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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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5. Did you ever read Kon Tiki?

Reply to OnlinePoker (Reply #3)

Fri May 12, 2017, 07:43 AM

May 2017

Movie is great also.

A central, counter-intuitive point was that the behavior on high seas of a structure like a large raft deals with the forces present in a very different manner than a boat hull.

It looks pretty elegant to me.
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Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trash [View all] Judi Lynn May 2017 OP

Good thing there are other countries that care about the environment. democratisphere May 2017 #1

This may be the only country in the world that has people actively (knowingly) making it worse. Afromania May 2017 #2

Sadly we are making it a lot worse. democratisphere May 2017 #4

I like the effort but will be surprised if it works OnlinePoker May 2017 #3

Did you ever read Kon Tiki? kristopher May 2017 #5

Curious as to the scale of the netting - would it also take up plankton, fish larvae, krill, etc? hatrack May 2017 #6