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		wyldfire on Oct 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam It's funny you should bring that line up -- "The Andromeda Strain" (also by Crichton) features a microbe that's able to decompose plastics and rubbers.

novaleaf on Oct 2, 2015 [–]

I suppose it's a well traveled trope.

To quote Aristotle: "Nature abhors a vacuum"

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