So. Yesterday I was listening to NPR, as happens, when I heard a piece they are calling Iran's Pollution Worries Come by Air and Water about the contamination in the Caspian Sea. So, they start with the sound of dredging of one of the ports in northern Iran. They use a sort of enormous vacuum, it seems, to suck up the fine sediment, to keep the harbor deep enough for boats to come in and out. And, of course, because people nearby fling their rubbish into the water, they spend a lot of their time unclogging the vacuum hose, as they’ve picked up old boots and plastic bags and so on. So there they are, on this huge ship, spending the whole day, day after day, digging crud out of the vacuum hose. And by the end of the day, they’ve got a whole boatload of rubbish, right? And what do they do with it all? They take it ...
Yes...
No, they actually do. They take the ship out into the deep water, and they take all the garbage...
I’m serious, here.
They...
Oh, never mind. You’ve had days like that, too.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
nothing can be done! or so my opponent would have you think. yes, see, if i were trash collector, i would separate the collected items into piles of floats and sinks, and instead of dumping them all in the water, i would place the things that sink atop the things that float, and gently release them in the ship’s wake.
then you could see the grand ship’s wake from space.