"Taste the rainbow" getting new meaning
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This implies that microplastics were inevitable because of the industrial revolution instead of because of the oil industry destroying regulation for 100 years.
"In 1804, Richard Trevithick developed the high pressure steam engine, unwhittingly dooming all of humanity."
The first nobhead to pick up a stick to use as a tool kicked off a technological singularity and now we’re buggered.
Me going back in time to meet Eduard Simon:

Can someone smart clear this up for me? I thought distillation was the process of evaporating liquids then cooling them to form just the pure liquid on the other end, if this can happen in rain, could micro plastics find their way into distilled water too?
Raindrops always condensate around a little dust particle referred to as nucleus, afaik
yeah, i'd think the nucleus for these raindrops were microplastic clouds
Evaporation ≠ distillation. Nature doesn't have filters everywhere. That's not to say that nature doesn't have filters, but they are seemingly sparse in the air.
Distillation doesn't use filters either
It could just be the wind that was hanging out in the same spot as the rain. Wind can carry stuff reeeeeaaaaaally far.
Plastic is just gray goo in slow motion.
It doesn't reproduce though.

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