Plastic island the size of Texas
The world's largest floating trash pile might not be a place people would think to go for their holidays. But I wonder what the result would be of releasing something into the area which gummed all the crud together in a huge floating plate. Ocean currents would keep it pretty much in place (if slowly rotating). There's probably enough burnable crap there to fuel island-building machinery for a very, very long time. And more is arriving every day.
Heck with it - send in something to start gluing the island together, and once it's reached a couple of square miles in size, set up shop and declare it an international vessel.
Or, if you want to be sneaky, live under the new island, and see how long it takes for anyone to figure out where the heck you are.
If you wanted to be really obnoxious, you could then start sailing the thing around, threatening to crash it into shorelines and perpetuate a really horrible ecodisaster.
There's probably more interesting things to do with several million square km of plastic and other crap, though. How about rigging up a plastic ship carrying a zillion tons of plastic and a solar warmer? Go trawl the polar regions and find an iceberg, shape it to be roughly hydrodynamic, coat it in thick insulating plastic, and offer to deliver a trillion tons of fresh water to any coast in the world.
Alternatively, laminate Texas or something.
Heck with it - send in something to start gluing the island together, and once it's reached a couple of square miles in size, set up shop and declare it an international vessel.
Or, if you want to be sneaky, live under the new island, and see how long it takes for anyone to figure out where the heck you are.
If you wanted to be really obnoxious, you could then start sailing the thing around, threatening to crash it into shorelines and perpetuate a really horrible ecodisaster.
There's probably more interesting things to do with several million square km of plastic and other crap, though. How about rigging up a plastic ship carrying a zillion tons of plastic and a solar warmer? Go trawl the polar regions and find an iceberg, shape it to be roughly hydrodynamic, coat it in thick insulating plastic, and offer to deliver a trillion tons of fresh water to any coast in the world.
Alternatively, laminate Texas or something.