A continent of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean

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[phrodeau]

Are there any conservatives anywhere who actually try to conserve anything?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Does the status quo count?

 

[eyer]

Are there any conservatives anywhere who actually try to conserve anything?

Are there any liberals anywhere who aren't child molesters?

 

[phrodeau]

Are there any liberals anywhere who aren't child molesters?

Oh, is that what happened to you?

 

[phrodeau]

Does the status quo count?

Hardly. Obama's in office.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Are there any liberals anywhere who aren't child molesters?

The Catholic Church is liberal now?

 

[Liar]

There are five oceanic gyres filling up with floating trash. They are different sizes.

http://5gyres.org/

Interresting. Ta!

 

[Liar]

So...

...get back to the thread when you bozos decide which size this "continent of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean" actually is, huh?

Dude, I told you in my post.

From what I can gather, it's the "Alaska/double Texas/3-7 Spains" that refers to the size of this particular patch. The other two estimates refer to other things.

 

[badbabysitter]

god bless eyer.. he can't actually bring anything to the discussion outside of name calling and petulance

 

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[Sean Renaud]

What it comes down to to is teaching the ignorant and the uncivilized not to throw their shit in the ocean, and clean to up their shorelines.

PS: Quit whining about the blind Shrimp in the Gulf, it does nothing to bring it back. Life is tough kid, and full of risks, you win some and you lose some and learn from both.

And how do you propose we teach people, including the US Navy and Marines not to do this? And to clean up their shore lines. What is your proposed plan?

No nothing will bring it back but we can put methods in place to make it less likely that something like this will happen in the future and I think that's important. Don't you? It's not like we don't have proof that this carries a lot of risks.

 

[eyer]

Dude, I told you in my post.

From what I can gather, it's the "Alaska/double Texas/3-7 Spains" that refers to the size of this particular patch. The other two estimates refer to other things.

Your "gathering" is awfully liberal if you actually elect to swallow "3-7 Spains"...

 

[Liar]

Your "gathering" is awfully liberal if you actually elect to swallow "3-7 Spains"...

I'm sure this sentence makes sense in some language.

 

[eyer]

I'm sure this sentence makes sense in some language.

Much more than you grouping "3-7 Spains" with your "Alaska/double Texas" deal...

...and while you're struggling so: exactly which "continent" comes closest to the size of "Alaska/double Texas"?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I'm sure this sentence makes sense in some language.

It's called desperanto.

 

[TonyClifton]

My Uncle was a United States Army Air Corp navigator and flew over the Pacific Ocean dozens of times during World War II to make bombing missions on Japan.

Before he died, I asked him, "When you flew over the ocean, what did you see in that vast expanse?"

He replied, "No much, just open water. Sometimes flying fish and perhaps a whale or two."

I said, "I traveled that same route several times when I was in the Navy on a Submarine Tender stationed out of Guam. What do you think I saw?"

He replied again, "Tell me."

"Thousands of styrofoam cups and plates."

He said, "That reminds me. I need a cup of coffee."

 

[Liar]

Much more than you grouping "3-7 Spains" with your "Alaska/double Texas" deal...

Alaska: 663,268 sq mi
Texas: 268,581 sq mi. 2x Texas=537,162 sq mi
Spain: 195,364 sq mi. 3x Spain= 586,092 sq mi. (less than Alaska) 7x Spain=1,367,548 sq mi (about twice of Alaska)

Your point?

...and while you're struggling so: exactly which "continent" comes closest to the size of "Alaska/double Texas"?

Rather you show me where I said anything about continents.

But since you asked. The thing that is continent sized is the area affected by, byt not nessecarily all currently occupied by, the garbage - the North Pacific Gyre. Floaty stuff moves.

 

[renard_ruse]

Are there any conservatives anywhere who actually try to conserve anything?

I'm a right wing environmentalist. Of course, according to another thread (and apparent consensus on here), I "hate dark-skinned people." Even Bert "lifelong Republican" Notorious has chimmed in with his condemnation.

The fact that there is ZERO proof or evidence of any such sentiments on my part doesn't seem to matter.

 

[Nerdy_Harold]

Don't most large ships including our military dump their trash and sewage into the ocean?

 

[renard_ruse]

Sounds like it, even if it is real, it would be too difficult to clean this mess up.

It kind of sucks that after eff'ing up the Earth's land areas, we're now trashing the oceans too. It is what it is, I guess.

 

[eyer]

Alaska: 663,268 sq mi
Texas: 268,581 sq mi. 2x Texas=537,162 sq mi
Spain: 195,364 sq mi. 3x Spain= 586,092 sq mi. (less than Alaska) 7x Spain=1,367,548 sq mi (about twice of Alaska)

Your point?

Whadda askin' me about any "point" for? You're the one who so erroneously had to group "3-7 Spains" with the definitive sizes of "Alaska/double Texas"...

...what was your "point" in doing that, and why do you continue to let it slide?

Rather you show me where I said anything about continents.

But since you asked. The thing that is continent sized is the area affected by, byt not nessecarily all currently occupied by, the garbage - the North Pacific Gyre. Floaty stuff moves.

Dorkwad:

The thread title states...

"A continent of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean"

..."continent" does not address your fabricated "the area affected by" - it specifically describes the mass of "trash"; "the area affected by" is "the Pacific Ocean".

So, what is the mass size of this "Floaty stuff" moving?

1. "A continent"
2. "3-7 Spains"
3. "Alaska/double Texas"

3 hugely different masses of area...

...which one do you deem the preferable hyperbole?

 

[warrior queen]

Don't most large ships including our military dump their trash and sewage into the ocean?

Yes, most ships dump sewerage. But maritime law requires all inorganic waste to be stockpiled and brought back to harbour.
I'm fairly sure a lot dump their trash though.

 

[Liar]

Whadda askin' me about any "point" for? You're the one who so erroneously had to group "3-7 Spains" with the definitive sizes of "Alaska/double Texas"...

...what was your "point" in doing that, and why do you continue to let it slide?

Christ on a cracker. I even present you with the numbers. Do I need to draw you a fucking Venn diagram?
3-4 spains is dead on. While 5-7 is a bit larger.

Dorkwad:

The thread title states...

"A continent of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean"

1. Did I start the thread? Ask renard. I'm calling bullshit on your bullshit list of mixed references.
2. What size is a continent?

..."continent" does not address your fabricated "the area affected by" - it specifically describes the mass of "trash";

The linked article describing it as "twice the size of the continental US" describes the area affected.

"the area affected by" is "the Pacific Ocean".

Wrong. The area is the north pacific gyre. Due to it's self-containing surface currents, that means floaty objects get there and don't get away. Same thing that created the Atlantic Sargasso sea. (or these days the Sagasso/plastic sea).

So, what is the mass size of this "Floaty stuff" moving

Neither and irrelevant. The article vette linked deals with the mass.

1. "A continent"
2. "3-7 Spains"
3. "Alaska/double Texas"

3 hugely different masses of area...

Hugely... yeah.

...which one do you deem the preferable hyperbole?

I'll let this gem of a fallacy just hang here.

 

[Nerdy_Harold]

I threw a used condom in a creek. Just think my DNA could possibly be the building block of new life on this new continent. I am humbled.