Saw this study today:

World-First Study Reveals That There Is up to 100x More Plastic on the Ocean Floor Than the Surface - APRIL 12, 2024

https://scitechdaily.com/world-firs...an-the-surface/

...estimates up to 11 million (metric) tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

Golly, that sounds SCARY!!!!

11,000,000 tons / 100 = 110,000 tons (surface plastic).

11,000,000 (seabed plastic) + 110,000 tons (surface plastic) = 11,110,000 metric tons of plastic total

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The World Factbook - Ocean volume

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factb...d/ocean-volume/

Arctic Ocean volume: 18,750,000 cubic km

Atlantic Ocean volume: 310,410,900 cubic km

Indian Ocean volume: 264,000,000 cubic km

Pacific Ocean volume: 669,880,000 cubic km

Southern Ocean volume: 71,800,000 cubic km

Total oceanic volume: 1,316,092,775 cubic km

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Can't guarantee no math errors, but you'll get the general idea:

1,000,000,000 cubic meters = 1 cubic km

1,316,092,775 cubic km x 1,000,000,000 cubic meters/cubic km = 1.316092775^18 total ocean volume in cubic meters

Specific Weight of Water at STP: 0.9982033 metric tons per cubic meter

0.9982033 metric tons/cubic meter x 1.316092775^18 cubic meters = 1.3137261^18 metric tons

1.111^7 metric tons total plastic mass / 1.3137261^18 metric tons total ocean mass = 8.4568485^-12

So, the total plastic mass is 1/8,456,848,500,000 or 8.457 quadrillionths of the total ocean water mass or 0.0000000008457% by weight.

So, as you can see, this is a HUGE problem! /sarc

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And here's the GREAT threat to planet Earth which can ALL fit here:

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/pho...mvB_700bwp.webp

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Plastic came from natural materials on EARTH, it has just been returned to a different SECTOR of the EARTH in a different form.

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ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

No! No! No! Get with the program. Plastic is man made, so it's EVIL because WE aren't just one PART of nature like every other animal on Earth! /sarc

"Plastic came out of the Earth; the Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn't know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: "Why are we here?" Plastic, [plural anal reference]! - George Carlin

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The other day I sat next to a woman who has a profound fear of flying. I wanted to comfort her, so I said, "Don't worry, we're not gonna' crash. Statistically, we got a better chance of being bitten by a shark." Then I showed her the scar on my elbow from a shark attack. I said, "I got this when my plane went down off of Florida." - Dennis Regan

George Carlin is my absolute favorite comic.

"I'm in shape; ROUND IS a SHAPE !"

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Data is a funny thing isn't it.

I bet there are 1000x more rocket boosters at the bottom off the coast of Florida than are at the surface as well. Of course, we gotta have a Falcon booster floating in on a barge for the math to work out, otherwise, 1000 x 0 is zero.

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