Explorer finds a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the ...Mariana Trench

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/13/2019 | James Pero

[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.

[tinyowl]

If there were a planet with only democrats though, they would have no one to hate and more importantly no one to produce anything or provide for them. Within weeks of their appearance they would attack each other, eat each other, if they were even willing to work that much, and finally starve.

I'm not saying there isn't life on other planets, I'm just saying the chances of finding democrat life on any planet independent of some intelligent life to keep them from the consequences of their own thinking and character ... well you have a very narrow time window on any of those planets.

Imagine the chances of being the single man on all the seas on a single boat, seeking to snap a picture of the single sea turtle in all the seas surfacing within a single 3 foot diameter hoop floating on the waters of all the seas.

This is the like the chances of coming upon the right planet at exactly the right few weeks where a solely democrat life form appeared.

The corollary is that the only way to eliminate democrats on earth is via the extinction of the entirety of the host to the parasite, that is, Trump voters.

[hanamizu]

found, to my surprise, that my ancestors also drank Coca Cola.

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I had an anthropology professor who said that archeologists hundreds of years from now would put great weight on the world-wide distribution of Coca Cola bottles. It’s strange in a way, that something that was ubiquitous in the 40s and 50s is seldom seen now, but I bet the landfills are rich with them.

[OKSooner]

+1

[Boomer]

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.

It sounds like you know more about this than I do but one of my pet peeves is humans trashing the oceans. Most of it comes from 3rd world countries that use their rivers and streams as dumpsters so it all flows out into the oceans then get around the necks of sea life or in their bellies causing death. I can't stand litter and it's even worse in the oceans. Forget climate change; that's a load of crap. Killing off species such as wild elephants and polluting the oceans is what we really need to worry about. Well; there's the over population problem but I think we're screwed (pun intended) on that one. The planet has doubled its population in under a 100 years. Another doubling will kill it by choking off land for nature. The only thing that can save us at that point is a drastic reduction in population from war, famine, or disease. Nature has a way of resetting itself if need be. I think a major reset is coming one way or the other.

[metmom]

By the time it gets through the subduction zone and ejected back through lava, I doubt there would be much left.

[Boomer]

95% of the trash in the ocean comes from 5 rivers... None of these rivers flow out of a Western country.

Very true and highly relevant.

[Boomer]

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.

Well said and that primordial slime is still where dems comes from. :D

[Wilhelm Tell]

It is sort of a secret that Coca-Cola is really an ancient Israelite invention, as you discovered with all those bottles at an archeological site. But there are those who say in the Israelites got Coca-Cola from the Phoenicians. lol.

[Gene Eric]

Pontiac: It’s the perfect place for spent nuclear fuel.

fruser1: stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes.

So what would happen to the radioactive waste the passes the mantle?

[Redcitizen]

"It’s the perfect place for spent nuclear fuel."

Bad idea. That's how kaiju like Godzilla get created.

[digger48]

Godzilla really needs to work on those thunder thighs

Lookin a bit like Hillary there, Big Fella

[Stepan12]

Deep deep waters such as the Marianas trench are excellent places to put all kinds of waste. The late, great Warren Brooks explained that.

Maybe someone was watching a movie down there and forgot to throw his popcorn and milk duds in the trash.

[Celtic Conservative]

They’re still everywhere. Not all countries have given up glass bottles. You can get mexican coke in glass bottles at dollar general.

CC

[redfreedom]

I think you just insulted the intelligence level of little fishes, worms and crabs.

But I agree with democrats existing down there, they are like cockroaches, they can live anyplace.

[Rebelbase]

Scanning headlines I thought it read, “Explorer finds a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the ...Marijuana Trench”

Like that’s news?

[Ancesthntr]

LOL, indeed.

The real shame of it is that people are pigs, especially in that part of the world. I simply cannot fathom littering, let alone in/at/on a significant historical site. The most I do is throw an apple core or a peach pit on to the side of the road...because they are biodegradable and might even grow into a tree (and, sometimes, I even feel guilty about that). Littering with actual garbage is just not something that you do.

[Captain7seas]

“I’m sorry, but anyone who can dive 36,000 feet gets an Olympic medal”.

Dang, I only made in to 1200’ back in ‘82 so, no medal.

(Never saw any plastic trash on the bottom either).

[Pontiac]

fruser1: stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes.

So what would happen to the radioactive waste the passes the mantle?

From subduction to ejection is going to take several hundred thousand years (if ever).

After subduction there is a chance that the spent fuel, being heavy metals, could migrate to the center of the core.

[fruser1]

“what would happen”

It would sink to the core.

[Bonemaker]