Mmm dirt
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Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
I'll take a shot. "Detritus" is the easier part: it's decaying plant and animal matter. So the worms are eating leaves and stuff after it's started breaking down.
"Dirt" is a little more difficult because it doesn't have as crisp of a definition. Usually when people say "dirt" in this context, they mean "soil," but that's only a little better. The relevant definition for soil is, "the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow."
That detritus gets broken down by bacteria and becomes soil even without worms, but worms do basically the same thing faster. Plus their moving around helps loosen the soil, which also is helpful for growing plants.
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The Golden Path
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That would explain a lot : Leto II became a worm because he ate dirt (spice - and a worm BTW)
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Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
wrote last edited by [email protected]More available/easily digestible nutrients probably. Stuff like decomposing leaf litter, dead plants, other animal excrement.
Disclaimer this is a pure guess.
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Yes, this is genuinely why being vegetarian is good
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Very helpful, thank you!
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Trying to picture the size of the bird that eats you
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He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.
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become solar panel
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Reaction emotes like how wafrn and misskey do would be so fucking peak. They're instance customizable too.
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And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat
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A single gram of uranium contains about 20,000,000,000 calories of energy. That's enough calories to keep you alive for about 27,000 years. Eat uranium to become immortal.
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Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
They're pretty similar but it seems:
Detritus - fragments of materials that have disintegrated or worn away.
Dirt - Unclean matter, soil or grime.
Close because I'm pretty sure soil is broken down rocks and stuff.
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In the end
And you could have it all
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Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
That's actually a very difficult question. In the context if worms and the ops post I think the best definition would be one of energy availability. Detritus would have lower entropy allowing the worms to more easily extract energy. Dirt would have a much higher entropy as many of the complex molecules in the detritus have been broken down into more smaller fragments.
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Let us all know how that works out for you.
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become solar panel
…and eat mushrooms
