Trash Vortex

[dawnghost]

Scary.

A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.


The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.


Continues here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...at-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html

 

[The Emptier]

what the fuck i want pics

 

[OvSeth]

Man basically dug his own grave with this one.. Now people are realizing it's too late to do something.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Fetzer]

Yeah Hubert Reeves talked about that when I saw his conference.


ITT: Fetzer being there to say he saw conferences of Hubert Reeves.

 

[Nikki]

East Coast, ftw.

 

[Undefined]

Oh man.

LET'S GO FOR A FUCKING SWIM!!

 

[Undefined]

Seriously, this is pretty fucked, I can't even imagine how bad this will be in 10 years, 25 years..50 years I don't know if it's even possible to clean this? 10 metres deep and twice the size of the continental US... seems like an impossible task. I mean even under the strictest guidelines and a great deal of effort it would take decades to even begin to clean up what currently exists. I doubt constant work by both sides (consumers) making sure they use as little plastic as possible and ensure it doesn't end up in the ocean (the people on boats/oil rigs especially) and the plastic industry could even resolve this. This is something that people will just turn a blind eye too until it's too late. When the 'plastic soup' begins spewing its contents on the coasts of both North American and Asia then people will take notice... but I bet only the people affected will care at that point anyways.


lol apathy.

 

[Fetzer]

lol apathy.

No, ataraxia.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

damn, i thought this thread was going to make fun of Vortex just to piss off Heartless

 

[SomeoneWild]

^I thought the same thing

 

[DarKxStaR]

It would make a nice tourist attraction. I wonder how much thicker it needs to get before people can start living on it.

 

[guardian_of_fate]

They'll have to eventually come up with some way to get the whole mass of it and shoot it into space. Then after floating around for years, it will hit some alien planet. They'll get pissed and shoot it back at us........................and set it on fire. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis will have to go up in a rocket and plant explosives on it so it breaks apart before hitting us. That would be pretty epic.

 

[SteveMCsteve]

you know sometimes i think humans are better off dead. Seriously.

 

[marfal66]

They'll have to eventually come up with some way to get the whole mass of it and shoot it into space. Then after floating around for years, it will hit some alien planet. They'll get pissed and shoot it back at us........................and set it on fire. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis will have to go up in a rocket and plant explosives on it so it breaks apart before hitting us. That would be pretty epic.

Or it won't float far enough and gets stuck in our atmosphere. The sun won't reach the earth enough and a new ice-age would be created. Also, the thick layer will start producing poisonous fumes when getting heated by the sun and smoke/freeze us to death. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis...................pretty epic.

you know sometimes i think humans are better off dead. Seriously.

Of course are humans better off dead, but it's way too late for that. The earth evolved well since its birth (about 4.5 billion years?) till a few thousand years ago, even maybe a few hundred years, then the pollution started increasing greatly since the Industrial Revolution.
I really don't believe that this damage can ever be recovered and that most lifeforms (also humans) won't survive for another 500 years.
No mercy for the pathetic human race, scum of earth.

 

[Knarfi]

They'll have to eventually come up with some way to get the whole mass of it and shoot it into space. Then after floating around for years, it will hit some alien planet. They'll get pissed and shoot it back at us........................and set it on fire. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis will have to go up in a rocket and plant explosives on it so it breaks apart before hitting us. That would be pretty epic.

Or it won't float far enough and gets stuck in our atmosphere. The sun won't reach the earth enough and a new ice-age would be created. Also, the thick layer will start producing poisonous fumes when getting heated by the sun and smoke/freeze us to death. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis...................pretty epic.

i lold

 

[snowy]

you know sometimes i think humans are better off dead. Seriously.

kill yourself? that's a start

 

[Knarfi]

kill yourself? that's a start

wtf

i remember you as a nice person, not a swabs-like bastard

 

[SteveMCsteve]

They'll have to eventually come up with some way to get the whole mass of it and shoot it into space. Then after floating around for years, it will hit some alien planet. They'll get pissed and shoot it back at us........................and set it on fire. Then there will be some kinda scenario where Bruce Willis will have to go up in a rocket and plant explosives on it so it breaks apart before hitting us. That would be pretty epic.

yes BUT
before he pushes the button there has to be a scence where he stays behind and sacrifices his life so that his daughter can marry Ben Affleck.

 

[guardian_of_fate]

GODDAMN YOU BEN AFFLECK! WWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!??????????????

 

[MegustaMucho]

damnit, this sucks! everytime I hear about news like this I wonder what can we do?

It's problably too late like all of you say but I think that we can still make some efforts to not make it worse