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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sun Mar 23, 2014, 01:08 PM Mar 2014

What we have learned: There's a lot of 70 foot long wads of refuse in the ocean

We are up to four, five... maybe six breathless reports of satellite discoveries of "possible objects" (a wonderful phrase) from various places that Malaysian plane might have been.

And there seem to be more than their fair share in the 20-25 meter range.

Since they are obviously not all the plane (and perhaps none are the plane) this suggests that if we turn our attention to just about any sector of the oceans we will find "possible objects" of that size.

That doesn't necessarily mean that size is a favorite of floating refuse, of course—"possible objects" larger than a plane are ignored and possible objects too small to see are overlooked, so the parameters of the search itself will tend to notice refuse fields of a certain size range.

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What we have learned: There's a lot of 70 foot long wads of refuse in the ocean (Original Post) cthulu2016 Mar 2014 OP

There's loads of garbage in the ocean and no plan to clean it up. Cleita Mar 2014 #1

70' foot? Heck there are whole garbage islands... n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #2

A site I came by recently..and garbage didn't just appear in the Oceans; we put it there... Tikki Mar 2014 #3

I was shocked to learn that Mojo Electro Mar 2014 #4

Cleita

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1. There's loads of garbage in the ocean and no plan to clean it up.

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 01:15 PM

Mar 2014

We humans are disgusting litterbugs. If there is one material I would ban worldwide it's plastic. I can actually remember back during the forties of not having much that was plastic in our household. Household cleaning chemicals were pretty simple too. Baking soda, ammonia, borax, bleach, plain old soap and for hard jobs scouring powder.