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Animals and plants are now LIVING on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch! Floating mass of plastic twice the size of Texas is home to anemones, hydroids and shrimp-like amphipods, study reveals
2021-12-02
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Next thing you know, the Chinese will claim it as their territory. In their favor, it is 90% Chinese garbage.
Posted by: Injun Sputing7214   2021-12-02 19:40  

#8  Artificial reef. What's not to like?
Posted by: KBK   2021-12-02 19:37  

#7  I wouldn't be surprised if there was something living on some of the space junk up there. And I'm not even thinking of the ISS...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-02 18:56  

#6  Pure nonsense. I wouldn't be caught dead in such a puffed up, pretentious place. If Texas was big enough for Jesus, it's big enough for me.
Posted by: Anne Nemone   2021-12-02 18:54  

#5  Funny thing about the garbage patch is once people started to go out looking for it they decided it was all microplastics and thus invisible to the naked eye. Lacking photos journalists just used images of Manilla harbor.

The whole thing stinks.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-12-02 17:40  

#4  Any shelter in a desert.

Seems like I saw a story predict this back when it was the new orhmygosh! story.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-12-02 17:31  

#3  CrazyFool you made me shoot coffee out my nose.

But I love your idea!
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-12-02 15:05  

#2  Finally, we have a place to exile our Democratic Leadership to.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-12-02 14:13  

#1  As Myron Cohen used to say, "Evabody gotta be someplace".
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-12-02 13:09  

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