Can you actually eat dirt? Is it good for you?
No they’re more like carrion eaters.
Also an amazing inventor once said “grass taste bad” pretty sure he would know.
Theoretical a worm eat plants and leaf’s
Relax. With these economic trends, I’m pretty sure we’ll all end up there.
Except who tf can afford it? Granted, this is the organic stuff, but excuse me if I prefer not to feed my kids chemical-filled junk.
We’ve been eating shit for decades due to capitalism and parasitic billionaires, dirt is a step up.
Pretty much all of human history really. We cannot self govern without segregating into the haves and have nots.
become solar panel
…and eat mushrooms
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.
You’ll only have to eat it once for the rest of your life!
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How’s your day going? Well I started shitting and puking my kidney out around noon, I’m fairly sure it’s not supposed to come up through my intestines, but it has
Worms don’t eat dirt. They eat detritus and poop dirt.
Genuinely curious - what is the difference between detritus and dirt?
A compost pile (detritus, plant matter), with the help of worms, turns into dirt.
So what does fecal matter count as? For example my chickens eat the plants, then process it. Then the worm population skyrockets in the dirt where they live, and of course many of them get eaten by said chickens as well, but overall the population has still increased noticably.
Is the chicken’s digestive track just considered part of the composting process? Or is that only once it hits the ground and started getting rained on
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Sometimes I wish Lemmy had awards just like Reddit. Here, take this instead: 🦭
I know it’s the most expensive liquid by fluid oz, but is it more expensive than gold by weight too?
Reaction emotes like how wafrn and misskey do would be so fucking peak. They’re instance customizable too.
Phoque
Is that the French seal of approval?
Very helpful, thank you!
He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.
Well, now that I’ve reviewed up the definition of detritus, not a whole lot.
😂 I would say that detritus is coarser and implies the sense being recognizeable as having been part of a larger whole.
I meant it in the sense of organic debris: leaf litter and such. I think of dirt as being finer and relatively uniform. Water + dirt = mud. Water + detritus = clean detritus.What I meant was that worms sustain themselves on organic material, and, after they break it down, it is more incorporated in to the soil.
Theres is a whole other discussion to be had whether dirt ≈ soil…
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.
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.
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.
More available/easily digestible nutrients probably. Stuff like decomposing leaf litter, dead plants, other animal excrement.
Disclaimer this is a pure guess.
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirtBut the Nine Inch Nails version…
Let us all know how that works out for you.
Sometimes you just have to. Just not for too long.
by doing this you become the worm.
chicken now try to eat you
The Golden Path
That would explain a lot : Leto II became a worm because he ate dirt (spice - and a worm BTW)
I’m already doing this my diet is mostly coffee… And before I hear all you say coffee isn’t dirt… I can assure you it was GROUND this morning 🤪
Me when my gf asks “would you still love me if I was a worm?”
No. You would be too powerful for me; mo way to make that ethical. Did you not read ‘dune’?
And then lose 90% of that pure energy as heat
I mean eating only dirt would probably kill you, and (if you believe in that sort of stuff) then you can ascent beyond the corporeal.
This gag also appeared in a 1990s In Living Color sketch about a juicer infomercial.
