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To: VRWCTexan
I guess it would be "unfair" in the eyes of the scientists to lend a helping hand by providing food for the chicks??

Not sure that's practical. Pengun Chow is probably hard to buy in Antarctica.

But something caught my attention. The penguins have to travel 60 miles to get to water to catch food for their chicks?
Either those dumm penguins walked waaaaay too far to lay their eggs, or, as I suspect, there is water just below them, if they could get to it and catch their own food.

How thick is the ice? How big a deal is it to help them get access to the fish where they are? How difficult can it be for the wisest creature on the planet, who would presume to "stop global warming"?

17 posted on 12/17/2004 3:12:00 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Publius6961

"Wilson, New Zealand's project leader for the study of the four Adele penguin colonies in the region, said he was sure all the colonies would survive -- though their numbers could decline by up to 70 percent."

Just like I'm sure that it has happened many times before.


20 posted on 12/17/2004 3:17:23 PM PST by geopyg ("And the whiners will eventually move on to bitch about something else." (Donald Rumsfeld))
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To: Publius6961

I think the ice is over 200 yards thick. It'll take ages if you want to pick through it with a beak.


21 posted on 12/17/2004 3:18:30 PM PST by floridarolf
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