• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I get that, but the title should be “Scientist Discover a New Way to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades”.

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        10 months ago

        They do. Pollen is plant powder. You can also just grind up a tree, but I’ll give you that sawdust is not naturally occurring.

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              10 months ago

              My guy, read your own link. Those are tri celled organisms, wikipedia even drew you a pretty colorful picture.

              Just because the mediocre website used the word powdery doesnt make the living organisms a powder.

              If I describe a leaf as feeling leathery, that does not make the leaf leather.

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                10 months ago

                Do you think that part of the definition of living organism is that it can’t be a powder? Also, do you think sperm are living organisms?

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                  10 months ago

                  Pollen isnt sperm. Pollen is the heavily regressed secondary generation. All plants follow alternate generations.

                  Pollen is the male semiclonal offspring of a dominant angiosperm form. The female lives within the heart of flowers, where they wait for pollen males to arrive and enseminate them.

                  And, yes, the definition of powder is a dry solid that sheers into fine particles. Pollen isnt a dry solid, its a bunch of organisms that are just very small. You could turn pollen into powder by killing, crushing, and drying it. But thats the same as sawdust.

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      10 months ago

      Grab the torch, I’ll bring the pitchfork, and let’s ask the writer just why didn’t made the title less click bait.