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[pax]

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/thursday.handleigh/unusual/other/condom-reef.htm

 

[silence]

no comment.

 

[PC-Engine]

That's just crazy not to mention bizzare.

 

[pax]

I like the answer as to why this happened tho... Kinda amazing...

 

[_xxx_]

And not by any chance a hoax?

 

[Basic]

It says that one third of the yearly 300 million discarded condoms become waterborn, and that it may have been accumulated over decades. Even if every single waterborn condom for the last 30 years went into that "reef", it still wouldn't be anywhere near as large as they say.

Hoax.

 

[Guden Oden]

What a crock.

This is obviously all lies.

 

[London Geezer]

It's not my fault!! I SWEAR!!!

 

[pax]

If its a lie its a good one... Its cool the idea of trash somehow coalescing because of currents and some such... Like those rocks that form circles and hexagons (when abutting to other stone circles) because of geologic processes over long time periods in the north...

 

[incurable]

Even if every single waterborn condom for the last 30 years went into that "reef", it still wouldn't be anywhere near as large as they say.

Wouldn't the size depend on the, errrr, contents of the individual containers?

 

[London Geezer]

It says that one third of the yearly 300 million discarded condoms become waterborn, and that it may have been accumulated over decades. Even if every single waterborn condom for the last 30 years went into that "reef", it still wouldn't be anywhere near as large as they say.

Hoax.

U sure?

Not saying this is true (cause it's pretty much impossible that every condom would just magically reunite in one place), but for the sake of boredom, let's do some math.

It's probably gonna be all wrong, but what the hell...

300 million a year for 30 years is 9 billion condoms.

Say, a fully "extended" but not stretched condom is what, 20cm length by 5cm diameter (not sure, just using an easy number, but it's close i guess), that equals to a 314cm volume each.

Multiply that for 9 billion and that's a 2826 billion cm volume. Quite big to me.

That should make a thing that's 500m thick and 3598m long.... Errr... A third of that is still quite big...

Obviously the above is all in theoretical, if every condome is magically arranged in perfect rows and all that...

 

[_xxx_]

...

That should make a thing that's 500m thick and 3598m long.... Errr... A third of that is still quite big...

Obviously the above is all in theoretical, if every condome is magically arranged in perfect rows and all that...

And now I expected you'll say that that huge thing is just one of your condoms...disappointing

 

[Basic]

If you measure the "inflated" size 20cm and 5cm diameter, then you'd get the length and width they state if it's 180 cm deep. While the reef was "up to 60 feet deep".

But it won't have the inflated size when discarded in the water, but rather the completely colapsed size. Specially if they are matted together so densely that "you could almost land a plane on it".

 

[London Geezer]

Specially if they are matted together so densely that "you could almost land a plane on it".

Well... that could be the stickiness... EWWWW

 

[jvd]

If you measure the "inflated" size 20cm and 5cm diameter, then you'd get the length and width they state if it's 180 cm deep. While the reef was "up to 60 feet deep".

But it won't have the inflated size when discarded in the water, but rather the completely colapsed size. Specially if they are matted together so densely that "you could almost land a plane on it".

who knows whats at the middle of this thing though . It could have trapped alot of things