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  • It’s actually potato starch.

    Sawdust isn’t just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn’t particularly toxic, you wouldn’t want to eat it.

    Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellolose to lignin, so it’s better for making paper















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    11 days ago

    What gets me are the people that insist that humans can’t be exceptional and be the first civilization in the galaxy because we’re really dumb… which is it’s own exceptionalism.

    If you really thing humans are ‘meh’, the solution to the Fermi Paradox that fits best is that we’re lucky and among the first civilizations. Especially when you consider that the universe hasn’t been hospitable to life until very recently