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The awe-inspiring and breathtaking pictures of life and survival on our melting polar worlds
Daily Mail ^ | October 15th 2011 | Craig Mackenzie

Posted on 10/15/2011 1:39:23 PM PDT by Cardhu

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To: BatGuano

True. We are between ice ages and toward the end of this warm period. Soon enough a large part of the northern hemisphere will once again be a ‘polar wilderness’.


41 posted on 10/15/2011 3:33:32 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Cardhu
"Isn't she - the female of the species is always cute except in birds"

I wonder if the male of this species thinks she is cute?


Female Naked Mole Rat


42 posted on 10/15/2011 4:10:31 PM PDT by yorkie (There's only ONE "CAIN"......all the rest CAIN'T!)
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To: BatGuano

I will say this, God help us all if the planet starts a significant downturn in temperature. Many will starve, many will die, and that is not opinion, but fact.


43 posted on 10/15/2011 4:12:37 PM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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To: Cardhu
A giant iceberg hundreds of metres across which would dwarf most of the world's buildings. It collapsed from Store Glacier on the west coast of Greenland.

It is instructive to read about how and why icebergs come about. There's plenty of snow and ice in Maine but there are no icebergs calving from its coast.

ML/NJ

44 posted on 10/15/2011 4:13:20 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: yorkie

OMG - How do they ever reproduce?


45 posted on 10/15/2011 4:16:34 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu
How do they ever reproduce?

Well, you see, the male gets... uh.......and the female ... uh ........Wait a minute - didn't your parents tell you how reproduction occurs?

46 posted on 10/15/2011 4:25:43 PM PDT by yorkie (There's only ONE "CAIN"......all the rest CAIN'T!)
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To: yorkie
didn't your parents tell you how reproduction occurs?

Yes they did but they sort or mentioned something about luving - I wonder if these naked mole rats are blind.

47 posted on 10/15/2011 4:39:13 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu
"luving"?

I thought that was something only 'wimmin' believed in....besides - what does vision have to do with 'luving'?

To the naked mole rat - I'll bet she is the most beautiful thing in the world. If he is blind, he can feel the hairy warts, at least. LOL!!!

48 posted on 10/15/2011 4:45:00 PM PDT by yorkie (There's only ONE "CAIN"......all the rest CAIN'T!)
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To: Cardhu

It’s dark down in the tunnels.
:)


49 posted on 10/15/2011 4:46:55 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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50 posted on 10/15/2011 4:47:20 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: yorkie

YUK!


51 posted on 10/15/2011 4:47:21 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

-—Our melting polar worlds have been captured in breathtaking pictures by the BBC for this autumn’s landmark natural history series Frozen Planet.-—
Is the BBC solar powered? Why don’t they save the planet by broadcasting an appeal to their viewers to turn off their TVs and never watch them again. Then they can shut down the power to the BBC and go home and sit in the dark.


52 posted on 10/15/2011 4:49:31 PM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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To: Cardhu

Now, now. Don’t look a .gif horse in the mouth, much less a .gif bear!


53 posted on 10/15/2011 4:54:07 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Then that explains the evolutionary minimalism


54 posted on 10/15/2011 4:54:14 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Hunton Peck

:)


55 posted on 10/15/2011 4:55:40 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Dixie Yooper
"My arm still hurts where my wife punched me."

LOL!

56 posted on 10/15/2011 5:01:20 PM PDT by tiapam (And Cain Will Deliver!)
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To: albie

albie - the BEST post (bar none) of the day!!!


57 posted on 10/15/2011 5:04:50 PM PDT by yorkie (There's only ONE "CAIN"......all the rest CAIN'T!)
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To: Cardhu

Wonderful pictures....Thank you!!


58 posted on 10/15/2011 5:15:05 PM PDT by tiapam (And Cain Will Deliver!)
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To: tiapam

Thank you tiapam - I am off to bed now.


59 posted on 10/15/2011 5:19:15 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: workerbee
Yet it sometimes seems we get better (truthful, balanced) coverage of our politics from the Brits than the American press. Why is that?

Your partially correct. Sometimes the British Press will cover stories the American Press won't touch. For example when we have riots here that have a racial component, the British Press is more likely to point out this, whereas the American Press is so PC it's sickening. And the Brits love it when they can show America having problems. They thrive on that.

But the British Press is very lousy covering American Politics. They really don't understand American Politics very well. I know a Brit who has lived here for over 25 years and just got American Citizenship about 5 years ago. He's a bright and educated fellow. But he told me that he didn't understand American Politics until he had lived here 10-15 years at least. It took that long.
60 posted on 10/15/2011 5:30:25 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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