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The ocean is big though. I think the headline writer was imagining the piles of sugar if you pulled it all out of the water and stacked it up.
by dwighttk 4y ago
The ocean is big though. I think the headline writer was imagining the piles of sugar if you pulled it all out of the water and stacked it up.
- BoiledCabbage 4y agoI mean with that logic, there are mountains of lint in people's pockets. And mountains of cobwebs in their basements. Just about everything forms a mountain if you combine all instances of it in the world into a big pile. If anything, it'd only be notable if something didn't form a mountain when piled.
- dwighttk 4y agoImagine if lint was a well known food for bacteria and all the sudden it might be notable if bacteria were leaving it alone in pockets
- umvi 4y agoIt's notable because it's free energy that isn't being consumed for some reason. Sprinkle some sugar on the ground outside and ants will swoop in and grab it in minutes.
- justinclift 4y ago> ants will swoop in and grab it in minutes. That's not universally true. Saying that because I've personally accidentally dropped a 1kg bag of white sugar on the ground outside years ago which split open. I just left the sugar there, figuring ants would clean it up. Nope. Nothing touched it for around a week, until it rained, at which point it went away. Maybe the ants had a glucose syrup snack instead. ;)
- patall 4y agoAre you Dutch? 1g of lint per human is ~8,000 tons, which at 4g/cm3 is a cube of ~14m. Mountains are huge ;)
- hoseja 4y agoSeagrass only grows in the shallows.
- dwighttk 4y agoNot as big, but still pretty big.