Condom Island ???

Condom Island--?
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This is rather unbelievable, but true! (source: www.unknowncountry.com)


A huge floating reef made up of millions of disposed condoms has been discovered in the mid Pacific. The condom mass is two miles long, up to sixty feet deep, and in places so tightly compressed that a small plane could be landed on it.

The mass was discovered by the Australian Oceanographic Laboratory Outpost on Macquarie Island in the South Pacific. Scientists there explained that the accumulation, which consists almost exclusively of condoms, is explained by a principle of physics called "like aggregation." Like aggregation is caused by the massing of similar objects due to ocean currents and winds, the response of the objects to the earth's magnetic field, and other factors.

The tendency of dust to clump and mass in a house or under a bed is explained by the same principle.

The Australian scientists are mapping the reef by satellite because it is a serious marine hazard. The world disposes of an estimated 300 million condoms a year.

Art credit: http://www.freeimages.co.uk

ewww....

I wonder if this could be an opportunity for recycling? Welcome to DU, by the way!

:hi:

I dread to think what the water around this "island" might contain. You could probably get impregnated by swimming near it, actually. Interesting concept.

blame Clinton . . .?

Just the left-foot ones -- they have to go somewhere.

This 'Like Aggregation' could explain a lot of things...

Thank you South Park :-)

"Vast Condom Horror in Pacific"
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4636

Google cache

then in 1998

I don't know what's more indestructible - condoms, or this dodgy urban legend about them. Come on people, do you really think condoms could magically collect together in the ocean in a solid lump? How many do you think it would take to build up something that big? Hint: a hell of a lot more than 300 million a year - even if we put them all in one place ourselves.

it's quite funny whether true or not. :rofl:

If so...

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no way. this wouldn't happen unless people made it this way

They'll stay firm and fit with water-based ones...

Can't figure out why an airplane would want to land on this now mythical island...

Maybe it's the take off?