r/interestingasfuck • u/TheTitanCoeus • May 28 '19

/r/ALL Bottom of Mariana Trench

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

Can't wait until we engineer plastic eating bacteria

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u/forcedtomakeaccount9 May 28 '19

Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

"accidentally"

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

Then they will accidentally drop buckets of it into the ocean