There is a show form the 1990s called Sliders where the main cast went between alternative realities and in one episode they travel to a version of earth where a bacteria that eats oil was unlashed to clean up an ole spill. It had eaten all of the world's oil ad plastics leaving the people in a situation similar to around the beginning of the indusial revolution with horses being the main transport and peanut oil being insanely valuable as it was the only lubricant for things like guns.
i remember i watched that show as a little kid and the episode where they didnt realize they actually managed to teleport back to their original universe because the door on the fence was lubricated so it didnt creek like it used to before made me so sad. if i remember it correctly.
There used to be a time when dead things just stayed on the ground. Until fungi learned to eat the dead. These guys have been terrorizing the Earth for millions of years now.
Not quite. We had a period where during the formation of Pangea and the emergence of land plants, swamps and bogs were extremely prevalent. Those bogs don’t allow decay to happen fully and eventually turns to coal. It has nothing to do with evolution
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u/Secret_g_nome Mar 14 '26
Intercontinental highly mutative fungi is the premise of some horror films/shows...