[Governor Dinwiddie]

They should prepare to be humbled. The ocean is unimaginably vast, changeable, and unknowable. A 2000 foot long tube is nothing. Their chance of changing the state of the ocean in any meaningful way is zero.
 

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If you look at the map at the top of the thread it looks like they are heading to one specific known garbage patch to see if they can make a dent in cleaning it up.

[Trumpet 1]

You are probably right that there is nothing that can be done to clean the plastic pollution from the oceans. Yet, if there were several of those floating booms in the more polluted areas and thousands of tons of plastic were recycled each year at a profit then my vision of unicorns and butterfly sneezes would move from fantasy to reality. Plus it is fun to hope that technology and capitalism could solve a problem. As long as it is not my money, then let them give it a try.

[Truthoverpower]

Exactly
The oceans are VAST

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ Their chance of changing the state of the ocean in any meaningful way is zero.” <<

For sure, like everything “environmental.”
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