@ephemeromorph the whole seed crystal idea is ominous and spooky, wow. as is the suggestion that we're constantly shedding bits of everything we've ever ingested, which of course makes sense
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@ephemeromorph the whole seed crystal idea is ominous and spooky, wow. as is the suggestion that we're constantly shedding bits of everything we've ever ingested, which of course makes sense 6 comments
@airshipper @ephemeromorph Yeah this is wild. If one mL of a substance has around 10^22 molecules, and it's mixed with all the water on Earth (10^21 L), then every liter of water on the planet will have 10 molecules of that substance. It's roughly the same for air but I guess it mixes faster. |
@ephemeromorph "Researchers have tentatively suggested that [progesterone] form 2 became gradually harder to produce around 1975, based on a review of production difficulties documented or alluded to in existing literature."
positively lovecraftian implications.
someone's going to synthesize a thing and its going to cause one of our neurotransmitters to pop into a lower-energy polymorph that works the same but is several orders-of-magnitude more delicious-smelling to the old ones, crikey