Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be...

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 225 points –

...and they COULD NOT think of a natural process that could produce plastics in the environment in the amounts required to produce life?

Their science would never dream of how it happened.

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We all have plastic in our balls so apparently we're on our way to making some kind of plastic lifeform

Plastic is stored in the balls

Grandparents had lead in the brain, I got plastic in my balls

Wonder what's next

With our current handling of the planet, probably not much.