fat boy: Twenty tons
Subby fail



Experts have revised predictions to say the debris will now reach the Midway Islands by winter and Hawaii in less than two years.

So Hawaii should expect this early December of 2013? Around the 7th, perhaps?

So, there is a chance of there being some dead bodies in there, correct?

I hope Hawaiians do the right thing and return that property to Japan.

Knowing it's going to end up washing ashore near the thugs who live in Waianae and Makaha doesn't raise my hopes very much.

Also, how long until the History Channel sees this and decides to combine "The Deadliest Catch" with "American Pickers"?

+1, Fusillade...

Ed Willy: So, there is a chance of there being some dead bodies in there, correct?

Slightly gnawed upon, but yes.

Does this mean we have to lose the spacesuits?

The article says "5 to 20 millions tons"... so subby fails, but so does the article....

Its ok guys, with all that debris passing by Midway, maybe they can scrounge enough parts to finally fix the desalination plant there.

The words "twenty million" are in caps in the headline and they mention "million" atleast a million times in the article. Yet, subby completely ignored it.

The way things are going, This stuff might be welcomed. It could at least be scavenged for junk.
Maybe the islanders will find a camera and some film, and they can make a short movie detailing their location for potential rescuers.

A short silent movie, of course.

We should just dump a bunch of diesel and tires on it and set it on fire. Then ships could use the light to navigate. It could also be a tourist attraction, plus scientists could make it burn up before it hits
Hawaii.

there was a guy
an under water guy who controlled the sea
got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
from new york and new jersey Japan
this monkey's gone to heaven Hawaii?

/huh?

Ghastly: Dairy King: The words "twenty million" are in caps in the headline and they mention "million" atleast a million times in the article. Yet, subby completely ignored it.

Yeah, 20 tonnes is just 4 tonnes more than a man who owes his soul to the company store can lift load of that number nine coal. That's hardly impressive at all.

/Not metric ton.

Haven't we known this since the earthquake?

Ghastly: Yeah, 20 tonnes is just 4 tonnes more than a man who owes his soul to the company store can lift. That's hardly impressive at all.





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NIce.

Ed Willy: So, there is a chance of there being some dead bodies in there, correct?

The bigger question is if there's enough of them to boost the tourist arrival count.

Ghastly: Yeah, 20 tonnes is just 4 tonnes more than a man who owes his soul to the company store can lift. That's hardly impressive at all.


aka Big John, Big Bad John

I hearby declare this mass Atlantis!

Mr.Man: I hearby declare this mass AtlantisNew New Jersey!


FTFY

Hopefully this won't disturb the huge pile of plastic the size of Texas floating out there

Beachcombers will be happy! (Or is that just a Canadian thing?) :)

Ghastly: I can just imagine this huge wave of soiled schoolgirl panties striking the beaches of Hawaii.

I believe they call that spring break

Ed Willy: So, there is a chance of there being some dead bodies in there, correct?

According to yesterdays article on Fark from the Boston Globe those dead bodies are likely to be renamed and sold as expensive Sushi.

That map shows the debris heading a little north for Hawaii, no? Maybe I misinterpreted it.

That also just looks like a reshop of that crazy radiation map people were slinging around right after the earthquake.

Ed Willy: Also, how long until the History Channel sees this and decides to combine "The Deadliest Catch" with "American Pickers"?

And if Mike Rowe narrates, I will watch it. Just keep the fools from "Hoarders" away. That might get ugly.

Up to 20 million tons of debris from the earthquake

How many feet in tennis shoes (new window) is that?

...That two years is assuming it doesn't get stuck in the giant pile of trash currently occupying the middle of the Pacific.

Click Click D'oh: ...That two years is assuming it doesn't get stuck in the giant pile of trash currently occupying the middle of the Pacific.

That trash pile in the Pacific Gyre is mostly foam, plastic and small floaty bits that don't protrude from the surface, so they are only impacted by currents. This debris clearly floats above the surface and is being pushed across by the Polar front, the winds that come up around Japan and cross over to the Pacific Northwest. If you follow the typical seasonal wind patterns, there's actually a greater chance that this stuff will go that route - towards BC, and Seattle, and Portland. I doubt Hawaii will be much affected.

I imagine some of this stuff will get waterlogged and sink before it hits the US coast, or broken up in storms and dispersed. But I suspect much of it will not, and it will most certainly start showing up on the coastlines unless Japan can pull of some major cleanup effort.

Yeah so what else is new? (new window)



/hot like beach sand

gamempire: Its ok guys, with all that debris passing by Midway, maybe they can scrounge enough parts to finally fix the desalination plant there.

VERY well played. Bravo.

Remember the last time several tons of surplus scrap headed from Japan towards Hawaii?

/not a repeat from 1941

Unfortunately, this debris will be hitting the U.S. much sooner.


/yeah, it's a dude
//chicks are weird

The radioactive zombies will make land fall where!?!