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Probably concerned about worst case scenarios. This is a bioengineered yeast that eats PET. What if it populates your gut and fucks up your gut fauna and hurts you?
What if you shit it out and it gets into some waste area with lots of plastic and starts multiplying uncontrollably?
What if it evolved to eat other plastic and now all our current plastic starts literally molding?
There’s a lot of weird shit that you can be concerned about. Might be low risk but low risk of extreme new scenario.
Widespread contamination with such microscopic seed crystals may lead to the impression that the original polymorph has “disappeared”. In a few cases, such as progesterone and paroxetine hydrochloride, the disappearance gradually spread across the world, and it is suspected that it is because Earth’s atmosphere has over time become permeated with tiny seed crystals. It is believed that seeds as small as a few million molecules (about 10^−15 grams) are sufficient for converting one morph to another, making unwanted disappearance of morphs particularly difficult to prevent.
Probably concerned about worst case scenarios. This is a bioengineered yeast that eats PET. What if it populates your gut and fucks up your gut fauna and hurts you?
What if you shit it out and it gets into some waste area with lots of plastic and starts multiplying uncontrollably?
What if it evolved to eat other plastic and now all our current plastic starts literally molding?
There’s a lot of weird shit that you can be concerned about. Might be low risk but low risk of extreme new scenario.
Ice-9 but for plastic!
Or like Ritonavir
Remarkable. Actual sci-fi grade stuff.
Very cool!
Niche reference but I’m here for it
Side plot point in Niven’s Ringworld/Protector series, only with superconductors.
And also in The Andromeda Strain.
Sounds great! The world will recover, without the scourge of plastics!
Those are mental images that I didn’t want
Acceptable damage.
Yeah, unintended consequences can be devastating.
Can’t be any worse than fast food!