The industrialized world disposes of an estimated 300 million condoms each year. The material most commonly used in their production, latex, is notoriously resilient and stubbornly resists the natural process of deterioration. So what happens to all those rubbers we in the civilized world cast off each year? Apparently, many of them end up as building blocks for a growing “condom continent” in the South Pacific. Scientists have discovered a vast floating reef of used condoms about half way between Tahiti and Antarctica. The mass is almost two miles in length, and an eighth of a mile wide and in some places 60 feet deep. The mass is so solid that scientists at the Australian Oceanographic Laboratory have expressed concern about the danger to ships and even marine mammals should they accidentally ram it.