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- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -4/+271Australia is not garbage!
- BrettFromTibet, on 10/28/2007, -3/+117where is it? is this for real? I want pics!!!
- prcrimm1, on 10/30/2007, -12/+107A giant garbage Island? There since 1950? We are just now hearing about it! From the denizens of San Fran no less! I think I smell a fragrant pile.
- pshelston, on 10/24/2007, -8/+73Shouldn't we be able to see this on Google Maps/Earth?
- sjbdallas, on 10/23/2007, -2/+65Hmmm, if it's that big i guess there should be plenty of pictures? Maybe some video of some folks walking across it?
- cmearns, on 10/24/2007, -5/+65Wow. Twice the size of Texas? That means that I could walk 2/3 of the way to Hawaii from San Francisco.
"Floating somewhere". Sheesh. If you're going to lie, at least make it plausible. - timpkmn89, on 10/23/2007, -5/+64I guess Google Earth just filled in all the ocean parts with Photoshop
- JRL40K, on 10/23/2007, -2/+53Maybe we should launch it into space and then make a porno movie about it.
- galeninjapan, on 10/25/2007, -14/+63Oh please, does the author even know how big texas is? Texas is ***** huge for an island. There is no way a pile of trsh the size of texas exists in the ocean without us knowing it.
BTW, it took me over a day to get across the state. - on9star, on 10/24/2007, -2/+48Is the Pirate Bay still looking for an island?
- xero69, on 10/23/2007, -3/+47Oscar the grouch says: "Get the f*ck off my island!"
- Slump, on 10/23/2007, -3/+44Here's a documentary video about it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3892310789 ... - Jsmuli2, on 10/23/2007, -2/+39It's like a today version of that Futurama Episode....
In fact, we can learn from that episode....if only we create another floating ball of garbage we could make it collide with the existing one thus bouncing it away from America!!! - phantoms5000, on 10/23/2007, -2/+28We should take the Futurama approach, and just launch it into space.
- Lochie, on 10/23/2007, -1/+26New York City: The year 2000. The most wasteful society in the history of the galaxy and it was running out of places to empty its never-ending output of garbage. The landfills were full. New Jersey was full.
- jmkiii, on 10/23/2007, -2/+25Let me know when we can drive to China. I wonder if we will still have oil by then.
- snyperr2s, on 10/23/2007, -2/+22pics or it didnt happen
- srodolff, on 10/25/2007, -13/+32Just blame global warming.
- eratix, on 10/23/2007, -8/+26Pictures or it didn't happen.
- bremstrong, on 10/23/2007, -0/+18Where are the garbage powered robotic garbage eating boats when you need them?
- WiseWeasel, on 10/23/2007, -9/+27Here are some references after a brief google search for "great pacific garbage patch":
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/ ...
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Pacific-Gar ...
http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-gar ...
Looks like "island" might be a bit of a stretch... vast area with high concentration of floating junk would be a more appropriate description... - subterfuge, on 10/23/2007, -1/+16if it was really an island twice the size of texas, it should be easily visible from space
- allahuakbar, on 10/25/2007, -2/+17I for one welcome our new trash heap overlords.
- Ozzsanity, on 10/23/2007, -1/+16I helped make that island. During my service in the US Navy we would throw the trash from the ship overboard. It was bagged and we would just poke holes in the bags and throw them overboard
- WiseWeasel, on 10/23/2007, -0/+14Woops, fixed links:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/ ...
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Pacific-Gar ...
http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-gar ...
Damn you, broken Digg comments! - jus1haz2, on 10/25/2007, -0/+14Its going to be the new home of the PirateBay
- Pile, on 10/23/2007, -0/+14http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-l ...
Here's a cool animated map of the vortex:
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/new ... - TheJokerV, on 10/28/2007, -2/+16 No because google doesn't waste their time and resources analyzing the oceans. They just fill in the ocean areas with blue on google earth.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/23/2007, -0/+13With gusto?
- swatward, on 10/23/2007, -5/+18I'm calling shenanigans. If it's 2x the size of Texas, I'm sure you could see it.
- scrimaxinc, on 10/23/2007, -0/+13Well it isn't called Google Land either, brothaman. I expect more from Google. Wouldn't it be sweet to see pods of 20-30 Orcas swimming off the coast of Alaska?
- Davekcon, on 10/23/2007, -2/+15good story
- Urusai, on 10/23/2007, -7/+19Now we have garbage IN office.
- pyrewyrm, on 10/23/2007, -8/+20What a load of crap. I'm a merchant mariner and we have several publications devoted toward hazards at sea. Never in my life have I EVER seen a notice about a floating garabage pile nor does any of my resources even indicate the presence of such an object... Something the size of Texas? And a ship hasn't hit it yet? BS.
- Tiggums, on 10/29/2007, -1/+13twice the size of texas though, we're not trying to find something tiny here, I'm pretty sure we'd notice something... I say the "pics or it didn't happen" applies here, that and rule 34...
- dan222555, on 10/23/2007, -0/+11How do you cruise through an island on a boat?
- overtoke, on 10/24/2007, -2/+13kill yourself
- whiskeymb, on 10/23/2007, -2/+13I guess few people get the Futurama reference....
- codered1322, on 10/23/2007, -9/+19Manbearpig!
- Lionhart, on 10/23/2007, -4/+14Couldn't we pinpoint its exact location using a Smelloscope?
PLEASE get the reference - pandlcg, on 10/23/2007, -0/+10Wikipedia has some info on why it accumulates, but no pics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre - Automatt, on 10/23/2007, -5/+14I wish they could get better at displaying 2/3 of the world's surface but then again it's not called Google Ocean
- natedouglas, on 10/25/2007, -0/+9Maybe in mid seal-snack? That'd pwn.
- brownhound, on 10/23/2007, -11/+19no - it's clearly cheney & bush's fault. we didn't have garbage before they took office.
- jguy584, on 10/23/2007, -1/+9Its a vortex that is a size of two texas's, its not an island, it is just a very big area with an extremely high garbage content. The area looks like just water, but when you mearsure out the ratio of sea life to garbage its something like 10 parts garbage to 1 part life.
- Legato, on 10/23/2007, -7/+15insert futurama quote/reference here
- Ibox, on 10/23/2007, -2/+10I wouldn't go to the greenpeace site if they had porn there.
- santaliqueur, on 10/23/2007, -2/+10PLEASE don't ruin your reference with "please get this reference". Also, you're about the 5th person to reference Futurama so far.
- Gustomucho, on 10/23/2007, -3/+11The word recycling comes to mind.
- Valadian, on 10/23/2007, -1/+9The Sargasso Sea is in the Atlantic Ocean dumbass.
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