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Rubber Duckies to Help Track Speed of Melting Glaciers
foxnews ^

Posted on 11/23/2008 1:47:48 AM PST by JoeProBono

Challenged to probe under Greenland's glaciers, NASA robotics expert Alberto Behar wondered what mechanism might endure sub-zero cold, the pressure of mile-thick ice and currents that sometimes exceed the flow rate of Niagara Falls. As Dr. Behar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory soon discovered, though, there isn't much money for global-warming experiments in Greenland... Unfazed, he thought of one device that might survive such extremes at a cost his field expedition could readily afford — a two-dollar rubber duck. Each duck was imprinted with an e-mail address and, in three languages, the offer of a reward.

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TOPICS: Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climate; glaciers; godsgravesglyphs; nasa; rubberduck; thorheyerdahl; thorheyerduck
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To: mewzilla
Love it!


21 posted on 11/23/2008 4:56:44 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: JoeProBono

He's on a mission
22 posted on 11/23/2008 4:58:40 AM PST by Gone_Postal (We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat)
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To: steelyourfaith

23 posted on 11/23/2008 5:00:17 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: JoeProBono

Been done. Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464768/Thousands-rubber-ducks-land-British-shores-15-year-journey.html


24 posted on 11/23/2008 5:02:05 AM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’d wager that a significant number won’t make it to their destination - having been frozen in place by the recent onset of Global Cooling. But we’ll never hear about that, thanks to liberal academia and journalism.


25 posted on 11/23/2008 5:34:24 AM PST by Apparatchik ("Hope" is not a course of action. "Change" is a not a policy.)
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To: Apparatchik

Find one of the ducks and take it one a distant vacation spot. Release it in a place like Cancun, Hawaii, or better yet, a stream or pond in a landlocked country on an different continent.


26 posted on 11/23/2008 6:00:42 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: MilspecRob
Cool


27 posted on 11/23/2008 6:12:13 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: All

Something silly I wrote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150440/posts


28 posted on 11/23/2008 5:14:54 PM PST by NellieMae (Here...... common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
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 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks JoeProBono.

Note: this topic is from November 23, 2008.

Blast from the Past.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


29 posted on 05/22/2012 9:38:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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