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12,600-year-old painting that's 8 miles long discovered in the Amazon Rainforest
Unearthing prehistoric art is exciting at the best of times, but when that art consists of eight miles’ worth of ice age paintings, it becomes the discovery of a lifetime.Researchers in the Amazon rainforest uncovered an extraordinary “canvas” made up of drawings of mastodons, giant sloths and...
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Some food for thought, i brought up nylon eating bacteria earlier. Again popular science where a layman such as myself is usually a decade behind...
In 2016 japanese scientists discovered a new bacteria strain that can eat PET (polyethylene teraphthalate)
www.sci.news
Man made material, invented in 1941. Scientists are just as stumped as they were with the nylon eaters, they cannot explain how this capability evolved in ~60 years.
Keep in mind, it took 60 million years for fungus and bacteria to develop the capability to produce enzymes to digest lignin, the material that plants evolved to create wood.
Remember, all that undigestable, non-biodegradable wood ended up buried, unable to rot, eventually became what we call coal.
In 2016 japanese scientists discovered a new bacteria strain that can eat PET (polyethylene teraphthalate)
Ideonella sakaiensis: Newly-Discovered Bacterium Can Break Down, Metabolize Plastic | Biology | Sci-News.com
The newfound species -- named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 -- breaks down the plastic by using two enzymes to hydrolyze poly[ethylene terephthalate], or PET.
www.sci.news
Man made material, invented in 1941. Scientists are just as stumped as they were with the nylon eaters, they cannot explain how this capability evolved in ~60 years.
Keep in mind, it took 60 million years for fungus and bacteria to develop the capability to produce enzymes to digest lignin, the material that plants evolved to create wood.
Remember, all that undigestable, non-biodegradable wood ended up buried, unable to rot, eventually became what we call coal.
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Again, there's probably something similar it eats so it wasn't a huge leap. The chemistry of plastic molecules is very similar to the chemistry of organic molecules. After all, plastic is made from oil which is made from trees (please don't meme me, I know it's an oversimplification).Some food for thought, i brought up nylon eating bacteria earlier. Again popular science where a layman such as myself is usually a decade behind...
In 2016 japanese scientists discovered a new bacteria strain that can eat PET (polyethylene teraphthalate)
Ideonella sakaiensis: Newly-Discovered Bacterium Can Break Down, Metabolize Plastic | Biology | Sci-News.com
The newfound species -- named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 -- breaks down the plastic by using two enzymes to hydrolyze poly[ethylene terephthalate], or PET.
Man made material, invented in 1941. Scientists are just as stumped as they were with the nylon eaters, they cannot explain how this capability evolved in ~60 years.
Keep in mind, it took 60 million years for fungus and bacteria to develop the capability to produce enzymes to digest lignin, the material that plants evolved to create wood.
Remember, all that undigestable, non-biodegradable wood ended up buried, unable to rot, eventually became what we call coal.
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Again just like the nylon enzymes, there is nothing similar, it's completely man-made, and PET requires a double enzyme evolution to digest rather than a singular like nylon.
60 million years for fungus and bacteria to evolve to eat wood, the thing that is by and large their primary food source. But 60 years for water bottles or panty hose?
I thought you lived on a coal mine but you understand nothing about how it formed.
60 million years for fungus and bacteria to evolve to eat wood, the thing that is by and large their primary food source. But 60 years for water bottles or panty hose?
I thought you lived on a coal mine but you understand nothing about how it formed.
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Ignore the supposition, the fluff, the dumb fuckin music, and the clearly english tags at the site. Haven't heard of spots like this being discovered in Peru before. Have youChukzombi ?
I haven't seen that one, but I've seen several like that, strange right angled carvings in rocks up there. Looks like it's near Macchu Pichu. There is no way to tell what that is exactly, let alone a vault or connected to the aliens. If I had to guess, it looks like a method of water collection by the mountain residents. A well.
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It looks like a well for sure. Hopefully someone will do an exploration to confirm. Would be pretty cool to see the full network on a map.
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there is this massive rock in the same area which may have been a bluepring of the carvings or something. i think its more mysterious.
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there is this massive rock in the same area which may have been a bluepring of the carvings or something. i think its more mysterious.
Fuck bro. I'm just waiting for the original Zandalari OG to come out and give me a list of 7-9 missions, with varying rewards depending on their success.
That, or its just a city layout and the flow of water or some shit. I would watch the video, but they try to grasp at straws too much. "It could be a city map, or it could be... THE DEVIL!"
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Lol, what the hell are you talking about? Who is grasping at straws? The video talks about it being a possible layout of a region or lost city. Exactly what you're describing. It's not a conspiracy theory. We don't talk about ancient aliens here. It's a ten minute video.Fuck bro. I'm just waiting for the original Zandalari OG to come out and give me a list of 7-9 missions, with varying rewards depending on their success.
That, or its just a city layout and the flow of water or some shit. I would watch the video, but they try to grasp at straws too much. "It could be a city map, or it could be... THE DEVIL!"
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Jesus bro. I said I didnt watch the video. I just couldnt imagine their would be much fucking mystery behind the fucking object that they made a whole fucking 10 minute video about. Calm down. Dont hyperventilate. Shit'll be ok.
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not hyperventilating, just that you seemed to be suggesting that i post ancient aliens trash videos here. you know i don't. the real mystery is how did they create such an intricate sculpture out of a material like andesite which no primitive tools can can cut.