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by Red_Comet_88 521 days ago
Synthetic chemistry has overall been a disaster for humanity, particularly since chemists employed the hacker ethos of "move fast and break things". Except in this case the things they broke were other people's bodies and the environment.

Tragic to see the crazed promethean spirit possessing scientists to push forward without a single inkling of the negative consequences. Perhaps Icarus' fate is our inescapable destiny.

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Uh, chemists have been doing that since Chemistry was called Alchemy.
Yeah I can’t think of any practical applications of plastics.