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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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"Nature finds a way" -- Dr. Ian Malcolm
The plastic simply was a too nice of an energy source to be left aside by microorganisms. There are microorganisms for basically any energy source the world provides. There are bacteria that live on undersea volcanoes feasting on acids and carbon dioxide, so a fungus eating plastic is no actual surprise.
Unless you include the “uh” in that quote I can’t hear Jeff Goldblum say it, and that’s a trigger I didn’t know it had. So, thanks?
Also he said life, not nature.
"Life, uh, not nature" doesn't have the same ring to it
It also impresses me that there’s bacteria eating metal under the sea.