The Beauty of Slag

(mag.uchicago.edu)

33 points | by sohkamyung 3 days ago

2 comments

  • kjs3 5 hours ago
    My dad was in hazardous waste abatement (see: US Superfund cleanups), and I talked to a guy at a corp party years ago who was researching plants growing on slag. But he was looking at the plants that were sucking up the abundant toxins present in slag with an eye towards environmental cleanup (slowly). Slag is often very nasty stuff, and certain plants (no, I don't know which) were really good at sucking up and sequestering the nastiness.
    • deafpolygon 8 hours ago
      all that to say: “Nature, uh, finds a way."
      • metalman 7 hours ago
        and I read you as saying that you are a bit miffed that it sucked you in........all the way to the end.....but realy you were kinda getting into it, that view over the shouder of supernerds, nerding out loud common admit it now you are going to be secretly looking at random weird plants.