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TREC Virtual Base Camp _ Ask the Teacher (Misty) or the Scientist (Ben) _ japanse glass floats part II

Posted by: kA!m! Aug 30 2006, 08:38 PM

hi again. sorry i forgot to ask,

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how were the japanese glass floats important?

thanks again. see you soon!

Posted by: Misty_Nikula_Ohlsen Sep 2 2006, 03:35 AM

Kaimi
I don't know if they were so much "important" as just a part of the economy 50-100 years ago. Now they are just very cool collectibles that can be found on beaches. I guess that they are piles and piles of them in Hokkaido, Japan. Just laying around in garbage piles.
Mrs. N-O