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Floating island of rubbish three times size of BRITAIN floating towards California
Mirror UK ^
| 11-5-13
| Christopher Bucktin
Posted on 11/06/2013 8:45:11 AM PST by 444Flyer
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To: 444Flyer
Why don’t we just build some golf courses and resorts on it?
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:54:42 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Paul46360
--noticed that too--and I believe the figure quoted was either one or five million tons.
--struck me that even five million tons of anything spread out over Texas would be a mighty thin layer---
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:54:45 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: Paul46360
Texas is indeed three times the size of Britain.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:54:57 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: fwdude
Come on now.
We do the best we can.
You can’t find anywhere else that has the weather, ocean, mountains, arts, sports, etc like we got.
And the weather?
Only other spot is Chile with it’s coast and mountains.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:55:11 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: 444Flyer
Obama order this so he could walk across the water on his next Hawiian Vacation.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:55:14 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Paul46360
Yesterdays posting said the size was Texas..???
IT IS ALIVE, ITS ALIVE!!!
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:56:35 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: 444Flyer
Dump waste oil on it and drop a few flares! Instant glo-bull warming!
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:56:52 AM PST
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: laplata
"There are a lot of good people in California." There are. If only they could to take it back! Libs have ruined the culture, beauty and resources of the once great state.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:57:00 AM PST
by
444Flyer
(How long O LORD?)
To: Paul46360
Yesterdays posting said the size was Texas..???
Yeah, they should settle on a size comparison we can all agree on, like "smaller than obama's head" or something like that.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:57:36 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: 444Flyer
I'm trying to picture just how "thick" this debris is...it's not as if there's something the size of Texas that you could walk across without sinking, after all. Let's see: It sounds as if the debris "field" is about 300,000 square miles in size, with 5 million tons of stuff floating around. That's about 17 tons per square mile.
Not exactly a solid island, but still a lot of debris, and the larger pieces are probably navigation hazards.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:58:21 AM PST
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Tenacious 1
Sure does. Texas’ area in square miles (268,820) divided by the area of the island of Britain (88,745) works out to about 3.03.
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:58:39 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
To: fwdude
Yet another bucketmouth from Texas...
What a surprise!
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posted on
11/06/2013 8:59:41 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: fwdude
Somehow, someway... the legislature will find a way to tax it.
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posted on
11/06/2013 9:00:15 AM PST
by
444Flyer
(How long O LORD?)
To: fwdude
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posted on
11/06/2013 9:00:43 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 444Flyer
I need to call Michael Bay, I have a movie idea.
To: 444Flyer
5 million tons is less than 2 square miles, assuming a depth of a yard.
Put another way, it is about 10-12% of the trash California produces in any given year.
To: 444Flyer
Debris which has been collected with what looks to be Japanese writing on it and could be related to the Japanese tsunami.
Seriously? The Mirror couldn't locate an expert who could confirm whether or not that is, in fact, "Japanese writing" on it?
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posted on
11/06/2013 9:02:55 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
and know The Usurper loves golf. He can go and golf there and ooops that land sank. O well sometimes things happen. =)
To: 444Flyer
Reminds me of the floating island in Snowcrash.
Beware a large man with “POOR IMPULSE CONTROL” tattooed on his forhead...
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posted on
11/06/2013 9:03:18 AM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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