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2021-12-02 Science & Technology

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

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-02 09:38|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 As Myron Cohen used to say, "Evabody gotta be someplace".

Posted by ed in texas 2021-12-02 13:09|| 2021-12-02 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Finally, we have a place to exile our Democratic Leadership to.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-12-02 14:13|| 2021-12-02 14:13|| Front Page Top

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

But I love your idea!

Posted by DarthVader 2021-12-02 15:05|| 2021-12-02 15:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-12-02 17:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-12-02 17:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-12-02 18:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-12-02 18:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Artificial reef. What's not to like?

Posted by KBK 2021-12-02 19:37|| 2021-12-02 19:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-12-02 19:40|| Front Page Top

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