великие мореплаватели
04:54 | 11-08-2009 | Lifeform, Literature | 2 Comments
реальность всегда превосходит вымысел:
A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
будущая ли это Армада? зародыш Плота из “Лавины”:
Again we are on the Enterprise, but this time the atmosphere is different again. The top deck has been turned into an open-air refugee camp. It is swarming with Bangladeshis that L. Bob Rife plucked out of the Bay of Bengal after their country washed into the ocean in a series of massive floods, caused by deforestation farther upstream in India – hydrological warfare. The camera pans to look out over the edge of the flight deck, and down below, we see the first beginnings of the Raft: a relatively small collection of a few hundred boats that have glommed onto the Enterprise, hoping for a free ride across to America.
или новообразованные материки?
скорее, впрочем, просто отпечатки наших грязных пальцев.
затягивает все глубже: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/1624215/Pacific-Ocean-Garbage-Patch-Worries-Researchers
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