Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 25, 2015

Must’ve been in Ruphus’ will to be interred with his favorite chair.

I’m not sure that I’m not sure<?>

That garbage patch isn’t the only one, there are patches in the other oceans as well, and are essentially created by the swirl of the various ocean’s current.

It’s also something that can’t be seen from space, or even from a casual boater, unless they’re looking for it. In essence, four particles per square meter define it, and the bulk of those particles are microscopic in size…

Now, while the accumulation of garbage like that is a concern, it’s not at all like the visual image everyone is portraying it to be. Until I did my research, I was picturing essentially a giant landfill of plastic waste, as far as the eye could see, and thick enough to almost walk on. Not the case….

Serving?? Since when being a king is “serving”? To serve implies usefulness. There’s no use in a king, they are in a very narrow notch between politicians and welfare bums in the uselessness scale.

“Weren’t there people buried in their favourite cars or on their favourite motorbikes?”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some people will do ANYTHING to get attention

The British tourism agency has reported that the royal family generates close to 500 million pounds, or about $767 million, every year in tourism revenue."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Maybe they could donate some of that to an effort to clean up some of the ‘garbage patch.’

Actually, I’m amazed that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is that small.

From NOAA; “no scientifically sound estimates exist for the size or mass of these garbage patches”There are actually two not one as the blub intimates. Makes you wonder how much of Ripley’s you should “believe”

Before I read the comments section I knew there would be debate about the garbage patch. The fact that it’s there at all should bother everybody.

While I do not like this “garbage patch” in the Pacific, and want to see it remedied, the Ripley article is taking the most exaggerated estimates. Even Greenpeace, which I consider to be somewhat reliable on this, says the patch is the size of Texas, not “twice the size of the continental United States.”

The garbage patch is not visible from space, nor from satellite observations, so it has been difficult to measure or track. I would like to see an international project to recover as much of this plastic as possible. If you don’t feel badly for birds, sea turtles, and other ocean wildlife, do it for yourselves, because what goes into the ocean eventually ends up back on our tables.

I understand the concern, but what is the solution? You say IF we produced less rubbish, the problem would disappear. Any suggestions?

If it were that big, I’d expect it to appear on a world map.

Carbonic acid, not carbolic. They are two very different compounds.

I’m waiting for the day when someone discovers that between the Plastic, Steel and Aluminum in some of our oldest Garbage Dumps, they are actually Profitable to “Mine”.…

An interesting story about that gravesite here .

The “Pacific Garbage Patch” is essentially an urban myth. No verification exists – other than the same level and trustworthiness of verification for flying saucers and extraterrestrial visitors.