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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Great news, but does anyone else get Nanites/Grey Goo vibes from this?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

More worried by the sci fi like future.

Where this stuff evolves into something that looks to hunt mankind. Due to the micro plastics we all have in our bodies.

Huge black fungus blobs rolling up the beach. Covering sun bathers and slowly absorbing the living body over decades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plastic is stored in the balls.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

So "P" was short for "Plastic" all along!