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Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing
sciencehabit writes Millions of tons. That's how much plastic should be floating in the world's oceans, given our ubiquitous use of the stuff. But a new study (abstract) finds that 99% of this plastic is missing. One disturbing possibility: Fish are eating it. If that's the case, "there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web," says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley. "And we are part of this food web."
tic.
Most of it is stored in a cool dark place. You know, under all that other water.
"It wanted plastic"
George Carlin
no no no, couldnt be, we have to go with the scary version, we cant go using reasonable options, how will anyone get funding for research???
Possible answers:
1) Aliens and their visits to planet earth is real and they are helping us clean up the oceans.
2) The air-planes are spraying some chemical compound or organism which break down plastic / hydrocarbons.
(3) All the plastic can be found in the Bermuda triangle.
So on so on.)
prepackaged fish sticks?
... a plastic is like a steak. It is definitely _not_ only a piece of beef, but also the sauce (which itself is made of the starchy gravy - which can be broken up to other more basic components, - the flavoring [salt, sugar, spices, and so on]), plus the added chemicals, such as the aromatics (which is largely benzene group) that were formed when that beef was put over the fire
What are you *doing* to that poor steak??? With that much shit tacked onto it, you might as well eat fishsticks.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
"I can't speak to fresh water..."
Yes you can, but it cannot speak to you...
That's impossible, those studies were conducted by the finest educational institutions with Federal research grant funding! There's no way that such work could be flawed in any way to help continue funding Al Gore's private 777.