>> ^honkeytonk73:
I suspect this was one creature Noah didn't have to save from the great flood. It just floated its way through the magical great flood from the sky until all the water drained from the world.. once God decided to unplug the big drain somewhere in the deepest recesses of the Pacific Ocean.


Until it starved to death sometime before the 40 days and nights were up... X D

I suspect this was one creature Noah didn't have to save from the great flood. It just floated its way through the magical great flood from the sky until all the water drained from the world.. once God decided to unplug the big drain somewhere in the deepest recesses of the Pacific Ocean.

As HollywoodBob said, they are washed away from streets or coastal areas. also a lot of is from the ships that traverse the Pacific ocean. Over the short 40-50 years of plastic history, all those ships that went around the Pacific ocean pretty much just dumped all the garbage they produced while traveling into the ocean, since it is a "vast" place. What people over that period failed to realize till recent;y is that the "North Pacific Subtropical Gyre" formed by all the currents around Pacific ocean have pushed all the trash into one location forming the "great garbage patch". Since the only way for these man made polymers to degrade is UV ray from the sun over a long long exposure.(No microbes can break down plastic yet) being in the water shielded most of it from UV ray making it takes even longer to photodegrade.


>> ^ravioli:
To me it's not clear how this garbage actually leaves the dumps and ends in the ocean. It's not just stuff left on the beach that's pulled by the waves. It's not just stuff thrown overboard by seamen. It must be transported and conveniently dumped in the ocean while no one is looking. Probably the cheapest way to get rid of garbage, and it's been going on a large scale for decades. Ships travel between Asia and America with marchandise on one way, and have to be filled with something on their return. I wonder if half of all the plastic bottles sent to China for recycling ever get there.
Please AQUAMAN!! We need you!!

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In a state right next to Russia? O, you mean across the Pacific Ocean? Or is he remembering back in his youth when there was a land bridge connecting the two continents.

Hawaii's governor knows all about China and North Korea then.
Maine's governor is the chief economic advisor for European eceonmics.
Florida is the closest state to the middle east. What an idiot.

Keep repeating those talking points McInsane

hmm...ok then.
I guess I just assumed that the "free speech zone" was generally defined by the Canadian and Mexican border as well as the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Then again I just might be old school...

To each their own I guess, its very easy to ignore if you wish, but the only scientists who are denying climate change are those who are being paid by those who profit from reaping the planet of the resources.

The pollution we put in the water is killing reefs, life and changing the currents of the ocean.

The pollution we put in the air is changing the environment and melting glaciers that have been around for longer then us.

Extreme weather has always been around, its just now we have proof that what we are doing is helping create more extreme weather. Katrina for example would not have been as powerful if the ocean hadn't warmed up in the past few decades. Warmner equals more evaporation etc... I'm not a science teacher or anything but the facts are very easy for any educated human to read.

Sure.. It could be a big scam or ploy brewed up by the world leaders and conspired on by global scientists...But at the rate we are going at we'll have no clean lakes, no tropical rainforest's and no coral reefs during my lifetime oh, and a garbage dump in the pacific ocean the size of texas.

I've always said, who cares about the Global Warming/climate change debate its more about doing whats best to keep this planet (and its citizens) healthy.

If a simple change to Clean energy will clean the air. Why not?
If a simple change to making corporations responsible for their pollution will clean the oceans and save the reefs. Why Not?
If a simple change to our diet will save the tropical rainforest. Why not?

or are we a point of no return, where we best spend the rest of our days fighting for power of the remaining natural resources and consuming them as fast as possible...because at the rate we are going at today, we're pretty fucked.

Global Warming can be argued, easily argued especially by people who know nothing about science (like myself) but I grew up in Ontario, and in the last 10 years we have been introduced to "Smog" its an unpleasant haze that hangs above the city making it near impossible to breath on a hot summer day. If we can fix that by simply changing our auto motors to emit no pollution? Why Not?

"And so, Theodore Donald Kerabatsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been...we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean."

It's really hard to watch this with someone who doesn't "get" this type of humor without cracking up and blurting out a strained laugh and feeling rather embarrassed afterwards, with surreal situations/dialogue like this. The "money dropoff" scene is also HILARIOUS. Walter Sobchak reminds me of one of my good friends in so many ways, wonder if he's ever seen The Big Lebowski.