Ever since the great Japan tsunami on March 11 washed millions of tons of debris into the Pacific, scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, have been trying to track the trajectory of this debris that can threaten small ships and coastlines. For nearly half a year, Senior Researcher Nikolai Maximenko and 6FLHQWLILF Computer Programmer Jan Hafner had only their state-of-the-art – but still untested – computer model of currents to speculate where the
Ever since the great Japan tsunami on March 11 washed millions of tons of debris into the Pacific, scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, have been trying to track the trajectory of this debris that can threaten small ships and coastlines. For nearly half a year, Senior Researcher Nikolai Maximenko and 6FLHQWLILF Computer Programmer Jan Hafner had only their state-of-the-art – but still untested – computer model of currents to speculate where the