Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans 141
sciencehabit (1205606) writes Even when the sea looks clean, its surface can be flecked with tiny fragments of paint and fiberglass. That's the finding from a study that looked for plastic pollution in the uppermost millimeter of ocean. The microscopic fragments come from the decks and hulls of boats, and they could pose a threat to zooplankton, an important part of the marine food web.
Sherwin-Williams Conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
This makes Sherwin-Williams and their "Cover the Earth" logo look a lot less like a paint seller/manufacturer and a lot more like some kind of Bond villain.
Some sort of protective coating... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Some sort of protective coating... (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps oil?
Re:Least green logo ever (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I noticed Halliburton doesn't have a corporate logo, so I started drawing them one that might be less green. The logo is Dick Cheney in a Hummer H-2 running over small woodland creatures while dumping unused barrels of Agent Orange out of the Hummer's trunk and lighting the rainforest on fire with a flamethrower.
Now if only I had any actual artistic talent and this didn't look like a giant blob of orange highlighter.
Re: slowly (Score:4, Funny)
Compared to say, American or European boats that are predominantly aluminum
So then we're creating a problem of Alzheimer's in the plankton.
Perhaps that explains his devotion to the Chum Bucket and his continued attempts to get the crabby patty recipe?