Free 3D printing filament
I'm still waiting for nature to figure out how to process plastics and bring down most of the world's infrastructure with it. But I'm not qualified to actually know if this is even possible
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
I thought it already had, I swear I rember some scientists finding or creating something, bacteria fungus or something that processes some polymers and they where tryna get ot to out and eat plastic ig so they can put it in landfills everywhere.
There's fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there's not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It's slow.
Just donate plasma. Works great, gives some other schmuck your plastic.
Couldn't they do some dialysis type thing with our blood somehow? Idk shit about science lol
Yes, in theory. It's extremely dangerous and absurdly expensive. It also would only address the microplastics currently in the bloodstream - the ones already embedded into organ tissues wouldn't be reliably filtered out this way.
Unfortunately, it doesn't stay in the blood. Sometimes it wedges in nooks and crannies, where I accumulates and doesn't leave until a tumor pushes it out.
From what I've read yes.
Which is why all this years I had kidney failure I had spent going plastic free as possible, since I had a probably decent plastic free blood. Can't build up much if it gets filtered 3x a week.
The needles a gigantic btw.
People are freaking out that there is a credit card worth of microplastics in our brains but I'm just paying for things by putting my forehead on the EFTPOS machine and wondering what the limit is.
Yeah it'll be like the machine that you find in museums where you put in a quarter and get an injection molded toy hot out of the mold. You just hook your arm up to an IV and it starts extracting your blood and then when it gets enough of the plastic it melts it and pushes it into the mold and spits out a little toy dinosaur.
...and you will be so happy for a few moments before you realize the machine never returned you back all your blood. You realize the machine never intended to give it back as you slowly fade into eternal slumber.
Sound like a futuristic black-mirror-esque solution to blood donation motivation.
At Blood-B-Kleen, our machine will quickly and safely pull 8 pints of raw dirty blood from your vein and will return 7 pints of your cleaned blood with 99% reduction in plastics and PFAS, plus some hydrating fluids and vitamins. We don’t even charge you for it yet!
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
Bro I just 3D printed a model of my dick from the plastic in my blood
ah i see, you are living mostly plastic free
gotta make do with the little material you have
/jk im sure you have a palm tree there
Isn't plastic basically biologically inert? So unless it is physically blocking something shouldn't we have seen adverse effects if it actually was dangerous? Or maybe health problems just haven't been associated with it yet. I think with lead it was obvious pretty quickly. I am a dumbass tho, so maybe someone smarter can correct me.
Plastic is mimicking certain hormones and I'm suspecting that the recent rise in cancer rates is linked to plastic intake.
Ah okay, didn't know that. Danke.
The water surrounding DuPont plants manufacturing PFOA-based materials was contaminated with those plastics. A local farmer videotaped his cows develop ulcers, grow tumors, and eventually wither and die. He constantly insisted that something was in the water that was killing his cows. Those same chemicals are now pervasive everywhere, in everyone's bodies to some extent. It is 100% accurate to say these chemical compounds will kill you longterm.
That's very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.
Dupont wasn't dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.
Edit: I'm presuming because "This content in unavailable in your area".
There is different health implications connected to microplastics like infertility and cardiovascular diseases, although the connections are not quite understood yet. The amount of microplastics in the human body is very alarming though. A study with brain samples found 0.5w% of plastics, which corresponds to roughly 6g of plastic in a brain. That's a credit card's worth of plastic.
This article should give some overview over different findings and implications:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
Interesting. I had only heard about how it "MAY" be harmful before, which means nothing.
Danke für die Korrektur.
Animals and environment - get fucked, losers!
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You can download a car... but are you allowed to "steal" (get for free) the filament???
I want them to 3D print a neat little Star Wars starship miniature out of mine. Something obscure like a Kimogila.
This is a post about college loans lmao
