6/6/2006: Empty Gatorade bottles across the Charles
 

http://cellar.org/2006/gatorraft1.jpg

Thanks xoB. Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard. That's why you've gotta hand it to this enterprising pair of gents, who noticed that if they saved all their empty Gatorades for a year...

http://cellar.org/2006/gatorraft2.jpg

And tied them all together with duct tape...

http://cellar.org/2006/gatorraft3.jpg

It would form a seaworthy raft and they could paddle across the Charles River.

http://cellar.org/2006/gatorraft4.jpg

And so they did. As accomplishments go, it doesn't rank up there with curing a disease or writing a great novel. And it's been done many times before with different raw materials. "Oh sure," you think, "I thought of that years ago, I could have done that, easily." But you didn't, huh?

Their full page has 68 photos, out of which these are only four, so it documents the whole event much better than I do.

Recycling is hard? The why was this article in the WSJ today?
Not that the raft isn't cool n'all. :right:

After drinking 90 gallons of Gatorade, I wonder how much of that water they made? :rolleyes:

boy you wouldn't want the duct tape to let go mid row.

Too bad Alcatraz is no longer used as a prison.

i could do that i just dont wanna

Umm, what's up w/ all the asian babes?

Morons. If they'd duct taped together 1 years worth of Cheetos bags they would have been able to make a sail and not have had to row.

And if they saved all their farts in that helium ballon from the other thread they could have, well they probably would have blown themselves up.

What good are blow pop sticks? :yum:

It's MIT.

The idea came to them at a bukake party?

My favorite part is where they are going for a test run of the MIT Chapel's reflecting pool.

with the money they spent on gatorade, they could have bought a damn boat.

Yes, but you pretty much have to buy those all at once, rather than a buck here, and a buck there ...