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The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:51 pm
by Moby Dick
Just ridiculous what we (humans) have done to the oceans, etc.
I'm not one to go trying to stop my carbon footprint nor am i caught up in the whole 'going green' shit...but when i see this....kinda makes me wanna try.
http://www.oskarlewis.com/weblog/archives/5473
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:04 pm
by Rasputin
Shame on you!!! Human!!!
Fuck off, mutant.
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:25 pm
by Bobby42
Lake Erie: following a Cleveland Browns home game. And if the guy lit up a cigarette...?
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:52 pm
by jiminphilly
Reminds of the infomercial of that white guy begging for 5 cents a day to feed a villiage in some poor country. They show images of the water supply polluted much like in the picture above and kids playing on train tracks..
If they're so fucking poor then why is their water polluted with so many milk cartons and cereal boxes?? As for the kids playing on train tracks, they show that image like it's a bad thing. When I was a lot younger I used to put small stones along the train tracks and watch the amtrak trains pulverise the rocks causing sparks.
So in conclusion, maybe they need to stop throwing their cereal and milk into the water and eat it instead.
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:53 pm
by Wolfman
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:10 pm
by Bobby42
Just great. I hope there's enough left for the county and state fairs next year.
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:36 pm
by Wolfman
^^^^^^
I laughed--- good perspective !
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:01 pm
by peter dragon
wow!
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:24 am
by Louis Cyphre
I blame Dave Matthews
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:30 am
by PSUFAN
Heh heh...that reset will never get old.
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:50 am
by RumpleForeskin
88 wrote:I'm a dork
The Tri-lambs embrace your efforts.
Re: The Ocean - man's toilet bowl.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:38 am
by peter dragon
88 wrote:Maybe its time to do some math...
The article suggests there are about 100,000,000 tons of flotsom in the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean covers 60,045,000 square miles.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8o.html
That would be 1.67 tons per square mile. A ton is 2,000 pounds. So that is 3,330 lbs of floating plastic per square mile.
A square mile is 5,280' x 5,280'. This means that there is 27,878,400 square feet per square mile.
That means there is about 0.0001194473140495867768595041322314 lbs of plastic per square foot in the Pacific Ocean.
That is the same as 0.0019111570247933884297520661157025 ounces per square foot of ocean.
An ounce weighs 28350 miligrams.
So there are about 54.18 miligrams of plastic per square foot of Pacific Ocean.
A grain of rice weighs 20-30 miligrams.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does ... rice_weigh
So the amount of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean is equivalent to about 2 grains of rice per square foot.
I think we'll be OK.
When does Kevin Bacon come into play? im lost..