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Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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...and they COULD NOT think of a natural process that could produce plastics in the environment in the amounts required to produce life?

Their science would never dream of how it happened.

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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

There's no way plastic based life forms don't emerge from one of the garbage patches, given enough time.

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