That’s what my prom date said!
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Not always. Some buoys (and fenders and floats and whatnot) these days are foam-filled plastics with composite skins. Unsinkable, unlike hollow steel.
See, f’rex, the Products page at Marine Fenders Intl. of Wimington, CA.
Heavy steel central cylinder surrounded by urethane flotation foam inside multiple layers of closed-cell resilient foam, capped with a fiber-reinforced abrasion-resistant skin?
Yep, it’s a buoy or float or bumper of some sort.
It’s definitely NOT anything rocket-related. The steel inner structure is too heavy, the flotation foam makes no sense, and the complete absence of any sort of wiring, plumbing, or electronics argues against it.
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Keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool!
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Probably the remnants of a 3-meter discus buoy.
http://www.fishing-nc.com/offshore-nc-buoys.php
BORING!!! I like the drainplug answer better.
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fat burger waiting for a packing lot
(auto smelling edit: or parking lot)
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Am I alone in thinking that only in the USA would there be a huge, gaudy marker for the most southerly point of the continent? The most southerly point of the U.K., (ok, not a continent), has a lighthouse, which one could argue is even bigger, but it’s there purely to stop shipwrecks. I doubt any other places have something like that.
But hey, what ever makes people happy.
While we are talking geography, the southern-most point of contiguous Canada is more south than the northern-most part of California.
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That would explain a lot.
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Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
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Well if our assumptions over the last 200 years have been any indication, if found 200 years from now, that would be the assumption.
Never understood the reason why everyone is so quick to attribute so much prehistoric architecture and art to religion when people 25,000 years ago weren’t actually all that different than people now, and I suspect that we’ve miscategorized a lot of things as having religious significance when it could have just as easily been that they just liked those things, or they thought they looked nice–same reason why we do a lot of the stuff we do today.
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I told you kids not to take it off the chain. Damnit.
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It’s a blue whale cock ring.
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They are just looking for an Extra-Extra-EXTRA-Large cup of Dunkin coffee.
OH NO! Dunkin should never have let the Donuts go free!
Goldfish grown to the size of footballs have been terrorising native fish species in Australia, after being dumped in the river by their owners.
The monster fish, which grow extremely quickly after being released from their tanks, have reportedly been running riot in the the Vasse River in Western Australia for the past 20 years.
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My dad keeps gold fish in a little “pond” in the back yard. I think his biggest one is like 8" or so. But yes, they grow to the size of their environment.
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Australia is horrifying.
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"Had we but space enough and time,
This koiness, lady, were no crime."
— Andrew Marvell, To His Koi Mistress
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Good “catch”.
A little off from posted design dimensional proportions but appears to be similar enough (unless MIB disinformation…ha ha).
Pos ID is challenging due to limited photographic/ descriptive data. Damage has distorted part of design but has also revealed some of the composition layers.
Yes, likely a type of “bumper sleeve” from a pier, off shore drilling platform, Nazi UFO base in Antarctica …
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