Teens Destroy 320,000,000 Years Of History In A Few Seconds, And It Will Make You Boil With Anger
The Brimham Rocks, located in North Yorkshire, England, are a natural formation of rocks, that have been formed by the elements for about 320 million years. Or should we say ‘were’?
Earlier this month, a group of vandals damaged the ancient formation in mere seconds – “at around 8.45pm on Friday, 1 June a group of five young people were seen pushing a rock at the top of one of the crags,” said North Yorkshire Police. The teens pushed the rock down the crag and damaged it, causing irreplaceable damage and creating a potentially dangerous condition. “It is just completely pointless and needless,” said Helen Clarke of the National Trust.
The police are asking for help identifying the potential criminals: “If you have any information about the identity of those responsible please contact officers on 101, choosing option 2 and quote reference 12180097959. Alternatively, email bill.hickson@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk .”
See the damage for yourself in the gallery below and don’t forget to contact the authorities if you know something about this incident!
More info: nationaltrust.org.uk | h/t
The Brimham Rocks, located in North Yorkshire, England, are an ancient natural formation of rocks
The formation has been formed by the elements for about 320 million years
Earlier this month, a group of vandals damaged the ancient formation in mere seconds
On Friday, 1 June a group of five young people were seen pushing a rock at the top of one of the crags
The teens pushed the rock down the crag and damaged it, causing irreplaceable damage and creating a potentially dangerous condition
The incident caused considerable damage to both the rock and the crag face
“It is just completely pointless and needless”
The culprits scratched their names into the rocks near the formation
The police are in search of the vandals
And people are boiling with anger on social media
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20-Year-Old Engineer’s Idea To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched Next Year
Boyan Slat is a 20 year old with an idea on how to clean plastic trash from our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup initiative wants to reduce the amount of trash in the oceans by employing floating barriers that are moored to the seabed. They would collect lighter-than-water plastic trash with the help of the ocean currents and without harming sea life.
The pilot, which will be deployed near Tsushima Island (located between Japan and Korea) in the first quarter of 2016, will test the durability and viability of the project. It will be only 2000 meters long, a far cry from the planned 100 kilometers length, but it will still be the longest floating structure on Earth.
Cleaning up plastic garbage in ocean, like the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is impractical with ships. However, the 100km stationary cleanup array could remove 42% of the Garbage Patch over 10 years, 70,320,000kg in total.
More info: theoceancleanup.com | Facebook | Twitter (h/t: boredpanda )
When it’s deployed in 2016, the 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world.
This concept will test out 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste.
This plan would use ocean currents to skim the plastic trash without harming the sea life.
The eventual Ocean Cleanup Array would be a 100km long and able to collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years
Estimated clean up cost would be roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram – 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods
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