…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.
There’s a short story by Ted Chiang called Exhalation which explores an idea somewhat like this. I highly recommend it.
And discovering that plastic surgeons somehow came first…
There’s no way plastic based life forms don’t emerge from one of the garbage patches, given enough time.
This is like what I’ve been saying, how do we know the microplastics are bad for us? Could be our final form…
We all have plastic in our balls so apparently we’re on our way to making some kind of plastic like form
Plastic is stored in the balls
Grandparents had lead in the brain, I got plastic in my balls
Wonder what’s next
Lithium
In which body part?
Left pinky toe’s nail
With our current handling of the planet, probably not much.
Your kids will have death stored in their body.
finger in the arse
Apparently also in the penis
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Won’t be long now until we are plastic based life forms.
Considering everyone’s sperm is bathing in plastic rn, who knows lol.
There technically has always been natural plastic. Polymers. Rubber is an obvious one. But chitin, DNA, silk, sulfer can become plastic, etc are all polymers.
“Achully-ness” aside. It would be wild to find a plastic based insect. It would probably finally unite all of humanity against a singular cause. I doubt we have enough bombs though.
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I have to ask, what’s the point of a blank reply?
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Now would be a good time to start watching Doctor Who (2005) if you haven’t yet 😂
I watched through Peter Capaldi, and quite a few of Jodie Whittaker, if not most.
Toy Story 5: After the Apokalypse
Reminds me of this short sci fi story I just recently listened to on a podcast.
That’s the story in text. If you want to hear it read to you, it’s CZM Book Club: The Plastic People by Tobias Buckell out on 23 Dec 2023.
Reminds me of Code of the Lifemaker, where mechanical life evolves on Titan. Seemed oddly plausible when I read it, but it’s been 20+ years. LOL, maybe it was stupid.
Thank you for not just trying to redefine basic words as a post.
To your thought, Im not sure if it’d be funny so much as existentially tragic—however plastics are both chemically complex and (as far as I understand) fairly inert so not sure if a form of life could develop with them as their base, so hopefully no such cursed creature will ever walk the physical spheres of the universe we inhabit.
