The 'toxic monster' is coming! Texas-sized floating island containing one million tonnes of junk fro
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[QUOTE=No_0ne;42769619]nuke it[/QUOTE]
If we have a low yield, environmentally friendly nuke with a short half-life associated to it? Probably the best option.
I know there is a song for event like this a very special one too.
[video=youtube;TAw5nWJBNrM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAw5nWJBNrM[/video]
Plastic beach?
[QUOTE=No_0ne;42769619]nuke it[/QUOTE]
The hero we need in these dire times.
Hedorah confirmed for Godzilla 2014.
I sort of hope it washes up on the coast, getting slapped in the face is pretty much the only way to make people care about what we're doing to the environment these days.
This was literally a Ben 10 episode I shit you fucking not
It even had Mulder and Scully in it from X-Files.
[QUOTE=Meatbang;42770095]This was literally a Ben 10 episode I shit you fucking not
It even had Mulder and Scully in it from X-Files.[/QUOTE]
Having a massive floating trash dump in the ocean is nothing new. There are several in the Pacific alone made up of discarded plastic that's ended up in gyres.
[QUOTE=Grimhound;42770147]Having a massive floating trash dump in the ocean is nothing new. There are several in the Pacific alone made up of discarded plastic that's ended up in gyres.[/QUOTE]
[B][I]BUT THEY WEREN'T FLOATING TOWARDS THE US WERE THEY?[/I][/B]
I wish we could get a giant membrane and scoop up all the trash floating on the Pacific...we should compress all our garbage, cram it onto a missile and launch it into the dark side of the moon or the sun or something. It'd be exorbitantly expensive but it'd be such a great investment for the Earth.
[QUOTE=Furioso;42770290]I wish we could get a giant membrane and scoop up all the trash floating on the Pacific...we should compress all our garbage and launch it to the dark side of the moon[/QUOTE]
Or the sun. It would never bother us again if it were on the sun.
Hell, having an inexpensive means of getting large masses of material into orbit and giving it a push into the sun would solve a lot of problems with things like nuclear waste which we'll probably never be able to use again anyways.
As it stands though, way too fucking expensive.
We should play a game of "i spy" with the pictures. There's so much random content.
Keep in mind it is not literally an island of debris. More like a giant cloud.
Vice did a series on "finding the garbage island" and it gives you a better idea of what seaborne debris look like.
Of course since these are fresher, the peices may be larger.
Isn't this crazy old news?
We predicted a massive amount of trash on the BC coast this summer and we still have not seent he proverbial houses and cars.
Unless you can see it from space, its not the size of Texas.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;42770053]Plastic beach?[/QUOTE]
Aw, I came here specifically to make that reference.
It would be kinda interesting to see what actually ends up there. Could be some cool shit in there...
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was some crazy hermit guy living on the island.
[QUOTE=Furioso;42770290]I wish we could get a giant membrane and scoop up all the trash floating on the Pacific...we should compress all our garbage, cram it onto a missile and launch it into the dark side of the moon or the sun or something. It'd be exorbitantly expensive but it'd be such a great investment for the Earth.[/QUOTE]
I think you will find that recycling and reusing the materials that can be reused or recycled, and then doing... something, to the rest, would be more economical, and more friendly to the environment.
We have limited resources on this planet, no point wasting resources to get other resources off the planet and eventually destroyed.
We had a whole dock wash up on the coast here in Washington. Then there was that shipping container with a Harley motorcycle in it too.
There is oil there send the marines.
[QUOTE=Furioso;42770290]I wish we could get a giant membrane and scoop up all the trash floating on the Pacific...we should compress all our garbage, cram it onto a missile and launch it into the dark side of the moon or the sun or something. It'd be exorbitantly expensive but it'd be such a great investment for the Earth.[/QUOTE]
Using a membrane to filter it out would do more damage to the plankton than it would be worth. The idea has been[URL="http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic/"] pitched by people before[/URL], and [URL="http://deepseanews.com/2013/09/revisiting-the-ocean-cleanup-a-plan-to-remove-plastic-from-the-oceans/"]shot down by biologists. [/URL]
I find it very hard to believe it is actually the size of texas. like that is fucking humungous
Hooray free shit!
someone should go salvage all that wood and metal, i bet the wood is aged really well by now and the metal has got to be worth something
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