I wouldn't mind a little zombie apocalypse, it would ALSO solve many problems. >mfw I move into a comfy mansion/hotel/whatever after 80% of the population has died off
It probably won't happen. Every other year, there's reports of some new genetically engineered strain of yeast that eats plastic, oil spills, radioactive waste, crusty jizz stains, unrecyclable trash, whatever. It never makes it out into the real world because it's all propaganda by the petrochemical industry to maintain the status quo while giving us hope that things will get better.
>because it's all propaganda by the petrochemical industry to maintain the status quo while giving us hope that things will get better.
Pretty much this. The entire plastic recycling industry is a scam created by petrochemical conglomerates. They were literally the ones that made up the obfuscated recyling symbols (non-recyclable plastics purposely have nearly identical symbols as recyclable ones) so people think every bit of plastic they're throwing in the bin is getting recycled, whereas only 5% of it actually is. Instead of improving recycling technologies or employing existing ones like Japan does, they just spend more money on propaganda (the infographics that tell you what the symbols mean that very few people actually pay attention to).
>like Japan does
Lmao.
In many places plastic is just burnt. This is a per-city thing and even in some places where plastic is separated from burnable trash, it's still burnt because frick you.
t. living in nipland since way too long
Unironically, it's because landfills and recycling centers are huge business. If ordinary people could compost their plastic waste, an American capitalist might lose some money.
It won’t? Fungi are probably pound for pound the most incredible organisms in the world but we’re still a far cry away from harvesting the vast majority of what they can do for our own needs.
I still can't believe they sent this unstable diversity slag in to space, imagine unironically allowing a diversity weirdo to QUITE literally shit up the station and drill holes in it. I hope they all hang their heads in shame.
>Ignoring politics
depends on if you count economics as politics but it does cost money to send things to space and it's not cost-effective to do it out of your own pocket just because it's squeaky clean here on earth. Also, non-0 chance it blows up and everyone blames you for an economic disaster. >
there might be some company a decade from now that you can pay to send trash to space but we literally only have 1 private space company right now so it'll be a while before people cash in on certain niches like that
>It’s calledPestalotiopsis microspore– and it was first discovered in 2011 by a group of students from Yale University. On a research trip in Ecuador, they stumbled across the fungus that can digest and breakdown polyurethane (a type of plastic material).
Unless they engineer a super strain that can process most types of plastic and has an extremely alarming growth rate with little ways to counter it, we're good.
>shrooms on your tv >shrooms in your phone >shrooms in your laptop >shrooms that can eat the packaging of your food
But most likely, this headline is trash and it only works with a very specific kind of plastic that first went through some transformation in negligible quantities.
>man discovers materials that can be easily applied, modified, chemically changed in ways that were only dreamed of before >unlimited potential, from construction purposes to liquid containers to fabric >doesn’t decay as fast as wood, no electrical conductivity like metals >cheap as shit, already a byproduct of oil >used for virtually everything, from food packaging to jettisons in harbours to clothes to paints to small parts in machinery to entire boats >suddenly fungus evolves that feasts on it >no more trash k cool >clothes suddenly become perishable >power tools disintegrate when switched on >warehouses full of “non perishable “ foods like ramen, chips and pasta thought to be stocked for years lose their entire stock within months > cars stop working >buildings collapse >electric fires common as fungus eats the insulation of power wires everywhere >food shortages as the material that helps conserve them along the production chain is now perishable itself
But considering the wide chemical diversity of the range of materials we consider plastic it’s probably a specific plastic as says and none of this will happen
>man discovers materials that can be easily applied, modified, chemically changed in ways that were only dreamed of before >unlimited potential, from construction purposes to liquid containers to fabric >doesn’t decay as fast as wood, no electrical conductivity like metals >cheap as shit, already a byproduct of oil >used for virtually everything, from food packaging to jettisons in harbours to clothes to paints to small parts in machinery to entire boats >suddenly fungus evolves that feasts on it >no more trash k cool >clothes suddenly become perishable >power tools disintegrate when switched on >warehouses full of “non perishable “ foods like ramen, chips and pasta thought to be stocked for years lose their entire stock within months > cars stop working >buildings collapse >electric fires common as fungus eats the insulation of power wires everywhere >food shortages as the material that helps conserve them along the production chain is now perishable itself
But considering the wide chemical diversity of the range of materials we consider plastic it’s probably a specific plastic as says and none of this will happen
>the last thing you want on all your household items is someone's foot fungæs >but as it turns out, that might be what you gæt
I hope this one's real, it would solve so many problems. Fungiculture is 100% the way forward for humanity.
The problem is if it decides to kill us all instead and engineers a human cordyceps strain
I wouldn't mind a little zombie apocalypse, it would ALSO solve many problems.
>mfw I move into a comfy mansion/hotel/whatever after 80% of the population has died off
You'll be part of that 80%.
You're wrong.
It probably won't happen. Every other year, there's reports of some new genetically engineered strain of yeast that eats plastic, oil spills, radioactive waste, crusty jizz stains, unrecyclable trash, whatever. It never makes it out into the real world because it's all propaganda by the petrochemical industry to maintain the status quo while giving us hope that things will get better.
>because it's all propaganda by the petrochemical industry to maintain the status quo while giving us hope that things will get better.
Pretty much this. The entire plastic recycling industry is a scam created by petrochemical conglomerates. They were literally the ones that made up the obfuscated recyling symbols (non-recyclable plastics purposely have nearly identical symbols as recyclable ones) so people think every bit of plastic they're throwing in the bin is getting recycled, whereas only 5% of it actually is. Instead of improving recycling technologies or employing existing ones like Japan does, they just spend more money on propaganda (the infographics that tell you what the symbols mean that very few people actually pay attention to).
