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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says (www.cnn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.

That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.

“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”

An entire spoon's worth of plastic in ol' wrinkly. That doesn't seem good.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Future generations will have their brains filled with perhaps spent nanobots or microscale 3D printer feedstock, just as our ancestors filled theirs with asbestos, lead, and mercury

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

like in the neo-victorian times in Neil Diamond's book The Stephenson Age where poor people cough up soot made from trillions of dead nanobots

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Stephen Nielsen's The Age Diamond

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Personally, I'm hyped for the new and exotic antibiotic-resistance super-bugs and parasites colonizing their bodies.

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Maybe I'm too optimistic but I hope we'll have nanobots to clean up all that crap before we stop functioning.

[–] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Makes me think of a guy who used to eat starburst wrappers until his 20s

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

You guys don't use brain spoon? I use brain spoon all the time!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Yum I love plastic

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

The blood-brain barrier

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Oh the media monkeys and the junket junkies will invite you to their plastic pantomime. Throw their invitations away!

[–] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

30 times more plastic than 8 years ago is fucking crazy

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I knew I could feel all that shit sloshing around back in there

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