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2008-03-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2008-03-29 03:02|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...Or figure out a way to turn it ito oil...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-29 12:11|| 2008-03-29 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 They find what he describes as a "plastic soup." In some cases there is more plastic in the waters than plankton, the basic food organism of the ocean.

Ima calling bullshit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-29 12:28|| 2008-03-29 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, me too.

Floating garbage dumps the size of Africa?

BS on stilts.

Posted by Harcourt Glens8813 2008-03-29 12:37|| 2008-03-29 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Floating garbage dumps the size of Africa?
Maybe they can use all those glue sticks they found and put that ice shelf that's the size of Rhode Island or Connecticut or Texas or Jupiter back together.

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-29 12:42|| 2008-03-29 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 about the size of Africa

Way bigger than Africa, it's twice the size of New Jersey and it's all your damn fault. All of yourse, and youse know what Ima talking about here. Shiftless shonks, every damn one of 'ya.

Posted by Zebulon Angavick7428">Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-03-29 13:34|| 2008-03-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, plastic dust sounds like an opportunity. Not for us, for bacteria. Its hard to believe that there isn't some organism that can't adapt to devouring microscopic bits of hydrocarbons. Big chunks might be harder to eat.
It might be interesting to grab a few tons of beach sand and treat it like a giant petri dish--sampling every few months to see if the tiniest plastic fragments start vanishing.

Posted by James">James 2008-03-29 14:19|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-03-29 14:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, plastic dust sounds like an opportunity. Not for us, for bacteria. Its hard to believe that there isn't some organism that can't adapt to devouring microscopic bits of hydrocarbons. Big chunks might be harder to eat.
It might be interesting to grab a few tons of beach sand and treat it like a giant petri dish--sampling every few months to see if the tiniest plastic fragments start vanishing.

Posted by James">James 2008-03-29 14:27|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-03-29 14:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, plastic dust sounds like an opportunity. Not for us, for bacteria. Its hard to believe that there isn't some organism that can't adapt to devouring microscopic bits of hydrocarbons. Big chunks might be harder to eat.
It might be interesting to grab a few tons of beach sand and treat it like a giant petri dish--sampling every few months to see if the tiniest plastic fragments start vanishing.

Posted by James">James 2008-03-29 14:30|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-03-29 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 3.5M tons over that size comes out to 21 lbs/acre. Hardly blocking out the sun. In all likelihood, the plastic enhances sea life in the open ocean. It provides a place plant and animal life can anchor onto and gives a hiding place from predators.

Posted by ed 2008-03-29 14:33|| 2008-03-29 14:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Damnit, Zebulon Angavick7428, I so wanted to be called a skell...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-29 15:06|| 2008-03-29 15:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually, plastic dust sounds like an opportunity. Not for us, for bacteria. Its hard to believe that there isn't some organism that can't adapt to devouring microscopic bits of hydrocarbons. Big chunks might be harder to eat.
It might be interesting to grab a few tons of beach sand and treat it like a giant petri dish--sampling every few months to see if the tiniest plastic fragments start vanishing.

Posted by James">James 2008-03-29 15:07|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-03-29 15:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Crud. Stupid computer. Sorry.

Posted by James">James 2008-03-29 15:57|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-03-29 15:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Way bigger than Africa, it's twice the size of New Jersey and it's all your damn fault. All of yourse, and youse know what Ima talking about here. Shiftless shonks, every damn one of 'ya.

Shipman, is that you?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-29 19:51|| 2008-03-29 19:51|| Front Page Top

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