6/6/2006: Empty Gatorade bottles across the Charles

Undertoad · 06-06-2006, 02:13 PM

Thanks xoB. Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard. That's why you've gotta hand it to this enterprising pair of gents, who noticed that if they saved all their empty Gatorades for a year...

And tied them all together with duct tape...

It would form a seaworthy raft and they could paddle across the Charles River.

And so they did. As accomplishments go, it doesn't rank up there with curing a disease or writing a great novel. And it's been done many times before with different raw materials. "Oh sure," you think, "I thought of that years ago, I could have done that, easily." But you didn't, huh?

Their full page has 68 photos, out of which these are only four, so it documents the whole event much better than I do.

Pie · 06-06-2006, 02:23 PM

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Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard.

Recycling is hard? The why was this article in the WSJ today?

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Missing milk crates used to wind up in college dormitories as bins for clothes, books and CDs. Today pilfered crates -- as well as pallets, bakery trays and other containers made from a pricey high-density plastic resin -- are going into grinders in recycling plants, say dairy and soft-drink industry loss-prevention officials and police. As oil prices have climbed, so too have prices for the petroleum-based resin used in milk crates, pallets and other such items. Prices of the resin jumped more than 40% after Hurricane Katrina, rising to 87.50 cents per pound in November, according to Plastics News. Today prices are hovering in the 70 cents-per-pound range, nearly double the price just three years ago.

Not that the raft isn't cool n'all.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-06-2006, 02:33 PM

After drinking 90 gallons of Gatorade, I wonder how much of that water they made?

mitheral · 06-06-2006, 02:53 PM

boy you wouldn't want the duct tape to let go mid row.

barefoot serpent · 06-06-2006, 04:15 PM

Too bad Alcatraz is no longer used as a prison.

Kagen4o4 · 06-06-2006, 04:33 PM

i could do that i just dont wanna

footfootfoot · 06-06-2006, 09:08 PM

Umm, what's up w/ all the asian babes?

richlevy · 06-06-2006, 09:21 PM

Morons. If they'd duct taped together 1 years worth of Cheetos bags they would have been able to make a sail and not have had to row.

footfootfoot · 06-06-2006, 09:54 PM

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Morons. If they'd duct taped together 1 years worth of Cheetos bags they would have been able to make a sail and not have had to row.

And if they saved all their farts in that helium ballon from the other thread they could have, well they probably would have blown themselves up.

LabRat · 06-07-2006, 09:21 AM

What good are blow pop sticks?

Happy Monkey · 06-07-2006, 11:40 AM

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Umm, what's up w/ all the asian babes?

It's MIT.

Spexxvet · 06-07-2006, 12:09 PM

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Umm, what's up w/ all the asian babes?

The idea came to them at a bukake party?

hampor · 06-07-2006, 01:58 PM

My favorite part is where they are going for a test run of the MIT Chapel's reflecting pool.

capnhowdy · 06-07-2006, 04:50 PM

with the money they spent on gatorade, they could have bought a damn boat.

wolf · 06-08-2006, 01:33 AM

Yes, but you pretty much have to buy those all at once, rather than a buck here, and a buck there ...

06-06-2006, 02:13 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/6/2006: Empty Gatorade bottles across the Charles Thanks xoB. Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard. That's why you've gotta hand it to this enterprising pair of gents, who noticed that if they saved all their empty Gatorades for a year... And tied them all together with duct tape... It would form a seaworthy raft and they could paddle across the Charles River. And so they did. As accomplishments go, it doesn't rank up there with curing a disease or writing a great novel. And it's been done many times before with different raw materials. "Oh sure," you think, "I thought of that years ago, I could have done that, easily." But you didn't, huh? Their full page has 68 photos, out of which these are only four, so it documents the whole event much better than I do.

06-06-2006, 02:33 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	After drinking 90 gallons of Gatorade, I wonder how much of that water they made? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-06-2006, 04:15 PM	#5
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Too bad Alcatraz is no longer used as a prison. __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

06-06-2006, 04:33 PM	#6
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	i could do that i just dont wanna __________________ something we both can enjoy??

06-06-2006, 09:08 PM	#7
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Umm, what's up w/ all the asian babes? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

06-06-2006, 02:53 PM	#4
mitheral Abecedarian Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 170	boy you wouldn't want the duct tape to let go mid row.

06-06-2006, 09:21 PM	#8
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Morons. If they'd duct taped together 1 years worth of Cheetos bags they would have been able to make a sail and not have had to row. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

06-07-2006, 09:21 AM	#10
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	What good are blow pop sticks? __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

06-07-2006, 01:58 PM	#13
hampor Colloquialist Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: SiliValley Posts: 75	My favorite part is where they are going for a test run of the MIT Chapel's reflecting pool.

06-07-2006, 04:50 PM	#14
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	with the money they spent on gatorade, they could have bought a damn boat. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

06-08-2006, 01:33 AM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Yes, but you pretty much have to buy those all at once, rather than a buck here, and a buck there ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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