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What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:
Replying to @yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
The Patch was hypothesized in 1988 and first documented in 1997, by a passing yacht racer. Research on the patch began in earnest in 2009.
Estimates on the size are still nebulous, as it continues to expand and shift. But I doubt anyone in the 1970s was predicting a patch of trash twice the size of Texas would appear in the Pacific Ocean over the next 50 years.
Replying to @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- there’s now scientists working on myco-remediation creating controlled fungi that can eat plastics and polymers. 🤓
Replying to @Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
What happens if this fungi comes in contact with humans full of microplastics?
Replying to @apprehensivecrab1@lemmy.world
Then you get a cleansing and then you go to the er and call yourself a dumbass and then hope to god the intravenous antifungal work.
No, honestly I don’t know but you can buy a syringe of liquid culture that contains a strain of a plastic eating mushroom and the warning on the site is to not store it in a plastic fridge. You could find the plastic pile and then toss a jar of that culture on it and then toss your boat because it’s probably been hit with the liquid culture.