• Victor@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    1 tooth 1 year

    2 tooth 2 year

    Oh okay so 9 women can have a baby in 1 month after all. Neat.

  • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip
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    That plastic bag estimate is off by a factor of 100. Obviously this isn’t meant to be taken seriously but it still feels like misinformation. Someone will see that and decide it’s true.

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      1 month ago

      What do the plastic bags break down into when they decompose?

      I am under the impression they don’t decompose at all, just break into smaller pieces.

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        Based on what I’ve read, you are correct, and plastic might never really decompose. It breaks into smaller and smaller pieces which are stable enough to stay plastic essentially forever. That 1000 to 2000 year thing that I read about contradicts some other things I’ve read, so it’s pretty confusing. I need to track down that article and clarify this.

        The best thing we can do as a species is eliminate as much plastic waste as possible.

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      The duration for a plastic bag to break down primarily depends on the type of plastic used, and a number of environmental factors.

      There are plastics that actually break down in a few years, other plastics are in the centuries to millennium range. On top of that, it depends on the environment, too: acidic, basic, wet, dry, protected, exposed, temperature, etc.

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    1 month ago

    Can someone explain the neutron star to me? I thought the heat death of the universe would put a cap on that.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    OK, its official: I’m shifting my stock portfolio to cryogenic companies. I will take a 15,000 year nap and wake up to a pure world or die trying

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        What? That’s staying with me under ice. You’ll have to pluck my cursed armor off my corpse before I take it off! (I die if it’s ever removed)

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    I’m glad they included Cleveland. Never been, but sounds like a great place that should last that long.