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"Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and recycling material. That’s just because it hadn’t met the right mushroom yet"
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fungi-discovered-in-the-amazon-will-eat-your-plastic
Wonder if there are any 'by-products' from this..
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If by by-products you mean human hating mushroom men, then yes.
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Coriolus
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I think this is actually awesome. now if they can only find a Styrofoam eating fungus that doesn't turn the stuff into napalm.. 
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Coriolus posted:
"Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and recycling material. That’s just because it hadn’t met the right mushroom yet"
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fungi-discovered-in-the-amazon-will-eat-your-plastic
Wonder if there are any 'by-products' from this..
Methane and growth of the fungus mostly.
Polyurethane is just carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen so there wouldn't be any nasty by-products. 
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Once again the mighty human species doesn't know dick about anything...
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I wonder if this could be used to wipe out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch without unforeseen consequences.
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imaloon1 posted:
Once again the mighty human species doesn't know dick about anything...
It probably evolved n response to all our waste products.
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We need to come up with something more resistant.
We must not lose!
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Eager_Igraine posted:
I wonder if this could be used to wipe out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch without unforeseen consequences.
I was wondering the same exact thing.
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Be a great way to attack modern civilization
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eodoll posted:
imaloon1 posted:
Once again the mighty human species doesn't know dick about anything...
It probably evolved n response to all our waste products.
To quote George Carlin, "Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic".
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Thats not a good thing that is a weapon in the making...kill it...kill it now !!!!
If it is aggressive or could be made aggressive,think of what it could silently do to a target city or even countries electronics.
Anything that wants to eat my motherboard needs to die.(Yes I know MBs aren't polyurethane...alot of wire coatings are.)
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This is really exiting. Now they can mix this with an airborne virus and have an uber weapon to destroy plastic
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Crichton predicted the future!
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And they thought the discovery of plastic was something! Pfft, Mother Nature already knew humans would piss their bed!!
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Elkad posted:
Crichton predicted the future!
Andromeda Strain.
Something like that would totally cripple civilization
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