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1. https://www.sciencealert.com/deep-sea-scientists-hunting-a-shipwreck-accidentally-stumbled-across-the-oceans-own-backrooms
2. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-damage-in-mice-with-just-two-injections
3. https://www.sciencealert.com/no-place-on-earth-is-safe-if-all-hell-breaks-loose-but-one-place-is-safer-than-the-rest
4. https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-study-links-the-time-you-eat-breakfast-to-how-long-youll-live
5. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-made-a-cookie-out-of-recycled-plastic-slurry-welcome-to-2026
6. https://www.sciencealert.com/uniquely-beneficial-effect-study-suggests-keto-diet-is-healthiest-for-weight-loss-heres-why
Blunderwriter
Plastic cookies…??? Hey why not…we’ve all got plastic in our balls right?
Sethiusalpha
Weird to see that Australia thing considered "news". I've been wanting to build my retirement castle in the deserts of Australia for the last 22 years over what I considered to be common knowledge.
SecurityBadger
#5 Oh, like we don't have enough plastics in our system already. "Eat your PFAS honey, so you grow up big and strong." /s
Athol
4: What are the times damn it!
gcHatMan10
#4 sounds more like correlation than causation. I have a feeling people who are eating later or skipping breakfast are generally poorer and have less access to medical care than people who can eat on a strict schedule
RoyalTentacle
#2
On one hand, this is fucking amazing. Can’t wait to hear news about clinical trials on humans.
On another hand, rat Caesar soon? /j
RalphH
Australia is the most resiliant place. Remember, MadMax is where the climate is still ok-isch!
dripstone
So the fact that Mad Max was based in Australia was ultimately wrong?
Kefkah
I have consumed the microplastics, now feed me the macroplastics.
FacelessAce
#2 LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!! WE DID IT!!! WE F#C#ING DID IT!!!! YEAH!!!!!
iamahorriblemonsterwhodeservesdeath
It's promising, BUT, from the article: "Of course, at this early stage, there's no guarantee that the results will carry across to humans. But the research could provide an intriguing new angle from which to tackle Alzheimer's."
Callipygius
Modern science is so impressive that we're able to find a cure for Alzheimer's and cancer nearly every week! /s
cousteau
Clicked on #4 hoping to find out when to eat to die less, only to find that the article suggests that the time is more a symptom of going to die earlier than a cause. :(
Grimmrog
So.e of these studies feell weird sometimes, I am not sure of the mortality is truly related to the time you eat, surely more about the lifestyle that leads to eating at these times.
mjperk
They explicitly mention reverse causation being possible in the article. The headlines can be deceiving. You should read the full article to get all the "gotchas" and stipulations.
RichardPenne
I'm gonna call bullshit on the Alzheimer's paper. In the first paragraph it says "That's because once neurons are lost, the adult brain lacks the ability to replace them." And, later, in paragraph #7 it states " The targets this time were astrocytes, cells in the brain that support neurons – and if needed, become new ones." If you can't keep your story straight for 7 paragraphs (either the brain does or does not replace neurons), I can't believe anything about your study.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
After Shmong's previous devastating revelation that consuming any amount of sugary drink (soda, juice, etc.) even once a day can double your chance of developing stomach cancer, now we're hit with eating later first and last meals of the day can increase your chance of death??
marthafarquar
Used to work on a survey ship with a Remote Operated Vehicle ( ROV ) doing the data collection. One job was checking oil pipelines in the North Sea. They had a live video feed from the ROV cameras to the operators shack and the bridge. Late one night I was up on the bridge watching the monitor when a monolith, like the one in 2001, appeared out of the gloom sitting on top of the pipe. It was an awesome sight and were about to wake the captain, when we realised it was just a large fridge freezer.
NurseNotSoJoy
Thank you for scaring me to death, then taking it back at the last second 👍
ignatiuspopular
I remember that first one happening ages ago...
theyallwenttoMexico
Thanks for including links. 😊👍
DarthBrooks64
#1 is a debris from a shipping container that fell off a ship.
CoalhouseWalker
Re: #4 ... The findings essentially say if you skip breakfast, there's a higher all-cause mortality and eating dinner too early or too late also increases it, BUT.... "The study's biggest limitations follow from its observational design. Meal timing was primarily captured by a single 24-hour recall at the start, which may not represent years of habitual eating."
DeanSledgehammer
Most food studies are, if not bs, then at least sus. They are almost always based on recall and in long studies it's not at all reliable that participants recall their eating habits correctly from yestersay never mid a month ago. Also people tend to sugarcoat their answers.
It's really difficult to do proper science on eating habits because you can't monitor peopl 24/7 and foece them to eat like you want.
CoalhouseWalker
They also acknowledge it could be reverse causality. People skipping breakfast or eating late as a symptom of other health issues. But really based on one day of eating I would hardly call this anywhere near scientifically rigorous.
Kbantar
I'm diabetic with a morning blood sugar spike. So eating right after waking isn't a good thing even if my stomach wanted me to.
spicepoet
least science based ones i've seen in this series. there are some correlations which will need -lots- more studies, is more the real finding
ConsumerOfStories
Wait, so you're telling me Mad Max is the BEST case scenario if society collapses?!
