19-year-old Dutch kid ready to clean up the ocean

[merithyn]

Yes.

Doesn't make it any less valuable, I think. If it makes money, I guess that's a bonus.

[Caliga]

Serious question: is there really that much trash in the ocean?  I know there's that Pacific Garbage Patch thing, but isn't that in the part of the ocean that's basically a 'desert' and doesn't have much surface life?

[derspiess]

He also says that he wishes that weren't the case, that he wished people would do it because it's the right thing to do, but he recognizes that that's not how the world works today.

Awwwww.

[lustindarkness]

Yes.

Doesn't make it any less valuable, I think. If it makes money, I guess that's a bonus.

Yes.

[CountDeMoney]

So you admit you are holding an insincere stance?

No, I am holding an obnoxious stance.

[lustindarkness]

Serious question: is there really that much trash in the ocean?  I know there's that Pacific Garbage Patch thing, but isn't that in the part of the ocean that's basically a 'desert' and doesn't have much surface life?

Could it be a dead area because of all the plastic particles floating there? Or was it dead before?

BTW, there was some pictures in the news recently of a big garbage patch flaoting in the pacific with a lot of the Japanese sunami trash. It looked like a lot to me.

[garbon]

So you admit you are holding an insincere stance?

No, I am holding an obnoxious stance.

If you are willing to relax the pose once a positive change occurs for your own person, doesn't seem sincerely held.

[merithyn]

Serious question: is there really that much trash in the ocean?  I know there's that Pacific Garbage Patch thing, but isn't that in the part of the ocean that's basically a 'desert' and doesn't have much surface life?

According to this kid, it's pretty pervasive. He's done a good bit more research on it than I have, so I'll defer to his knowledge.

[garbon]

Serious question: is there really that much trash in the ocean?  I know there's that Pacific Garbage Patch thing, but isn't that in the part of the ocean that's basically a 'desert' and doesn't have much surface life?

Could it be a dead area because of all the plastic particles floating there? Or was it dead before?

BTW, there was some pictures in the news recently of a big garbage patch flaoting in the pacific with a lot of the Japanese sunami trash. It looked like a lot to me.

According to wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

The patch is not easily visible because it consists of very small pieces, almost invisible to the naked eye, most of its contents are suspended beneath the surface of the ocean, and the relatively low density of the plastic debris at, in one scientific study, 5.1 kilograms of plastic per square kilometer of ocean area.

[merithyn]

He also says that he wishes that weren't the case, that he wished people would do it because it's the right thing to do, but he recognizes that that's not how the world works today.

Awwwww.

How condescending. Personally, I agree with him, as do most people I would hazard a guess.

[derspiess]

He also says that he wishes that weren't the case, that he wished people would do it because it's the right thing to do, but he recognizes that that's not how the world works today.

Awwwww.

How condescending. Personally, I agree with him, as do most people I would hazard a guess.

I'm not looking down on you, dear.  Just the kid.

[merithyn]

I'm not looking down on you, dear.  Just the kid.

I'm aware.

[Valmy]

I'm not looking down on you, dear.  Just the kid.

Yeah what a loser.  At 19 I had 100 Engineers working on a feasbility study for my ideas.

[Ed Anger]

I think it's cute that Meri went all Timmay over this.

[PDH]

Worthless.  In a couple of decades I am dead and I won't care.  Why be bothered about it now?