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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

    This study released last year based on samples from cadavers suggests there’s enough in your brain to make a plastic spoon

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      “this is not what we meant by brain plasticity”

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      Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

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        Turn my micro plastics into one of the old mc donalds coke spoons when I die and have everyone at my funeral use it to take a bump of my ashes.

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        There are ways to turn human remains into a juwel. Now human plastic spoons would be something new to put on ones shelf.

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      Sometimes I feel like my brain is a plastic spoon already

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      Damn… yeah those samples suggest ~6–8mg of plastic per gram of sample tissue in the brains from 2024 😟 That would be like 10 grams in an entire adult brain if the distribution is even.

      “Thankfully” it looks like the brain has the highest concentration of all studied organs 🙃

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      people passing close to a crematorium:

      someone is burning plastic

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      we could make 8 billion spoons with the right recovery recycling operations?

      fuck yeah

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