The comments on this article have made me lose a great deal of hope for humanity. Ignoring the fact that most plastic used as feedstock for makerbots is BIO-DE

The comments on this article have made me lose a great deal of hope for humanity. Ignoring the fact that most plastic used as feedstock for makerbots is BIO-DEGRADABLE, are people really concerned about the prospect of dumping a few plastic shells into the ocean? Do they realize how absurdly huge the oceans are, and how astronomically insignificant this amount of plastic would be? Besides, what's the worst case scenario here? Hermit crabs for hundreds of years are able to reuse the same shells? Oh the horror!. The absolute vitriolic comments there are gut wrenching. Even when somebody posts clarifications (such as "the plan is to use them domestically, not dump them in the ocean") they just get flamed for "back pedaling". Either project members posted this to greenpeace boards with added insulting comments about their mothers, or there surely is something going on between the Makerbot chaps and some other group of people that I'm not aware of. This is just unnatural.