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Re:Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100... by andrew1 on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @04:28AM (#3210061)
I find the environmental criticisms here bizarre; do the communication mechanisms the rest of us use suddenly have no environmental costs?
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Re:Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100... by VMG on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:02AM (#3210151)
I find your response even more bizarre - just try to imagine replacing email with this method for just half a minute.

The real reason this isn't a concern is because of the absolute cost of his experiment, not because of the relative expense of his communication method in comparison to others.

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