While isopods can sequester heavy metals within their bodies, this is a temporary solution. Upon their death and decomposition, the heavy metals are released back into the soil, so they do not permanently remove these contaminants from the environment.
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BronxLens@lemm.ee 3 days ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You just know some weirdo millionaire is gonna try and train them to go eat heavy metal and shit someplace useful.
And I’m not even mad, probably the most environmentally friendly mining operation…
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t recommend anyone buy any of them, but one of the books (or possibly short stories? It’s been a while) in the Ender series by OSC kind of touches on that.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You shouldn’t eat precious minerals little loot bug!
dwemthy@lemdro.id 3 days ago
I killed an isopod, and I’m not so proud about it!
casmael@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This is one of my all time favourite comics thanks for posting x
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are isopods the scientific name for pill bugs, aka roly-polies?
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Isopod is the order they are in.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So it’s the isopods’ fault that the band sold out. They were much cooler when they were underground.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So like where do they put it? Do they break it down into non metal, does it get placed elsewhere, or leech back into the soil from their corpse?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
They accumulate it in a specific organ, but they aren’t magical alchemy machines. It stays in their bodies until they die, then they decompose and it goes back into the ground.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Biggest disappointment of this week.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So it’s more like moving heavy metal from soil?
oce@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Need a new survival craft game where you can tame isopods to collect precious metals.