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kater posted:don’t farmers like just use plastic sheets for whatever reason and then till it all into soil? worrying about tiny poop plastic seems like it is skipping a few steps. They have machines now to retrieve black plastic mulch and drip irrigation tubes after harvest (mostly). What happens to the reels of deteriorating plastic thrown into dumpsters is left as an exercise for the reader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LFEjy1FcBc Which reminds me, I haven't heard the term "plasticulture" for a while. Time for a little Googling to see where we're at with growing our food in and under plastic all the time. CODChimera posted:i still think there's a decent chance that the microplastics end up helping us get outta this jam Behold the Prophet! Biodegradable plastic mulch (a.k.a. accelerated microplastic producing technology) will save us from climate change! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5EPaaVpfY    edit: okay, maybe I'm being a little harsh here jumping to conclusions that this is the usual starch and polymer matrix bullshit: UCONN posted:BDM must be 90% biodegraded into carbon and water within two years of being tilled into the soil, the remaining 10% is a microbial biomass. Maybe they've got something good going here but you could drive a tractor through some of those weasel words. Hexigrammus has issued a correction as of 07:01 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A
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Jan 6, 2023 06:58
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microplastics are kosher/ halal, right? asking for friends.
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Jan 6, 2023 07:48
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You'll never guess what RO membranes are made of!
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Jan 6, 2023 10:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0lq6ggMk8
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Jan 6, 2023 14:37
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Pidgin Englishman posted:You'll never guess what RO membranes are made of! Plastic in da membrane! Plastic in da brain!
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Jan 6, 2023 17:44
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kater posted:don’t farmers like just use plastic sheets for whatever reason and then till it all into soil? worrying about tiny poop plastic seems like it is skipping a few steps. I think that's one vector for it getting into the food chain. They use black plastic sheets to suppress weed growth and then just till it into the soil when they're done rather than properly disposing of it.
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Jan 6, 2023 21:01
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microplastics [leaching] in[to] the water [table] are bimbofying the freakin' and i'm here for it! 
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Jan 7, 2023 07:46
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*bdimbofying
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Jan 7, 2023 07:49
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while microplastics harm most forms of life it turns out we just gave tardigrades boulders to push around and get swole
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Jan 7, 2023 07:58
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Last night I had a dream that I being chased by the Terminator but it was raining microplastics and the microplastics got all over him and into his liquid metal and hosed him right up so I got away
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Jan 7, 2023 16:30
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there's room for a movie about tardigrades and other micro-organisms and their habitat being invaded by inexplicable large colorful rocks spongebob squarepants but tiny
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Jan 7, 2023 16:41
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Tardibob Gradetrousers
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Jan 7, 2023 17:33
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Jan 7, 2023 20:10
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Gravid Topiary posted:i don't think we've worried about clouds in at least a month lol that owns
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Jan 7, 2023 20:39
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I bet the ai used that first article to cite plastic in the water and air, but didn't "intend" to use it to self-contradict Oh well not gonna read anyway
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Jan 7, 2023 21:08
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the AI is also a loving idiot for many other reasons, but now I'm mad about bioplastics
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Jan 7, 2023 22:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyW3P-bsFY taste the microplastics in your blood
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Jan 8, 2023 02:00
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jetz0r posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyW3P-bsFY is that also what makes you feel like you pissed yourself when they inject you with mri contrast or whatever that poo poo is
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Jan 8, 2023 02:03
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i cant wait till society breaks down so future humans can draw crude charcoal maps littered with environmental disaster zones. Here be firenados
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Jan 8, 2023 03:06
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Janitor Ludwich IV posted:i cant wait till society breaks down so future humans can draw crude charcoal maps littered with environmental disaster zones. Here be firenados I really wonder what post-industrial humanity will look like, and how homo sapiens (and whatever else is left) will "evolve" given tens and hundreds of millenia.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:13
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Jan 8, 2023 04:15
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Microbdlastics
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Jan 8, 2023 04:16
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just looks like bicycles to me
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Jan 8, 2023 04:21
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https://news.yahoo.com/great-salt-lake-track-disappear-004427524.html
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Jan 8, 2023 04:21
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Cuttlefush posted:just looks like bicycles to me Bicyclegate is verboten
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Jan 8, 2023 04:27
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A goldie oldie. https://www.floodmap.net/ We're on track so far for 1 metre sea level rise every 10 years. You can punch in 3 or 4 metres and have a look at your new surroundings.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:29
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BCR posted:A goldie oldie.  worth it
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Jan 8, 2023 04:32
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A world just absolutely filled to the brim of every possible sort of industrial contaminant pervading every part of the biosphere, where the vast majority of the planet's fauna and flora disappeared. The thing people keep forgetting about geological timescales and the mark we'll leave permanently on this planet. Maybe you'll even endeavor to leave no trace at all. Imagine, a hundred million years from now, imagine that you are a scientist of this planet's next dominant species. You discover that this planet once held intelligent life, what they did, what they left behind, and possibly even what mistakes we did along the way.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:33
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Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humanity? [...] In addition, our work also opened up the speculative possibility that some planets might have fossil-fuel-driven cycles of civilization building and collapse. If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they trigger can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels. These low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the conditions needed for making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place. In this way, a civilization and its demise might sow the seed for new civilizations in the future. [...] edit: I hate doing quote spams so I'm gonna just do this Hubbert has issued a correction as of 04:39 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Jan 8, 2023 04:35
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BCR posted:We're on track so far for 1 metre sea level rise every 10 years. Do you have a source for that? It would be a massive addition to the “worst than expected” pile.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:39
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Hubbert posted:Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humanity? I've spent a ton of time pondering this because honestly, fossil records suck poo poo and like gently caress we havent explored really any of the ocean. Coulda been a whole loving intelligent water based civilization and we'd never know.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:40
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we're on track for 10 metres sea level rise every 1 year
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Jan 8, 2023 04:41
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of collapse struggles.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:41
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Hubbert posted:I really wonder what post-industrial humanity will look like, and how homo sapiens (and whatever else is left) will "evolve" given tens and hundreds of millenia. 
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Jan 8, 2023 04:44
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i dunno you can't really exploit fossil fuels underwater, from scratch. i wonder if it was just dumb luck that no industrial civilisation emerged during the last two interglacials. fully modern humans just dicking around and missing two chances to blow the earth up. what a waste of time.
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Jan 8, 2023 04:45
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silicone thrills posted:I've spent a ton of time pondering this because honestly, fossil records suck poo poo and like gently caress we havent explored really any of the ocean. Coulda been a whole loving intelligent water based civilization and we'd never know. they're still there and the source of the uap
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Jan 8, 2023 04:47
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Hubbert posted:Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humanity? Those Fracking Toasters!!!
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Jan 8, 2023 05:21
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I wanna join the Kanga Rat Murder Society. sounds cool af
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Hubbert posted:I really wonder what post-industrial humanity will look like, and how homo sapiens (and whatever else is left) will "evolve" given tens and hundreds of millenia. Someone a page or so back posted those "world's most dangerous roads" docos that give a really cool look at some extremely isolated places, and honestly they're probably a pretty good indicator of what it could be like.
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