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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« on: June 10, 2012, 10:12:07 am »
Never heard of it? Not surprised.

A great many of you know about currents and how wind affects the water. For instance, we know that the Gulf Stream exists because the wind blows the heated water from the tropics up north, where it cools at the arctic and travels down along the coast of Europe, back to Africa where the process starts over. This happens all over, including in the pacific ocean.

Now, this water may not be moving fast by a typical civilian standard, but it is moving. And when you have water moving in a vaguely circular pattern, the centripetal force will cause the center area to drop slightly as the edges rise. This creates a basin affect. In the pacific ocean, this basin has been collecting trash since people started tossing trash into the water. And remember, kids, plastic floats and lasts for centuries.

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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2012, 03:53:05 pm »
I was just watching a presentation on this, it was rather sad.  The presenter saying there's almost no hope of cleaning it up.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2012, 05:21:57 pm »
Yep, we pollute the oceans, too.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2012, 02:01:10 am »
It is sad to think that this is old news to me.
I have know about this for a while, and nothing is being done about it, even less than our other very half-hearted conservation efforts.

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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2012, 06:49:38 pm »
It probably doesn't help that I keep reading it as 'great pacific cabbage patch'.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2012, 11:54:56 pm »
This is what I think of:

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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2012, 11:59:10 pm »
Don't worry. We'll just ball it up and shoot it into space, where we won't have to worry about it for 1000 years.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2012, 12:00:00 am »
Don't worry. We'll just ball it up and shoot it into space, where we won't have to worry about it for 1000 years.

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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2012, 09:27:45 am »
It probably doesn't help that I keep reading it as 'great pacific cabbage patch'.

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