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I will not be turning anon asks back on. If you would like more information, there will be more info under the cut. Liam, Tavis, whatever you go by now, leave. Me. Alone. Stop stalking my social medias. If any of you are curious as to what I’m referring to, please refer to this post from a few years ago, which is still relevant today as they are still actively being banned from minor-safe spaces, as proven here.
““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch
entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade
inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to
tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success,
leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could
be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating
islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter
from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and
27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there,
launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device,
but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed
“Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in
its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1
millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to
wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and
camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine
life…
Slat estimates
ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10
Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all
floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”
If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.
Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.
I am so, so proud of him holy shit.
^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.
And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!
Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3
The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.
The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.
On the subject of Zenos’ cutscenes and the Garlean language
Given his status I do believe Zenos has been taught how to speak and read languages other than Garlean.
With that in mind: Does he speak common / “Eorzean” to the WoL in the cutscenes, or is he speaking in Garlean and the Echo translates it for us?
Would he even know that we posses such ability thanks to the Echo, or would he speak in Eorzean to ensure we understand him? What about cutscenes where he addresses NPCs with a different origin (and, presumably, a different first language) than the WoL? E.g. Fordola and Yotsuyu?
Also, as a side thought: does the Resonant grant him a similar ability to understand other languages?
