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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The molecule is called lignin. And yes, there was a good 60 million years before that particular problem was cracked.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Next is plastics

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First, we bio-engineer bacteria and fungi to prefer plastic as food.

Second, these bacteria become a serious endopathogen in the human body while scavenging our precious bodily microplastics.

Third, we engineer a bacteriophage to attack the bacteria in our brains.

Fourth…

The whole human comedy just keeps going and going

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around the gorillas simply freeze to death

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly the reference I thought of reading this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...