My initial thoughts are: Cool! Next thoughts: this would be really useful to engineer into organisms or specialist crops to deal with atmospheric methane pollution. The thought after that is what to do with all the formaldehyde. Formaldehyde does quickly break down and on a world where this is the predominant photosynthesis reaction it stands to reason that life would have evolved a resistance to it, or it would be quickly broke down by the plants for other uses. In fact formaldehyde can be combined with a variety of organic molecules to form plastics. So the plants of this world might not only be weird in their method of photosynthesis they may also have naturally occuring plastic tissues...
Plastic sky-plankton in gas giants...Awesome
(11-16-2018, 05:59 PM)stevebowers Wrote: This would be useful for sky-plankton in the atmosphere of a gas giant. I imagine skyplanton cells to look like bubbles of pure hydrogen, using the tiny density difference between hydrogen and helium to stay afloat. It would be very useful if the photosynthesis process used (or produced hydrogen) as a major component.
Plastic sky-plankton in gas giants...Awesome
OA Wish list:
- DNI
- Internal medical system
- A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!