Same principle applied to the Newcastle outbreak on chicken farms (mostly small producers) a few years ago. Inspectors dashed madly from farm to farm checking for infected chickens, spreading the virus as they went. Smart farmers locked the gate (the inspection was voluntary) and saved their chickens. (Smarter ones vaccinated, but I don't know how good the vaccine is. Tho it's useful for treating distemper in dogs.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Since it's already happened in one form, it's not only not far-fetched, it's more likely than not, and we can't say what its effects would be (perhaps benign, perhaps even more lethal). So, yeah, by all means keep the damn thing contained as best we can.

This game video done by a friend is interesting from a modern-vectors standpoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I find it more likely that some microorganism will find a way to extract energy from the particles, if it's not already doing so. Which may produce the GP's possible state of equilibrium.

Nor do they tell us the ratio to non-plastic junk floating in that same water, especially naturally occuring junk. Not every particle floating in the oceans is of human origin; I'd hazard most are the result of atmospheric dust.

Being enthusiastically biocidal is better than unwittingly transporting mussels and other vermin from one coastline to another.

More often they were tarred or varnished. And historical paints were made from equally 'natural' materials, eg. linseed oil and white lead. Which generally are more ablative than modern paints.

My next question is... if the ultimate upshot is a ban on ocean shipping, cui bono?

Yep, polarized sunglasses pretty much block the black light. Regular sunglasses dim it down some but no more than they do sunlight, and I still see a bright core.

Where I used to live I had a choice of one, fixed wireless from a one-man band. And he liked to talk about his work. One thing he told me was that due to peering agreements, downloads cost nothing, and uploads are 5 cents per GB. (This was 7-8 years ago. Probably hasn't changed too much.) He came right off the AT&T backbone.

Field mice are brown and white. House mice are sorta muddy-grey to muddy-brown.

Didn't you heed the warnings about Green Magic??

Black lights have ALWAYS looked like the bottom picture to me -- and are blindingly bright. To my eyes, the little bug zapper lights up the room.

This is no doubt why I'm in love with polarized sunglasses.

When did you have the surgery? Sounds like it went really well. Hadn't heard about it, but as you know I've moved to a planet far far away.

Sorry I couldn't be there in person to witness your transformation into a bionic man! :D

Ahhhh, so I'm not alone! I hate the damn things! Grew up with glass lenses, and there is NO comparison. I never stop seeing the damned poly lenses as if there's poorly-cleaned glass in front of my eyes.

Actually it's pretty easy to demonstrate, just go out in bright sunlight, close one eye for a while, then note the difference. One eye will seem blue-shifted.

Also, myopia affects color vision. There's some famous painter (whose name I ironically forget) who was severely myopic, as in walk-into-the-walls myopic. This was once put forth for an explanation as to why his portraits were "too red" (this was before impressionism spoiled everything).

Anyway, if your distance vision is not the same in both eyes, yes, they can see color slightly different. I'm R-20/40 and L-20/80, and my left eye sees the world slightly more pink than my right. (Not usually noticeable, except when staring at this broad swath of grey on my monitor. Then I can really see it. But I have extremely discerning color vision. I can distinguish fine shades most people can't. So do most people in my mom's family.)

"When three men sit down to discuss conspiracy, two are government agents and the third is a fool."
-- Soviet proverb