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I have great admiration for Boyan's Ocean Cleanup project.

I think more people should be aware of it.

It's about cleaning up the plastic soup in our oceans' garbage patches.

I volunteered my help to the project, but they don't have a need for software engineers.

I have posted this before, but please do not think this will ever work. The thing will fall apart (again) as soon as it is exposed to anything but a calm sea. It definitely brought attention to the issue, but that's about all the good it did.

I don't blame anyone for having the idea of making something like this, but I do Boyan and his team for seeing it through to implementation when all preliminary and scale model tests showed clearly that they would fail. Talk about a waste of money and bright minds...

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