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TreasonousBastard

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Mon Oct 8, 2018, 05:13 PM Oct 2018

A Geyser Erupted in Yellowstone and 80 Years of Human Trash Poured Out

https://www.livescience.com/63768-yellowstone-geyser-garbage-eruption.html


"After Ear Spring erupted on September 15, employees found a strange assortment of items strewn across the landscape around its vent," officials wrote on the Yellowstone National Park Facebook page. "Some are clearly historic: they'll be inventoried by curators and may end up in Yellowstone's archives."

What have people been throwing into the geyser? Some of the historical detritus that Ear Spring coughed up includes a large chunk of cinderblock, a broken bottle, several metal warning signs, some old aluminum cans, plastic cups, cigarette butts, someone's rubber heel insert, a vintage pacifier from the 1930s and an 8-inch-long (20 centimeters) plastic drinking straw. (Editor's note: please do not try to drink a geyser.)
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A Geyser Erupted in Yellowstone and 80 Years of Human Trash Poured Out (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 OP
As the ocean goes, so goes the geyser. democratisphere Oct 2018 #1
Aren't people wonderful? Va Lefty Oct 2018 #2
What no Jimmy Hoffa or Amelia Earhardt! whistler162 Oct 2018 #3
Mother Earth is spitting it back at us. n/t 5X Oct 2018 #4
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