what is the largest man-made object in the world?
I just lost some respect for Fry based on his abuse of the term man-made object. It’s clearly not a single object and the vortex, a natural phenomena, did the collecting. I thought Fry cared about precision. Interestingly, on Blue Planet last night they were showing how garbage in the ocean, even fish nets, can create an oasis for sea life by providing shade and functioning as psuedo islands/reefs. Chuckdarwin, that albatross picture featured in this treehugger story seems to be a bit misleading. Some of the contents, larger pieces in particular, are plastic but a great deal of it appear to be stones which many birds eat to aid in their digestion. That would probably account for the bulk of the weight – plastic is light after all. The photo with the bits in the bird is also obviously faked given the lack of viscera and pristine feathers which would be unlikely post necropsy and the location of the solids throughout the birds entire body rather than in the birds gut. Also seabirds vomit
