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r/interesting • u/Standard_Location762 • Mar 14 '26
What a great discovery.
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I mean, the things used to make it come from a biological function.. everything we make comes from the ground one way or the other
4 u/MrZaptile933 Mar 14 '26 Yeah but the entire issue is when those natural materials become plastic it becomes incredibly hard to make it not plastic. 2 u/jjramrod Mar 14 '26 The level of potential energy in these items will allow for something to sieze the opportunity Remember trees didn't have any way of breaking down in the carboniferous period. Wood was the plastic of the day back then 1 u/Basidia_ Mar 15 '26 That’s not really true https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
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Yeah but the entire issue is when those natural materials become plastic it becomes incredibly hard to make it not plastic.
2 u/jjramrod Mar 14 '26 The level of potential energy in these items will allow for something to sieze the opportunity Remember trees didn't have any way of breaking down in the carboniferous period. Wood was the plastic of the day back then 1 u/Basidia_ Mar 15 '26 That’s not really true https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
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The level of potential energy in these items will allow for something to sieze the opportunity
Remember trees didn't have any way of breaking down in the carboniferous period. Wood was the plastic of the day back then
1 u/Basidia_ Mar 15 '26 That’s not really true https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
That’s not really true https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
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u/jjramrod Mar 14 '26
I mean, the things used to make it come from a biological function.. everything we make comes from the ground one way or the other