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Someone residing across the Ganges River in India lately got a present which we may safely say no one on Earth had ever gotten before. In the beginning, it must have seemed just like a typical plastic jar floating down the lake, spare for the pole poking from the best, like a sailboat using a mast but no recoil. Even the giftee, who remains anonymous, and has to have gotten interested and torn open the 500-milliliter jar, discovering that it was actually packed with electronic equipment. Those contained a SIM cardwhich the individual popped right into a mobile device then logged in to Facebook.
“The reason why we understood that it had been in use was once we got the invoice,” says Alasdair Daviesa technical expert in the Zoological Society of London. You notice, Davies, together with conservation scientist Emily Duncan at the University of Exeter as well as other investigators, had long before introduced the jar and nine others in the Ganges as a part of a clever experiment to reveal how plastic contamination goes through rivers and out to sea. SIM cards enabled the unfortunate bottle and its partners to join to mobile towers every 3 hours since they journeyed down the lake, documenting {} detail just how much and how quickly the apparatus traveled. One spanned 380 miles over 51 days.
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