Fatbergs — typically mess made from congealed grime , napkin , wet wipes , and other trash — have a tendency to mould where they’renot want , but a new one float in the sea just off Amsterdam was put there deliberately . AsGizmodoreports , house decorator Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks constructed the buoyant blob to be a affirmation - wee-wee piece of experimental art .
TheirFatberg(capital F ) set about in 2014 as a single drop of fat in a glass of water . In the time since then , Thompson and Hendriks have grown it into a 2205 - Ezra Pound behemoth by gradually add melt - down veg and fauna fatty tissue to the cumulus . Unlike fatbergs that appear in the wild ( a.k.a . metropolis sewers ) , this monstrosity is pure fat . The two brainiac hope to eventually comprise human fat find from a suction lipectomy procedure .
The undertaking is less a argument about the litter and pollution that lead to fatbergs clogging up our sewer as it is about the meaning of the fatness itself . “ essentially we ’re doing this because fat is a very interesting fabric — it ’s probably the most iconic cloth of fourth dimension , ” Hendriks narrate Gizmodo . “ It ’s constituent , but it speaks about energy . It speaks about health . It verbalize about over - phthisis . It address about stunner . ”
The two piece plan to continue grow their juicy island with the destination of get it big enough to stand on and tow it to the North Pole . But they have a retentive agency to go before they break the record for biggest fatberg — that title belong to theWhitechapel fatberg , which weighed a humongous 143 tons when it was deplume from a London sewer in 2017 .
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