But hey! It makes consumers feel better!
>like Japan does
Lmao.
In many places plastic is just burnt. This is a per-city thing and even in some places where plastic is separated from burnable trash, it's still burnt because frick you.
t. living in nipland since way too long
>incel reported me because he got laughed at
lmao. gonna cry some more?
I once made a misinformed post that was genuine and everyone called me a troll.
wait don't we all have microplastics in our brain/bloodstream?
yeah you tell him that moron keeps thinking he’s trolling le chuddies
now that's a meme i haven't seen in a long time. our 2020 oldgay incel friend is probably seeing this for the first time
See
Nta but wut?
>specifies "edible" mushroom
Is the implication that we should eat the microplastics mushrooms? Because I think that's how this will go wrong.
you will eat the plastic and you will be happy.
THERE IS PLASTIC IN MY BLOOD THERE IS PLASTIC IN MY BLOOD THERE IS PLASTIC IN MY BLOOD
t. schwabman
The same shroom is psychoactive and you now have a Psilocybin epidemic with people growing them fricking everywhere and developing psychosis.
This was found like a decade ago, i remember reading about it in high school.
Nothing has happened with it yet.
I've been hearing about worms/maggots/bacteria that eat plastic for decades. Nothing has apparently come out of it.
Unironically, it's because landfills and recycling centers are huge business. If ordinary people could compost their plastic waste, an American capitalist might lose some money.
Dear G-d, that sounds incredibly antisemitic.
you're not as funny as you think you are
seething
>seething
yeah you pretty much have to be to always crying about israelites 24/7, especially in threads where no one is talking about them first
cry
your tears mean nothing
Pointing out israelites and their tricks is always funny anon.
>morons acting like this would grey goo everything
>not that it just means polyurethane could be composted
This. It's like expecting regular mushrooms to eat your house because mushrooms can grow on wood.
uhh.... bro...?
>mfw my house is feeding me
>Unless you rent and don't like your landlord
How much do blocks cost, generally?
>How much do blocks cost
Make your own. Spores are dirt cheap.
Good reminder that fungi owns this earth and if it had a mind to could literally wipe us all out
maybe 100 years ago, now we came up with anti-fungals that can wipe them out in 8 days or you get your money back.
this image doesn't hold up to the most minute of scrutiny
just letting you know these are fake
Mycelial tendrils typed these posts
not my problem
Dumb, just compact the trash and shoot it down a volcano
>insult Vulcan
>live in fear of being eaten
It won’t? Fungi are probably pound for pound the most incredible organisms in the world but we’re still a far cry away from harvesting the vast majority of what they can do for our own needs.
Kek
I mean if you've read Greek Mythology, Vulkan is pretty used to being insulted.
Not anymore. If anyone insults him I'll eat them.
There is literally no reason for us not to start sending trash to the sun periodically. We have the technology.
Shooting trash into space always had disastrous consequences
I still can't believe they sent this unstable diversity slag in to space, imagine unironically allowing a diversity weirdo to QUITE literally shit up the station and drill holes in it. I hope they all hang their heads in shame.
Qrd?
Just dump it in a desert no one cares about.
This, can someone with a better understanding explain why space is not an option? Ignoring politics
>Ignoring politics
depends on if you count economics as politics but it does cost money to send things to space and it's not cost-effective to do it out of your own pocket just because it's squeaky clean here on earth. Also, non-0 chance it blows up and everyone blames you for an economic disaster.
>
there might be some company a decade from now that you can pay to send trash to space but we literally only have 1 private space company right now so it'll be a while before people cash in on certain niches like that
>It’s calledPestalotiopsis microspore– and it was first discovered in 2011 by a group of students from Yale University. On a research trip in Ecuador, they stumbled across the fungus that can digest and breakdown polyurethane (a type of plastic material).
Unless they engineer a super strain that can process most types of plastic and has an extremely alarming growth rate with little ways to counter it, we're good.
>shrooms on your tv
>shrooms in your phone
>shrooms in your laptop
>shrooms that can eat the packaging of your food
But most likely, this headline is trash and it only works with a very specific kind of plastic that first went through some transformation in negligible quantities.
>man discovers materials that can be easily applied, modified, chemically changed in ways that were only dreamed of before
>unlimited potential, from construction purposes to liquid containers to fabric
>doesn’t decay as fast as wood, no electrical conductivity like metals
>cheap as shit, already a byproduct of oil
>used for virtually everything, from food packaging to jettisons in harbours to clothes to paints to small parts in machinery to entire boats
>suddenly fungus evolves that feasts on it
>no more trash k cool
>clothes suddenly become perishable
>power tools disintegrate when switched on
>warehouses full of “non perishable “ foods like ramen, chips and pasta thought to be stocked for years lose their entire stock within months
> cars stop working
>buildings collapse
>electric fires common as fungus eats the insulation of power wires everywhere
>food shortages as the material that helps conserve them along the production chain is now perishable itself
But considering the wide chemical diversity of the range of materials we consider plastic it’s probably a specific plastic as says and none of this will happen
cool idea for a book though.
Anon, we used wood for millennia and despite that people still found ways to keep the rot at bay for at least a century if not more sometimes.
>the last thing you want on all your household items is someone's foot fungæs
>but as it turns out, that might be what you gæt
depends on the plastic and if ecoprotesters are smart enough to bioengineer them to oils for ecoterrorism