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Rush-hour traffic outside Boston got messier than usual on March 9, when a UPS truck hauling 16,000 pounds of industrial printer ink flipped and shut down an interstate access ramp. When the red, yellow and blue ink hit the pavement, it spread like Technicolor through Oz.
Cleanup crews working with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection arrived on the scene within hours to contain the spill and prevent the ink, which is nontoxic, from reaching the water table. First they tried to soak it up with sand. When that didn’t work, they simply repaved the spill site. The ordeal shut down a 500-foot stretch of Route 128 for most of the day—but at least commuters got a smoother road out of it.
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This website is PoPSci, right. I mean, yea, this is kind of news, but I really do not see the scientific significance. I guess the edit room had nothing else to post. Hey PoPsci, did you know they recently launch a 2billion magnet in space.
A 2 billion DOLLAR magnet in space, that is.
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There is an article about that douche. How bout you look through the site before attempting to bash it. Good job though you win nothing. Have fun failing some more.
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This article was on Gizmodo months ago... It seems like popsci is always behind
Why is the internet full of negative comments? Make one grammatical error and the grammar hounds are all over you. Have an opinion about something and everyone that believes differently calls you every name in the book.
If you see an article you aren't interested in then dude, don't read it. That's like going to a Miley Cyrus concert and complaining that the music sucks.
Why did 500 feet of roadway have to be replaced - The ink, which is nontoxic(esciencenews.com/sources/popsci/2011/05/19/ink.spill.from.ups.truck.paints.a.highway.rainbow)
had reached two storm drains, but it is not considered a hazardous material(www.boston.com/yourtown/news/peabody/2011/03/inky_crash_may_shut_down_ramp_1.html)
It seems to me that this was an example of government excess, how many workers spent countless hours and thousands of dollars cleaning something that would have washed away. If as the reports suggest it was not hazardous / nontoxic.