting my forehead on the EFTPOS machine and wondering what the limit is.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How about a whimsical little vampire finger puppet? Grr… arrg…
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I want them to 3D print a neat little Star Wars starship miniature out of mine. Something obscure like a Kimogila.
Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is a post about college loans lmao
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Free 3D printing filament
Chefdano3@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Blood Benchy Boat.
Birch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Blood benchies for the blood god!