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It's alive alright, just unaccessible every now and then.

getting nothing but "We're sorry, this video is no longer available."
here and at the youtube source page.

i found another copy online in the meantime anyway.
nice work on the title for beck's segment.

April 2rd?

^Yes April tword

Hey Bill, that garbage patch isn't what you think.

You see there are areas in the ocean where currents push flotsam into massive eddies where it gets trapped and doesn't float away, known as a gyre. There are many of them. The one you're referring to is massive, between 700,000 - 15 million km². They estimate that there is 100 million tonnes of debris in it, but when you factor in the size of the area, it works out to 5.1 milligrams per cubic meter of water. So while it might sound big when you describe it as a "floating island of trash twice the size of texas" if you were out on a boat, in the middle of the gyre, you'd likely never see a piece of floating trash.

Mind you, that I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about garbage polluting our oceans, just that over aggrandizing they situation just makes you and everyone who believes you look like jackasses.

^HollywoodBob

You mean this garbage patch?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Seas-of-Plastic

Giant Sarah Palin...
Isn't there a Japanese monster movie with one of those in there?

>> ^notarobot:
^HollywoodBob
You mean this garbage patch?
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Seas-of-Plastic


Yeah that's the one, you'll notice that he doesn't show any islands of trash or even any photos of trash floating in the ocean. But damn that was a lot of bottle caps.

I never said it wasn't something we should be concerned about, I was just commenting on how disingenuous it is to describe it as an "island twice the size of Texas".

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>> ^HollywoodBob:
I never said it wasn't something we should be concerned about, I was just commenting on how disingenuous it is to describe it as an "island twice the size of Texas".

Oh noes! Bill used some hyperbole to emphasize what a huge f**king problem garbage is! Honestly, I'd never expect such egregious behaviour from a comedy segment; what a lying douchemonkey! I mean, it's not like the people who watch his show are smart enough to figure out that Bill exaggerates for effect, and there isn't Texas sized garbage floating around!

In a related note, did you know that most of the infinity of space is actually space, and is not filled with garbage as Bill claims?

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