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Whats the bar for the amount/type of data an individual needs to collect for the random trash they discard in the sea to be "science"?

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  Pretty low. Successfully crafting it, getting it off the ground, and having it go as far as the ocean without popping is a pretty good accomplishment providing value disproportionate to cost. More environmental damage was likely done fabricating the plastics in the balloon than crashing it into the sea.
  • jakear 4y ago
    I spend most of my days picking up trash from the ocean (<1 mile away from me). Suffice to say, our perceptions of the difficulty and nobility of throwing trash into it are vastly different.
    • shadowgovt 4y ago
      What percentage of that trash is scientific experiments?
      • jakear 4y ago
        Well trash just looks like trash when its trash, so it's hard to say for sure. Definitely enough mylar to really get some fantastic data.