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Heavily Littered Yellowstone Geyser Spews Tons of Trash Into Air During Eruption
Ear Spring geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, had long been engorged by years of trash left inside of it by ill-mannered tourists. So naturally when the geyser erupted in September, unleashing its usual blast of searing-hot water and air, a nasty wave of dreck followed.
[...] The garbage had clearly been building within the geyser for a while, as evidenced by the breadth of the objects retrieved. A pyrex funnel, a rather large cement block, three cigarette butts, a no.2 pencil, a plastic spoon, a Solo jazz cup, a baby pacifier and various other things were found after Ear Spring's 30-foot belch on September 15.
The garbage blast was also historic: Some of the objects are believed to date back to the 1930s and are primed to be "inventoried by curators and may end up in Yellowstone's archives," per the NPS.
Also at Motherboard.
(Score: 5, Funny) by snufu on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:29AM (3 children)
Garbage in, garbage out.
(Score: 4, Informative) by driverless on Sunday October 07 2018, @09:55AM (2 children)
So it's like Trump's twitter stream?
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Sunday October 07 2018, @10:02AM (1 child)
Not quite. Yellowstone doesn't produce new trash.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by driverless on Monday October 08 2018, @02:16AM
Isn't the Twitter stream mostly Alex Jones and Fox and Friends regurgitated though?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:45AM (3 children)
People, this isn't hard. You're don't want something, you're done with it, you flush it. Not the babies -- we'll be getting very tough on that one. And a lot of you know this, I'm talking to the ones that don't. Keep America Beautiful!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:53AM (1 child)
It's a growing problem internationally.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:56AM
No, none of them came out..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday October 08 2018, @06:37AM
Don't worry too much about DT. When Yellowstone really blows, it will wipe out most of the Red States.
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6108169/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption [vox.com]
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday October 07 2018, @08:02AM
I laughed out loud at this. Probably a good metaphor for human pollution and all, but the image of Yellowstone spewing garbage several feet into the air made me chuckle heartily.
Reminds me of that meme, "I hope whatever bad thing happens is at least funny".
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Informative) by pinchy on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:45PM
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday October 07 2018, @07:31PM
Jimmy Hoffa?
Carrot Top's career?
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