• GluWu@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    I mean lead is pretty tastey, romans figured that out. But guy in year 10,000 is still going to have microplastics, the entire earth has been irreversibly infected.

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      12 days ago

      Guy in year 10k may be spared microplastics, if society figures out how to do so and also decides it is worth it to do so. That’s a lot of years to, for example, come up with nanites that break microplastics down into component bits.