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Environmental Devestation!!!

It's just too horrible ...

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4636

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Vast Condom Horror in Pacific
30-May-2005
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.

This could be an environmental catastrophe.

Are you sure the new Pope doesn't have something to do with this?

how many condoms can one pope use? its not like the little boys are going to demand that he play safe.

Damn, at least the Rubber Duckies disbursed. :eek:

Well as all condoms have individual serial numbers they should be able to tell where they come from.
Sounds like a monumental f&*k up.

Naw. Just sex on the beach.

Gosh darn it I call bullshit. Cool if true but I'm sure not. Whitley and all...... but wait a minute.......!!!!! A picture?? Someone walking on the "land a small plane thingy". Then I'm a subscriber! I'll sell 'em like Mt. St. Helens ash. Gimme the exclusive, I'll make us all stinkin' rich. (Well, me anyway).

Millions of condoms just happened to form into a highly organized mass floating through the ocean?

I think it's evidence of intelligent design! I'm going to use that the next time I'm explaining creationism to a heathen. "God must be real! Look, he organized millions of condoms into a floating reef!"

-ml

now don't YOU start.

How boring it would be if they were all defective and the manufacturer paid some Taiwanese freighter to dump the whole lot instead of recycling them?

unless they're all used (insert semen/seaman joke)

gurk.. well... and here we were all worried about those little plastic rings on 6 packs getting all tangled up with fish and birds, atleast this way the little nippers will be able to 'protect' themselves from other fish who might be a shade friskier.

Rubber from Sewage

On reading the Snope's opinion on this I was amused by this

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keeping spent condoms from making their way through waste disposal systems and into bodies of water is an issue that comes up from time to time.

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When I was at college the most colourful lecturer once stated that one description of engineering was the ability to separate rubber from sewage. We dismissed this as playful BS. I turns out he was right after all. :smack:<o:p></o:p>

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