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Thanatos
User ID: 324533 United States 11/10/2007 11:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. if we cant get someone to use seawater, sunshine and the plastic to make recycled building blocks - then chemists aint worthy of the name! Quoting: Zangtang 323398I'm sure we'll excavate all the big land fills and trawl for oceanic garbage once oil gets really scarce, but until then its a question of economics. Rarrgh! |
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User ID: 300939 United States 11/11/2007 12:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 324729just sayin........ um...even though I'm not sure what links are not cool to post or not.....I just did a google search and here are pictures: [link to www.theiff.org] |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 310071 United States 11/11/2007 12:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 324729North Pacific Gyre [link to en.wikipedia.org] The centre of the North Pacific Gyre is relatively stationary region of the Pacific Ocean (the area it occupies is often referred to as the horse latitudes) and the circular rotation around it draws waste material in. This has led to the accumulation of flotsam and other debris in huge floating 'clouds' of waste which have taken on informal names, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex. While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris. Flotsam and jetsam [link to en.wikipedia.org] [link to www.naturalhistorymag.com] Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatoss on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific. The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 310071 United States 11/11/2007 12:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix? Quoting: OneAngryMomjust sayin........ um...even though I'm not sure what links are not cool to post or not.....I just did a google search and here are pictures: [link to www.theiff.org] we are such slobs |
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User ID: 956868 United States 04/30/2010 03:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 320973 Now create an autonomous seabot that metabolizes it and use it for fuel... "And though I believe in the ineffable glory of God, and though I might have experienced the undeniable reality of the Deity, and though I may know the secrets of the ages, these do not fulfill the Love in my heart. But to Change and Be and Do and dissolve both the subject of my person and the object of my God into the fluency of Empirical Providence. The Way, the Truth, and the Life." |
Hillcrest
User ID: 392015 United States 04/30/2010 03:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. satellite piccy of the mess (it's that big green swirly-vortex): [link to ecopicoftheday.files.wordpress.com] Water always wins. :sun: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61222538 United States 08/17/2014 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Here we are 7 years later... And now look at where we are. Thread: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Continues to Grow !!!!!!!As large as the US (Page 3) |