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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can't wait for the pandemic of plastic eating fungus infecting the human race and living on the micro plastic in our testicles.
Or, like, all medical tools becoming impossible to package and ship cause of this fungus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Or just spreading outside of the garbage patch and getting into a city. Suddenly everywhere there's plastic coated electric wiring becomes a fire hazard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe just the second one. Or neither.

[–] Tyfud 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It can survive in salt water, but probably not our bloodstream when we're making antibodies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've heard the reason hot blooded animals evolved is because they're resistant to fungal infections unlike cold blooded animals