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On trees... (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Weren't there like, several millions of years where trees evolved but nothing had come yet to break down wood, so like, generations of dead forest just fell on top of each other until some fungus was like "that looks yummy"?

[–] ryedaft 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The molecule is called lignin. And yes, there was a good 60 million years before that particular problem was cracked.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Next is plastics

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

First, we bio-engineer bacteria and fungi to prefer plastic as food.

Second, these bacteria become a serious endopathogen in the human body while scavenging our precious bodily microplastics.

Third, we engineer a bacteriophage to attack the bacteria in our brains.

Fourth…

The whole human comedy just keeps going and going

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around the gorillas simply freeze to death

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Exactly the reference I thought of reading this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, that is how we got coal.