After browsing the www.unknowncountry.com site, this story sounds like satire or an urban legend. I doubt it is true. The clue as to why this is untrue: "... in places so tightly compressed that a small plane could be landed on it." Like, how did the author actually determine this? And who's terrirotiral waters is this stuff drifting in or towards?
Come on, folks! Are y'all that gullible? George Captain THe USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, but I have to stop laughing in order to make a comment... > > M C Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hmmmm...I don't think enough men USE condoms to make such a huge 'reef'. > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: 06/01/05 14:25:56 > To: Christopher deMorsella; scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] FW: NEWS: Vast Condom Horror in Pacific > > -----Original Message----- > From: GIRLFRIEND [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Apryl N. Paris > > http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4636 > > A huge floating reef made up of millions of disposed condoms has been discovered in the mid Pacific. The condom mass is two miles long, up to sixty feet deep, and in places so tightly compressed that a small plane could be landed on it. > > The mass was discovered by the Australian Oceanographic Laboratory Outpost on Macquarie Island in the South Pacific. Scientists there explained that the accumulation, which consists almost exclusively of condoms, is explained by a principle of physics called "like aggregation." Like aggregation is caused by the massing of similar objects due to ocean currents and winds, the response of the objects to the earth's magnetic field, and other factors. > > The tendency of dust to clump and mass in a house or under a bed is > explained by the same principle. > > The Australian scientists are mapping the reef by satellite because it is a serious marine hazard. The world disposes of an estimated 300 million condoms a year. > > Art credit: http://www.freeimages.co.uk > > This could be an environmental catastrophe. > > You get news here you won't find anywhere else. Keep us going: subscribe to unknowncountry.com today! There are lots of advantages, including a special weekly interview just for you. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
