Mmm dirt
Mmm dirt
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become solar panel
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…and eat mushrooms
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Do you have any mail-order companies where I can get ahold of phytoplankton that I can absorb into my body and form a symbiotic relationship with so they can convert sunlight to energy and supply me with excess?
Last time I tried I just got really bad gas.
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A single gram of uranium contains about 20,000,000,000 calories of energy. That's enough calories to keep you alive for about 27,000 years. Eat uranium to become immortal.
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by doing this you become the worm.
chicken now try to eat you
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I'm already doing this my diet is mostly coffee... And before I hear all you say coffee isn't dirt... I can assure you it was GROUND this morning 🤪
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Worm no eat dirt, worm make dirt.
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Relax. With these economic trends, I'm pretty sure we'll all end up there.
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Except who tf can afford it? Granted, this is the organic stuff, but excuse me if I prefer not to feed my kids chemical-filled junk.
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In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt-
But the Nine Inch Nails version...
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I can only post a classic in response.
https://salticid.tumblr.com/post/143699141224/a-girl-talk-to-me
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That was beautiful 😭
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Theoretical a worm eat plants and leaf's
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And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat
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it's also dirt cheap
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Plants.
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Me when my gf asks "would you still love me if I was a worm?"
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No. You would be too powerful for me; mo way to make that ethical. Did you not read 'dune'?
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Can you actually eat dirt? Is it good for you?
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Even worms don't "eat dirt" they eat biological material like decaying plant matter. And it depends what kind of "worm" we're talking about here. There are countless varieties that eat different things.
But animals that eat pure minerals directly from the Earth? Not many.
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Yeah that whole niche was kinda taken over by the flora kingdom early on jokes on them though we have SpongeBob on our team! He lives in a pineapple showing the innate superiority of animals over plants.
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No they're more like carrion eaters.
Also an amazing inventor once said "grass taste bad" pretty sure he would know.
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I used to like it as a kid, I dunno why. Could be the body demanding minerals or just a kid being stupid
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Let us all know how that works out for you.
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Sometimes you just have to. Just not for too long.
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I mean eating only dirt would probably kill you, and (if you believe in that sort of stuff) then you can ascend beyond the corporeal.
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Trying to picture the size of the bird that eats you
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Yes, this is genuinely why being vegetarian is good
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Where have all the flowers gone?
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This gag also appeared in a 1990s In Living Color sketch about a juicer infomercial.
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This is just “On Ilkley Moor Baht Hat”. Ye’d lose more heat than that too - it’s well parky up there.
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Worms don’t eat dirt. They eat detritus and poop dirt.
Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
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Well, now that I’ve reviewed up the definition of detritus, not a whole lot.
😂 I would say that detritus is coarser and implies the sense being recognizeable as having been part of a larger whole.
I meant it in the sense of organic debris: leaf litter and such. I think of dirt as being finer and relatively uniform. Water + dirt = mud. Water + detritus = clean detritus.
What I meant was that worms sustain themselves on organic material, and, after they break it down, it is more incorporated in to the soil.
Theres is a whole other discussion to be had whether dirt ≈ soil…
I'll take a shot. "Detritus" is the easier part: it's decaying plant and animal matter. So the worms are eating leaves and stuff after it's started breaking down.
"Dirt" is a little more difficult because it doesn't have as crisp of a definition. Usually when people say "dirt" in this context, they mean "soil," but that's only a little better. The relevant definition for soil is, "the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow."
That detritus gets broken down by bacteria and becomes soil even without worms, but worms do basically the same thing faster. Plus their moving around helps loosen the soil, which also is helpful for growing plants.
They're pretty similar but it seems:
Detritus - fragments of materials that have disintegrated or worn away.
Dirt - Unclean matter, soil or grime.
Close because I'm pretty sure soil is broken down rocks and stuff.
More available/easily digestible nutrients probably. Stuff like decomposing leaf litter, dead plants, other animal excrement.
Disclaimer this is a pure guess.
A compost pile (detritus, plant matter), with the help of worms, turns into dirt.
That's actually a very difficult question. In the context if worms and the ops post I think the best definition would be one of energy availability. Detritus would have lower entropy allowing the worms to more easily extract energy. Dirt would have a much higher entropy as many of the complex molecules in the detritus have been broken down into more smaller fragments.