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Hi peopleeee!! I am sooo happy!!

The other day, I bought something super cool. You have seen it for sure because it is getting sponsored a lot over the major social platforms. You know that HD wireless microscope that fit into your pocket and you can go around with your HD wireless microscope that fit into your pocket and look at things with 1000x times magnifications, so that you can post pictures on your socials of your 1000x times magnified stuff and your friends are like…”Oooooooohhhh!!!! WTF!!! Look what picture he took with his HD wireless microscope that fit into his poooocket!!”….unbelievable….I’m so exited, I can’t get higher 😂😂😂

….And I said this to myself: “what an exiting era to live in…”. If I were born in the 50’s or the 40’s I would have lost all this. Sure….I would have been exited for other kind of things like….oh man no….there is absolutely nothing comparable to an HD wireless microscope that fit into my pocket….nooooo way.

Maybe, from the past there are things more useful than cool like….plastic for example.

Have you ever thought how the discovery of plastic materials was one of the major cornerstones for the progress of humanity?

Do you know how plastic was discovered?
Cool story:

It all begins with another object: the billiard ball…

And you say….what dobilliard balls has to do, with the invention of plastic?

It went like this:In the middle of 1800 billiard balls were made out from elephant tusks. The process to made the billiard balls was expensive, the final cost of the billiard balls was even far more expensive and the thing that was even worst, was the elephant killing machine. We talk of more than 12.000 elephants per year just for that purpose.

So, an American billiard balls manufacturer said: “We have to do something about this!! Let’s do something positive for the animals! Let’s do something eco friendly! Why not offering a price of 10.000$ to find a material to use instead of ivory.”

It was like this that in the year 1869 was synthetized celluloid…the very fist plastic material of the world.

YES. The plastic was designed, conceived to be an ECO FRIENDLY material…to save life to the animals.

Than what happened…how could ever happen that a material thought to save lives, to respect the environment, turn out to be the plague of modern era, a plague for aquatic creatures, a continent in the middle of Pacific Ocean?

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