The sheer size of this problem. Will it go away by itself?



BBC News - Vast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19207810)

Er no

Italian drivers worry me

Pumice will float for ever as it is so full of bubbles. Similar type of stuff is produced by power stations.

I would say that the raft will gradually break up but most of it will stay together and get blown around the ocean wherever the wind takes it.

Give MOD a call as if they pull it all together, hang a line on it then you got a floating aircraft carrier....

Hardly a week goes by without news of some outbreak of bugs like Norovirus on these boats.

Giant floating Petri dishes :yuk:

You actually thought it would be nice to take a cruise? On a ship?
Interesting.

Talking of aircraft carriers I saw a prog the other day on u tube and part of it said that during WW2 it was proposed to build some
using a mixture of ice and wood chippings or pulp. To be used mainly in cold parts of the world but it would have been so strong
it would have lasted years. Virtually indestructible and would melt very very slowly.

Pykrete, invented by Geoffrey Pyke, who proposed building the Habakkuk with it. His cousin was Magnus Pyke.

The whole of New Zealand is going to erupt this century anyway. Its sitting on a geological time bomb.

You actually thought it would be nice to take a cruise? On a ship?
Interesting.


Glad someone else think that way Probes. To me these ships seem like a rather expensive version of Butlins, with the additional hazards of seasickness and food-poisoning thrown in. Two weeks in the garden, weather permitting, or indoors reading if it doesn't, seems a far better option (and a few grand cheaper).

My idea of hell - a cruise.

My idea of hell - a cruise.

Dunno may people enjoying cruising in Brighton and othe fleshpots every weekend.

The old bat is always going on about a cruise. Me, I used to do Union Casle regularly in my childhood and had no desire to repeat it. I took her from Plymouth to Santander on the ferry hoping that a good old dose of the Bay of Biscay would cure the problem. Flat as a pancake all the way. Tried a trip up to the Shetlands; nothing can beat the North Sea. Like a millpond going north and flat calm coming back.

Took her on a cruise up the Three Gouges in China before they became the Three Wide Valleys. We got shipwrecked when they managed to run it aground. After a night of no air-conditioning, no running water, no cold drinks she has now gone off the idea completely.