[ExI] how to tame hurricanes

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:51 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Regarding that garbage island, I had some ideas on how to deal with that,
> but I am having my doubts now.  Is it possible the whole thing is an urban
> legend?  Why can’t I find it on Google Earth?  If it really is 90 ft thick
> in places, why wouldn’t that be worth it to go out there with a dredge and
> haul it on board and recycle or incinerate the stuff?  And why is it that
> we hear so much about all that debris ending up on Yankee beaches from that
> big tsunami in Japan, but not the debris which was supposedly already out
> there?  And why is it I never see pictures of it taken from airliners, and
> never hear of guys seeing it from aircraft over the Pacific?  I sometimes
> get a vague feeling that whole trash island notion is exaggerated.
>
>
>
I've never seen a baby pigeon either but I suspect they do exist.  :p

Surely not ALL those google images for "garbage gyre" are fake.
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