Posted on 05/13/2019 5:39:43 PM PDT by fruser1
A record-setting dive into the world's deepest and most mysterious underwater trench proves that even the most remote places on Earth aren't immune to plastic waste.
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The trench is actually a pretty good place to put garbage as it's a subduction zone so stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes.
Pretty neat!
Never thought of it as a good place for trick-or-treating.
It’s the perfect place for spent nuclear fuel.
My first trip to Israel was in 1990 (in fact, I landed on the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait - it was an interesting, and sonic-boom filled, trip). Anyway, just outside the Jaffa Gate leading into the Old City of Jerusalem was a pit about 20 feet deep. It was fenced off, and marked as an archeological dig. I leaned over and found, to my surprise, that my ancestors also drank Coca Cola. Imagine, we even have similar tastes - since then I’ve felt a much closer kinship to the ancient Israelites!
And that thing the size of the period at the end of this sentence was a styrofoam cup .
I have an alibi.
Aliens were eating the candy down there , a guilt thing, and who knew, that is how we got Skittles
What language was on the wrappers and bag? It probably wasn’t English, or they would have told us.
95% of the trash in the ocean comes from 5 rivers... None of these rivers flow out of a Western country.
Yet there is life down there. Little fishes!
If life can exist seven miles under water, there's no reason why there can't be life on any of the planets in our solar system. Now I'm not talking intelligent life necessarily, just little fishes, worms, crabs and Democrats.
The trench is actually a pretty good place to put garbage as it’s a subduction zone so stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes
“That crab appears to be waving something in it’s claw. It looks like a note!”
“Incredible! What’s it say???”
“Send...more...canned...meat?!?”
Wasn’t us surface dwellers. Twas the Atlantean’s fault for littering.
Yeah, the Mariana Trench, near China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and all. “Free trade,” accompanying population explosions and drains on resources...
The solution is to ban plastic bags and candy wrappers in addition to everything else.
I’m sorry, but anyone who can dive 36,000 feet gets an Olympic medal.
Cannonball!
“Now I’m not talking intelligent life necessarily, just little fishes, worms, crabs and Democrats.”
LOL! :)
Dang, never thought of that. Dump our rubbish down the gullet of an active volcano - geothermal waste disposal. Nah, won’t work, the ecoNazis will still find something to bitch about. Sumanumbastiches aren’t happy unless they’re miserable.
Somebody should buy a barge and fill it up to go to the trench.
I’m tired of hauling all my trash all the way to The Grand Canyon.
I cry bullshit. Publicity stunt.
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