Rubber Duckies to Help Track Speed of Melting Glaciers

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[JoeProBono]

Challenged to probe under Greenland's glaciers, NASA robotics expert Alberto Behar wondered what mechanism might endure sub-zero cold, the pressure of mile-thick ice and currents that sometimes exceed the flow rate of Niagara Falls. As Dr. Behar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory soon discovered, though, there isn't much money for global-warming experiments in Greenland... Unfazed, he thought of one device that might survive such extremes at a cost his field expedition could readily afford — a two-dollar rubber duck. Each duck was imprinted with an e-mail address and, in three languages, the offer of a reward.

[JoeProBono]

Love it!

[Gone_Postal]

He's on a mission

[JoeProBono]

[MilspecRob]

Been done. Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464768/Thousands-rubber-ducks-land-British-shores-15-year-journey.html

[Apparatchik]

I’d wager that a significant number won’t make it to their destination - having been frozen in place by the recent onset of Global Cooling. But we’ll never hear about that, thanks to liberal academia and journalism.

[Dutch Boy]

Find one of the ducks and take it one a distant vacation spot. Release it in a place like Cancun, Hawaii, or better yet, a stream or pond in a landlocked country on an different continent.

[JoeProBono]

Cool

[NellieMae]

Something silly I wrote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150440/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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