AgamemnonsMemes
My favourite part about mad max is that there is no mention of the rest of the world. The rest of the world could be fine, thats just how australia is lol
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
Well, as barbaric as the world of Mad Max is depicted to be, it isn't total anarchy - there is a society or societies there.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
It's certainly an outcome where humans survived
alcamar
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Stefnos87
well... when they are set anywhere else it's always zombies or aliens or demons.... so slighty car-cracy humans seems kinda tame xD
FacelessAce
They said Australia is most resilient. Don't forget factor 2 in these scenarios: Will people go crazy?
davebarton315101
On the Beach
FacelessAce
Why?
davebarton315101
Book and movie about Australia meeting the end of life on earth with dignity, great read and somehow both inspiring and depressing.
Woogyface
aww yeah can't wait for corpos to sell me their waste as cookies for $8.99/4pcs. "you eat it and you will like it" could be the new mc donalds slogan
StrokeFlavoured
There is algae that "eats" plastic, but why bother if you can sell a product to the consumer-pigs? (I know the topic is more complex than this)
vowofloudness
Tomigami
Ba-dop-ba-ba-baaaah, it's ed-i-ble
CorvidPrime
Ever play “Outer Worlds”?
BHPaperstacks
Could have been a great game, but they decided to go with decidedly mediocre instead. Even just better item diversification and acquisition like in Fallout:NV would have contributed massively to making the game more enjoyable.
dffksh
FacelessAce
Heck yeah, Love Stupendium. Has he gone Milkshake Duck, yet?
DaravinDK
Cookies made from plastic..
EatYourSoylentGreenAndShutUp
If you want I can offer you an alternative...
Psionickitten
Do you remember the article claiming a Japanese scientist repurposed human excrement into an edible meat ~13 years ago? Forced to pick one of the two, I think I'd prefer plastic cookies.
davebarton315101
This will save so many grave diggers jobs but we might never get Soylent Green.
Roaddog184
It’s called corpse starch in the warhammer 40k universe
RaVeNrcft
You should read up on how synthases vanilla favoring is made.
Camelspotting
Carbon is carbon, but yeah gross
Heelcat70
If you eat that, will you shit ping-pong balls?
PonyMadness
Probably, but your diet will pretty much have to be only these cookies.
Heelcat70
My diet is already pretty much cookies, fortunately.
SirButcher
Just check out NileRed's channel on youtube, the guy turned styrofoam into cinnamon candy, cotton balls into cotton candy, plastic gloves into hot sauce and grape soda...
Most of plastic is varying lengths of hydrocarbon chains with a lot of extra stuff. With enough steps and enough chemicals, you can turn them into edible stuff.
SquiddelyDooDoodlyDoo
Edible doesn't mean without side effects.
Edible just means digestible. There's zero way to say forever chemicals can truly be filtered out since all the same pollutants are already in the food and drink that ISN'T derived from normally inedible things.
It could take several decades for us to find out "Oh, hey, turns out this wasn't a great fucking idea"
DustInComp
Wait. In a roundabout way, you'd be eating dinosaurs.
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
This myth needs to die. Oil is algae and plankton from the time of dinosaurs.
ComoSeIguana
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Vempire
Yeah, no thanks
bemurray814
Completely agree.
j4gr
Hey. Could I get a random downvote for being sane and normal like everyone above me? Please and thank you!
FuzzyX
"edible".
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
No really and truly edible and sometimes tasty. Keep in mind Nile is doing this as just a guy dicking around on Youtube (A trained chemist guy but still) not doing shitloads of R&D into flavor or mass production. Sneering at something that could actually do something about the plastic problem on the planet really isn't helpful.
bemurray814
Sneering about not wanting to ingest plastic? Ok...
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Yes... because it would no longer be plastic by the time you eat it. Much like the shit shoveled onto plants is not still shit when you eat a tomato.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
What is a starch but a long chain polymer? Not sure how you get rid of all of the non-GRAS stuff that goes into the manufacturing of plastics, but the idea behind it is technically sound even if it sounds gross
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
There is a lot of methods for separating including reacting the non-edible parts with another chemical to get it to crash out and then filter it. Hopefully to be used in something else like construction. However I think we really just need to invest more in PHA.
DaravinDK
I get it, I really do, it's creative, resourceful and could potentially help solve some problems we have. But still, you think they could have done something more.. palatable
WhyDontYouMakeMe
I'm more thinking about it the way you'd think about using a 3D printed mug. There's no way to know what went into the production of the plastics and you don't want to risk leeching something horrible into your drink, so you need to coat the plastic in some sort of resin so it can't come in contact with anything going inside of you. Now instead of just drinking a soda that could have mystery chemicals in it, you'd be directly eating the mystery chemicals
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
It's better than burgers made from shit, though, right? Because, that's an actual thing Japan researched and developed.
SquiddelyDooDoodlyDoo
It doesn't actually solve a lot
We don't have a world hunger crisis because there isn't enough food. There's metric tonnes of food waste generated every single day.
And long shelf life ultra processed and preserved goods would do more benefit nutritionally than plastic derived protein, but Americans most of all wanna stuff their fat fucking faces.
DaravinDK
World hunger isn't what I meant when I said potentially solve some problems we have. As everyone has been stating that the process is about breaking down the hydrocarbons into something else, imagine if we could apply a chemical to the next oil tanker spill that turns it into fish food, or the next oil pipeline breaks into fertilizer, something not harmful or that takes significantly shorter time to break down. Not to mention all the cubic meters of plastic trash in the world right now.
SquiddelyDooDoodlyDoo
Just because we can do this doesn't mean we should.
There is no telling what side effects it could have on us in a few decades time.
There's already forever chemicals in our food and water supplies, organic or otherwise, that AREN'T meant to be there.
There's no proof this is safe to eat. Either. It's not even officially approved by any governing body on food safety