World in 2219: Sunny days & travel flumes
LEGO Saira with the model MACHINES which break up clouds so it is always sunny are among the inventions children think will be around in 200 years.
The under-10s also reckon there could be super-size flumes to get people to work and which would reduce air pollution.
And there would be surveillance snails to monitor criminal activity.
Saira Ali, seven, won the Legoland Discovery Centre competition to draw a city of the future.
Her design included ice cream buildings.
Saira, of Preston, Lancs, said: “The world isn’t very colourful, so in the future I want everything to be more colourful.”
The design has been turned into a Lego model. It is on display at the Legoland Discovery Centre in Trafford, Gtr Manchester. Darrell with waste found in whale Sack found in whale gut HORRIFIED marine scientists found 40kg of plastic bags and other packaging in the gut of a whale which washed up dead in the Philippines.
An autopsy found the Cuvier’s beaked whale died of “gastric shock” after ingesting 16 rice sacks, four banana plantation bags, multiple carriers, and hundreds of small pieces of plastic. Heartbreaking images show piles of rubbish extracted from its insides. Biologists said it was “the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale”.
The whale was spotted floating in the shallows after it washed ashore barely alive in the Compostela Valley on Saturday morning.
It died moments before fisheries officials arrived at the beach.
Dr Elaine Belvis and US marine biologist Darrell Blatchley performed the autopsy. Darrell said: “It’s disgusting. Action must be taken by the government against people who continue to treat the waterways and oceans as dumpsters.”
He said workers at his D’Bone Collector Museum, where the autopsy was carried out, would continue sifting through the whale’s guts to identify the plastic which clogged its stomach.
He added: “Doing this is not just for our gain, but mainly to give education and for people to realise how magnificent these animals are. I was not prepared for the amount of plastic. It was so big, the plastic was beginning calcification.”
China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand account for up to 60% of the plastic in our oceans, a 2015 report revealed.
In June last year, a pilot whale died in Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags. It is feared plastic pollution in oceans could triple by 2029. DARRELL BLATCHLEY MARINE BIOLOGIST
It’s just disgusting. I was not prepared for the amount of plastic