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  • WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago
    For us non-Californians:

        Gulf of the Farallones is home to major shipping lines to the 
        Port of San Francisco, Port of Oakland, and Port of Richmond
    • hadlock 2 hours ago
      The Farallones are a group of islands about ~27 miles, pretty much due west of the Golden Gate Bridge. They're not huge but you can see them with the naked eye from the top of Mt Diablo about 50 miles away. There's a scientific research station on the largest one but due to their rocky coast (and environmental law) they're difficult or impossible to visit by boat.
      • AlotOfReading 2 hours ago
        You can see them with the naked eye from most of the bay area coast, weather/smog permitting. My favorite is Point Reyes.
      • qwhelan 1 hour ago
        Also, part of the City and County of San Francisco!
    • dboreham 1 hour ago
      Soon to be renamed The Gulf of Newsom.
  • dang 1 hour ago
    This is a fine submission, but if you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

    (Submitted title was "50,000 drums of radioactive wastes were dumped near the Farallones, 1946 to 1970")

  • riffic 2 hours ago
    that's cool we also have a few thousand drums of DDT off LA's shores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_ocean_dumps_off_Southern...

    This all comes from an era where the prevailing thought was the solution for pollution is dilution.

    • mgarfias 1 hour ago
      Hey my dad used to wipe the stuff of tomatoes before eating them right off the vine.

      I’m mostly ok, have the normal number of arms and legs. Only had one tumor, and just a few endocrine issues. Nothing major, it’s all good.

  • LePetitPrince 1 hour ago
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