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Re:Scientists identify microbe that could help degrade polyu... by narag on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:14AM (#22702969)
Water, gas, sewage, electricity and telecom lines are conducted/coated with PET.

You would weep.

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Re:Scientists identify microbe that could help degrade polyu... by baq on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:08PM (#22704660)
you sir have won the understatement of the thread award.

i'd literally be flooded with shit if something ate my plumbing, which likely means dead. that is, unless the isolation of electric cabling wouldn't burn me alive first.

weep isn't really on the TODO list in that scenario. covid is peanuts in comparison.

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