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Old 2012-06-08, 15:46   Link #2545
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by andyjay729 View Post
The biggest piece of debris seen yet, a floating concrete dock, washed up in Oregon.

It's not radioactive (it came from up in Aomori Prefecture), but marine biologists are worried about some of the barnacles and other non-native sea life clinging to it, and how it may affect the West Coast marine environment. For instance, one of the crabs has caused some trouble on the East Coast.
They are currently estimating it has over one hundred tons of alien marine life on it.... so yeah - its a biological bomb in some ways

We'll probably be seeing stuff like this over the next couple of decades and it will quite likely foment significant changes in the Western US ecology. Good or bad, it'll be different.
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