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To: dfwgator
What nonsense!

The temperature difference from the equator to the N pole (around 6000 miles) is in the order of 50C. To go to a place that's 0.7C cooler, the snail would have to migrate about 84 miles and has 100 years to do it (around 1,000,000 hrs).

So it would have to gallop along at an average speed of around one ten-thousandth of an hour.

14 posted on 05/15/2012 1:23:18 PM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2
Is that an inch per hour ?

Or a foot per hour?

I think they can manage both of those.

15 posted on 05/15/2012 1:36:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
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