Posted on 12/20/2008 11:32:27 PM PST by JoeProBono
The American space agency NASA has made an appeal for public help with one of its stranger experiments.
It wants information on the fate of 90 rubber ducks deployed on a special mission to pinpoint where melt waters go under the Greenland ice shelf in summer months.
The bathroom toys were put into one of the crevasses which drain vast amounts of Greenland's melt waters in the hope they would pop out eventually and reveal the route taken by the water.
Nothing has been seen or heard of the ducks since.
I have a devil duckie too...he lights up like a Disco Duck when his bottom gets wet! :)
Oh dear, that sounded like a naughty joke in the making...I need to coffee myself before posting privileges are granted in the mornings!
Call PETA, NASA is abusing rubber ducks.
Stories like this really quack me up.....
Gonna pose a real problem for scientists in the distant future when they start turning up in deep (old) ice core samples.
Perhaps my conservative hidden base idea is being done. After hearing that Russian subs used to hide under the arctic ice pack undetected during the cold war I came up with this.
A rich conservative buys a Russian nuke submarine or builds his own. With a select crew they build a secret small underwater base under the ice sheet for the crew and their family. As soon as possible they expand and build underwater towns using nuclear power and underwater mining as resources. They build a fleet of attack submarines to keep the cities secret and to defend them from outside liberal forces if discovered.
More and more conservatives disappear to Galt’s Gulch under the ice cap and within 100 years the liberals on the surface of the planet has returned their civilization to the stone age. We then return to the surface and retake control.
Century-old message in a bottle found[UK]
The Northern Echo | 20 Dec 2008 | Jim McTaggart
Posted on 12/20/2008 10:52:35 AM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2151982/posts
Right.
No, no, no. It would take too long & we have too many folks. I say we mass on the Washington/Idaho/Montana border with Canada & invade. We take the NW provinces, hook up with Alaska & form our own country. :-)
I hope you don’t know any naughty jokes.
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