Note: this topic is from 25 August 2005. Thanks Our_Man_In_Gough_Island.
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Posted on 08/26/2005 7:00:38 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Penguins = Antarctic critter
Polar Bears = Arctic critter
Touche'
It was 6am when I posted, coffee hadn't kicked in yet ;)
There are all kinds of things the MSM doesn't report. If the story doesn't happen in their regular " beat" and they don't have an office nearby, it doesn't get written up. Remember when the tropical storm hit Houston and did $ 1 billion of flooding? That was not reported in the MSM for weeks, at least not on the front pages. Did you know ***before*** 9/11 that there was this guy Bin Laden with several divisions of Arabs in Afghanistan in training against the USA? Yet there are non-MSM links up before 9/11 that reported that fact. One reason I take the screen name I do is that I hope, from time to time, to be able to bring to better light some of the news items in very remote areas that are nevertheless quite startling.
Yes, this is a legit news story. The Sydney Morning Herald and Science Magazine are reporting it, too. Unfortunately, many of the articles so far are subscription only. Nevertheless, I will post the search output from Google News, and you may have better luck in accessing these: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=nz&ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16387758%25255E3462,00.html
Thank you, everybody, for the feedback.
Where is Gough Island? Is there a Ginger and Mary Ann?......
It's near...well, let me see, it's - actually, it really isn't " near" anything. It is a very isolated island in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Anywhere in relation to Chatham Island or the International Dateline?.........
No, South Atlantic, not South Pacific.
The only answer is to place a ban on all asteroids immediately.
"Penguins and Polar bears hit hardest"
Not to be weird, but the thing hit Antarctica. The word "Arctic" means bear; the area was named after polar bears. Antarctica means "no bears". Trivial little fact courtesty of Dan Brown, 'Deception Point'.
Thanks. Any place with a vanishing island for a neighbor can't be all bad.
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“Penguins and Polar bears hit hardest”
Hope Sidney Crosby is ok?
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