a polar bear and a submarine

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[InvisibleChurch]

A polar bear investigates the submarine top of USS Connecticut during a Navy ice exercise near Prudhoe Bay off the northern coast of Alaska on April 27, 2003 in this photographic handout. James Watkins, chairman of a presidential oceans commission, traveled abaoard the sub to find out more about research on climate change from a Navy ice station for Artic research, from where the photo was taken.

[InvisibleChurch]

Polar Bear

[D. Brian Carter]

Hey, that looks like the set where they filmed the fake moon landing!

[martin_fierro]

"This &&#($#@ seal has the toughest skin I've ever seen!"

[etcetera]

The bear's hungry. He can smell the food in the mess.

[Nitro]

Just kick him in the icehole.

[4mycountry]

"Helloooooooo down there!"

[Nitro]

Agreed.

If Hubble can "see" 4.5 Billion light years, let them take one picture of the undercarriage of one of the 6 LEM's left on the lunar surface.

[D. Brian Carter]

I hope you're kidding, as was I.

[VOA]

The bear's hungry. He can smell the food in the mess.

"Just the way I like 'em, crunchy on the outside with a gooey center!"

--IIRC, caption of a Far Side cartoon showing two polar bears who'd just
taken down an igloo (and presumably an Eskimo inside)

[Nitro]

Actually, if I remember correctly...

the bear did some hellacious damage to "anti-sonar" hull encasement.

[Nitro]

See FReepmail.

[VOA]

A polar bear investigates the submarine top of USS Connecticut during a Navy ice
exercise near Prudhoe Bay off the northern coast of Alaska on April 27, 2003
in this photographic handout.

This can't be for real. Greenpeace has told us all that there's hardly any ice
in the Artic anymore and that all the polar bears are so weak from lack of
food they can hardly stand up, let alone hunt a nuclear submarine!

Greenpeace wouldn't lie to us, would they?

[Tribune7]

Ice Station Zebra.

[Nitro]

At first yes, but now I am beginning to wonder.

I can't get by the Solar radiation thing and how little the Apollo Spacecraft were shielded.

Further, why have we gone from "The Earth to the Moon" to "The Earth and the Area just above Earth?"

In all of history exploration goes further not shorter!

[Nitro]

Go back to the initial page at the top and it will say "Your mail". Click in and read.

[GladesGuru]

Even with the whackos and seasons, one wonders about the costs of standing by while watching such damage being done - why not make a bear rug of the furry vandal?

It is not as if they are legitimately endangered. They are the top predator, after all. Endangering every other eatable species they can reach is their job description.

Churchhill is loaded with 'em each year. And before some Greenie lurker decides to flame me over "taking" a polar bear, consider that such animals are at the top of the food chain.

Just what is making them so endangered? Or is this a case of another spotted owl, but bigger and grounded?

[Nitro]

I'm no tree-hugging, dirt-munching Druid, but I respect these guys for all they endure.

The way I see it is, if you are gonna eat it... go ahead and shoot it.

I just don't hold with trophy hunting.

I do my hunting at the local butcher shop.

[Castlebar]

Even with the whackos and seasons, one wonders about the costs of standing by while watching such damage being done - why not make a bear rug of the furry vandal?

Fluffy the gentle polar bear is attacking the rudder - possibly the running light. This picture was probably taken from #2 scope. Back when we surfaced at 90 North (1987) the arctic operations bill required a sailor in the conning tower with an M-14 if any personnel were on the ice.

In fact, as I recall, a mama seal and her pup spashed around in the discharge from our Aux Seawater Heat exchnager - it probably felt to them like a bath in the nice warm urine from a giant whale....