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		pavel_lishin on Feb 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic I imagine that jets are inspected often enough for something like this to be caught. I imagine that a bigger problem would be an infection getting loose in a manufacturing factory. How much of my laptop is edible?

ars on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

This fungus would still need water, so all they have to do is keep the jet dry, which they do anyway.

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