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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
I don’t think the toxins produced by this stuff makes for good fertilizer. It’s not really “real” algae - it’s bacteria, some of the earliest stuff to come around on the planet - we likely owe our atmosphere to the stuff.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@QuixoticSoul Oh yuck 🤢
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SimplyTracie Then again some “real” algae produces toxins too. People often conflate “natural” with good or healthy - but nature has made a lot of shit that will kill you just fine.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@QuixoticSoul There are those beneficial ones and then there’s evil ones.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SimplyTracie Evil is a human thing, nature is beyond those kinds of qualifiers. Toxity is often a simply survival adaptation, after all.
But yeah, some algae is useful for us. Someday we just might take some to the stars.
But yeah, some algae is useful for us. Someday we just might take some to the stars.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@QuixoticSoul So many beneficial fungi. Bacteria too.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@SimplyTracie Hell, when you look at it in a certain way, we are walking meat armor for an ancient bacterial symbiont 😳
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@QuixoticSoul 😲