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An island of rubbish

  • 22-07-2010 3:57pm
    #1
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    No not Ireland! There is an island of thrash and **** that is the size of Texas floating around the Pacific Ocean. If you stood on it you would drown due to the sheer amount of rubbish around.

    I never heard of it before now. WTF???

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch


Comments

  • #2
    Anne Numerous Gunpoint
    Posts: 0 ✭ Anne Numerous Gunpoint


    If i stood on the water I would drown? What?


  • #3
    Kepti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Kepti


    [quote=[Deleted User];67061537]If i stood on the water I would drown? What?[/QUOTE]

    I don't think he realizes that most of the patch consists of tiny particles of plastic.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #4
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Heard them talking about it on QI.
    There's also some talk of harvesting the rubbish and burning it to create power!


  • #5
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    [quote=[Deleted User];67061537]If i stood on the water I would drown? What?[/QUOTE]
    There would be no way to swim up through or go around it. It isn't solid land.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah Britain is rubbish


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  • #7
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,060 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Do this new island need a government?


  • #8
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    There would be no way to swim up through or go around it. It isn't solid land.

    Of course you could swim through it. Most of it is so small it's barely visible to the naked eye.


  • #9
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    There is an island of thrash

    What, like... The Isle of Metallica?


  • #10
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    We have to nuke that motherfucker from orbit.


  • #11
    fergalr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭fergalr


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    We have to nuke that motherfucker from orbit.
    Only way to be sure.


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  • #12
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    prinz wrote: »
    Of course you could swim through it. Most of it is so small it's barely visible to the naked eye.
    You should prove your point :P


  • #13
    veXual
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭veXual


    Seems quite convenient that there are no pictures of it....


  • #14
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,466 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Hehe, not Ireland.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #15
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    When you read the Wiki piece, it's really not half as cool as "giant island of rubbish" would lead you to believe.


  • #16
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Einhard wrote: »
    When you read the Wiki piece, it's really not half as cool as "giant island of rubbish" would lead you to believe.
    The size of Texas or bigger. How is that not impressive?


  • #17
    SuprSi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,932 ✭✭✭SuprSi


    Does it have a flag?


  • #18
    mojesius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Twice the size of Texas apparently:

    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/pacific-trash-vortex-signifies-future-of-oceans.php

    http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex/

    or, to put it in more realistic terms, twice as big as the meteor in Armageddon.


  • #19
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM


  • #20
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    The size of Texas or bigger. How is that not impressive?

    Because it's invisible to the naked eye!! When I read "giant island of rubbish" I expect to be able to climb to the top and plant a flag claiming it in my name. Or, at the very least see the bloody thing!


  • #21
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    You should prove your point :P

    All the proof you need is in your own linked piece.


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