Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/21/conch-island-formed-by-fis.html
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That’s a lot of Conch!
Here’s some Hairy Bikers discovering an island made of oysters that started with the Romans:
One man’s trash is another’s island…
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I can smell them just looking at the picture. Still better than a garbage patch though.
That’s one of the more French things I’ve ever seen, and I’ve visited France on multiple occasions. (Now I’m craving oysters.)
ETA: Here’s another one:
https://www.dbnsa.gov.tw/Scenery-Content.aspx?lang=2&sno=04006704
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Here is the actual, precise location — (18.6875119, -64.2770530)
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Sounds similar to Turtle Mound near Canaveral National Seashore
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Haven’t humans been building shell middens for millennia?
EDIT: Oh good - autoplay.
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This island would pose quite a conundrum for the boys in Lord of the Flies.
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Maybe they could sell the shells?
He sells seashells and the sea shore.
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I feel like that would still be useful for something… soil amendment or making a building material or something.
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Yes absolutely. Crushed shells make excellent substrate for an aquarium. It buffers the water so fish pee doesn’t turn it acidic.
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Oysters though.
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I am so very depressed whenever I read about this.
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Look at it as temporary hydrocarbon storage. We’re going to need that, someday, and the Pacific Ocean has been kind enough to concentrate it in a relatively small area./s
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It’s not as metal as the classic skull pyramid; but it does say something when the detritus of your sustained slaughter makes it over the (admittedly lower) bound of ‘geological proportions’.
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I don’t know if I should tell you, but this is not even in the top ten of environmental catastrophes to worry about. Hell, that and landfills are basically our best effort at carbon sequestration.
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I’m pretty aware already, alas. It’s just when I think of our big blue marble, “floating garbage patch” should never enter into it.
But here we are.
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