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What does it excrete? I’m curious.
Edit: The bacterium will eventually convert the plastic into carbon dioxide and water. That’s both expected and somewhat disappointing.
Metabolism is just fire but slower IIRC
If I ever become a rapper I’ll be known as slow fire
True, but it also depends on the enzymes capabilities to break things down into their smallest components.
This is so great and so bad at the same time. We’re gonna have to go back to using tar and shit for things we actually want to last. That’s not going to be cheap…
I mean, wood already biodegrades quite readily, yet we are able to make some pretty long lasting things out of it anyway. Having a bacteria that can break down some variety of plastic doesn’t really imply that all plastic things are going to rot away like old fruit.
Arm the site nuke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
Aren’t all humans full of microplastics?
Not just humans, IIRC micro plastics can be found in the most remote parts of the planet such as uninhabited areas of Antarctica.
All humans are also full of bacteria
Also, microplastics
Wait. It’s just bacteria and microplastics all the way down?
yin and yang.
Don’t forget PFAS
Everything is, it has saturated the water cycle and is everywhere the water cycle reaches. (water cycle reaches everywhere)
If we play our cards right, we could have a real-life Andromeda Strain.
