Today I Learned

you'd think so, but sharks were in fact the first lifeform to be summoned from the astral planes, everything else evolved from a single shark cell that had the right mutations to survive (all sharks simply died within minutes until plants had created enough oxygen for them to breathe, at which point they died within days until the evolution of other animals)

There's also fungi which can use radiation as a source of energy, radiotrophic fungi, and we've been thinking about using them as radiation shields in spacecraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus#Use_in_human_spaceflight

Is this a good thing? Consuming plastic means releasing all the carbon that they're made of.

Cardboard boxes last almost indefinitely in a cool dry warehouse. It's not just a matter of time, but the environment that matters.

It would depend on how well we can control it.

Ideally the material would be completely nonreactive for as long as you're using it and then instantly degrade into component elements.

The faster things degrade, the higher the chance that they'll degrade when you don't want it to.

Speak for yourself there, buddy. I plan on being around for at least another 82 million years. I'm uploading my brain into a terrible android as we speak.

Oh humans will survive, no problem. I mean, not a lot of them and not happily, and there will probably be a nuclear war at the end there, but humans won't go extinct. We're too smart to not find a nice hole to hide in.

Trees breed by putting their babies into extremely resilient, heat and cold protected stasis pods that can go centuries without care and attention in the right conditions - like suviving an ice age or forest fire.

Human babies are wimps by comparison - most of them would die after only a few days left outside at 0 degrees C.

Humans probably will survive too - but how many?
Elon + all this 3 mates.

They didn't know what they were doing, we do, and we actively choose to keep doing it. Unlike those trees mindlessly performing a base biological imperative, we possess the capacity to stop and simply don't because we'd lose some of the comfort and convenience our destructive tech provides.

We're cruel to this planet, all the other creatures on it, and one another. So my reverse ask is, why do you want us to survive? Just because ra-ra home team? Because billions subsisting to serve the whims and ego of a few thousand of our worst, most broken, greedy sociopaths in perpetuity is somehow meaningful? Genuinely asking.

The moon did that a long time ago. And here we are today.

I agree. Total bummer.