kender242,
@kender242@lemmy.world avatar

This is how coal exists, FYI

flyingjake,

Well I feel like I acquired both a new point of view and a chuckle with this one, so thank you Internet friend 😌

OurTragicUniverse,
@OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social avatar

And in 4 billion years, that layer of microplastics will have condensed down into fuel for the next creatures to annihilate their atmosphere with. Circle of life.

Epicurus0319,

So basically… plastics are the new wood? Surface-dwelling sea creatures suffered from ingesting ”microfibers?”

uphillbothways, (edited )
@uphillbothways@kbin.social avatar

Did those trees, before there were decomposers, have access to nitrogen fixing bacteria? Where were they getting ammonium and nitrate?
Just stuff built up from lightning, nitrogen and oxygen?

Edit: Looks like land dwelling soil forming bacteria started in the Cambrian. Then, in the Ordovician the first land plants. Then, in the Silurian vascular plants and trees appeared.

zipsglacier,

powerhouse of the cell!!!

Spaghetti_Hitchens,

Mighty, Mighty Bossochondria

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • science_memes@mander.xyz
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #