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- sillygato, on 09/22/2008, -1/+75Rubber duckie, you're the one. You make science lots of fun
- dorkus9999, on 09/22/2008, -3/+57They're all just a bunch of Quacks... wouldn't it make more sense to equip the ducks with a GPS... duhhh
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -3/+46Sharks will eat them all.
Nothing can escape the sharks, not even global warming.
Nothing.
N o t h i n g . - skabyss, on 09/22/2008, -0/+16NASA must be budget cutting...
- zadadka, on 09/22/2008, -0/+161992.
A ship hit by a storm shed it's cargo of various rubber toys, including ducks.
These have been travelling the ocean currents since then.
eg:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-397263/Dra ...
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2003-08-01 ... - jasonstahl, on 09/22/2008, -0/+14They clearly only care where they end up. For someone to find them, they must surface again. At that point GPS would work again. My guess is it was done this way for budget reasons. As in "we're curious, but not enough to spend real money on it."
- AmyVernon, on 09/22/2008, -3/+13Rubber duckie, you're my very best friend it's true, boop-boop-boopity-boo!
- badwarhol, on 09/22/2008, -6/+16Even though they are cute rubber ducks....isn't this still a form of pollution? Where is Woodsy when you need him?
- chanop, on 09/22/2008, -2/+11Does GPS work under water? or under ice for that matter?
- Medicamusic, on 10/28/2008, -0/+9Im not sure why you got dugg down... seems like pollution to me.
- Lucas123, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7Sharks -- FTW
- 955701, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7Do people? Obviously they aren't expecting people to dig into the ice and get the ducks. So GPS is actually an option.
- BOFH139, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7616
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6"The Jakobshavn Glacier is believed to be the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912"
You thought we forgot that ***** Jakobshaven? Humanity always triumphs over nature...always! - CarStan, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6What has science done?
- Indoze, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6I've done some work on the Bering Glacier, Alaska, and I remember researchers there telling me that they had attempted to spray paint a few hundred tennis balls bright, visible colors, and drop them into the glacier.
The result: 6 years later, not a single intact tennis ball has been found, save for the occasional shredded remains of what might have been a tennis ball at one time. Sadly, I can't see much more coming from this experiment in Greenland. - Squidwalk, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5They could use solar panels and burst transition like the TurtleNet people did.
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/dome/index.php?page=ter ...
They only need to transmit when they've surfaced anyway. - inactive, on 09/22/2008, -4/+9hopefully these ducks will help expose the quackery that is manmade global warming.
- elementop, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Bang for the buck.
Sometimes the simple solution is the best one. No electronics means no water damage, no need for power, etc. - charters14, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5I'm all for going ruba-dub-dub in the tub with a rubber duck, but who is going to find that and take it seriously? This is the modern era, couldn't we have used Aquaman or some *****? Or at least this cool new thing, I think its called GPS, not sure though
- inigomntoya, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5I think they should just drop the researchers in the water. "Two birds, one stone"
- memper, on 09/22/2008, -1/+6
See if I toss a pepsi can, and plastic container ring down a river, I can measure the speed of the flow! Then if someone finds the can they can email me. Look at me litter! I am helping the environment!
The rubber duck idea is actually from a garbage problem: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2003/07/22/rubber_duc ... - Zzzzz, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4Ummm poor little neanderthal duckies! Trapped in their ice caves.... no way out.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5Poor duckies, all alone in the cold and the dark. =(
- frforums, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4Same point we were going to make. Aren't they concerned some sea animal will eat one, and it will cause some intestinal problem or death? Reminds us of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer's(?) golf ball got stuck in a whale's blow hole.
- Squidwalk, on 09/22/2008, -1/+5Good point. Isn't yellow supposed to be a highly visible color to sharks?
- ratzfatz, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4"Scientists are still unsure about why glaciers speed up in summer and head towards the sea." Hmm. Let's think about it. Ice speeding up in summer? Tough question. This justifys for research with 90 plastic ducks.
- tkcom, on 09/22/2008, -1/+5Wait... eskimos have email?
- jbmcb, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I love that story. I'm surprised there hasn't been a March Of The Penguins style documentary about it yet.
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3dugg because i misread the duck part
- paulieslim, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3and you thought animals were fooled into thinking plastic bags are food...
- burnstyle, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3to me it would be more of a battery life issue.
or the possibility that over time the sun would dry out the tops of the ducks causing a slight crack that may allow moisture to come in contact with the gps unit. - SIRBERUS, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3On a side note, I hope they have a good spam filter. It'd be a shame if the first e-mail NASA gets regarding the first rubber duck being found in Nigeria and the guy just needs some bank details to prove it. I don't want to have to bail out our space program as well -_-.
- wunksta, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3*cough*chrysler*cough*fanniemae*cough*
- Azuvic, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4I wonder how many sharks and sea predators are going to eat the rubber duckies thinking they are food
- Squidwalk, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4C'mon, it's like $150 worth of duckies. We've spent almost $600 billion on the war. That's four billion times the amount spent on duckies. Seriously, pick your battles.
- Pronation, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3No, it's important for ducks.
- leland1, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3The Jakobshavn Glacier in Western Greenland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobshavn_Isbr%C3%A6
When Greenland is all melted, there will be a large, deep lake where someone will be fishing. This person will find 60-70 rubber ducks frozen inside of a large slab of ice at the bottom of the deep part of the lake.
This person will thaw the ice slab and play with rubber duckies in the bathtub. Scientists will visit this person and steal most of the rubber duckies, leaving this person with one to keep.
Yes... rubber duckies make science fun... until scientists leave you with just one.
:-) - dajuggernaut, on 09/22/2008, -3/+6oh yeah.. when NASA decides to drop 90 rubber ducks on purpose out in the middle of nowhere, no ones says a damn thing.. but, when i accidentally drop my inflatable midget girlfriend out of my duffel bag people start having a problem...
- primary0, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I call them geoducks...
- enevitable, on 09/22/2008, -3/+6"Yeah we're going to need 10 million to go do this glacier experiment out in Greenland...."
- primary0, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3and highly delicious too
- joeanon, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2There have been great spills of rubber duckies before they are still out there in the oceans some stuck in ocean currents for years.
It was actually turned into a bit of a ocean current tracking experiment after it happened.
Probably where they got the idea in the first place. - Jashobeam5, on 09/23/2008, -0/+2It's NASA which is funded by our tax dollars. Those ducks cost $10,000 each no matter what was in them.
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2Understanding global warming by littering, brilliant!
- eavesdrop, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2Uhh. Maybe it was a pr thing, the research DID get attention. Now come the investors, hopefully.
- elementop, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2...and because a rubber duck will easily deform under pressure from the ice sheets, but still can still retain its integrity and float when released from the ice.
- joeanon, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2But... how would the duck know ?
- pyrotix, on 09/22/2008, -4/+6I'm a shark, I'm a shaaaaark, suck my diiiiick, I'm a shaaaark
- penguining, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1and then they wonder why the ice is melting so fast.. ridiculous
What if a polar bear chokes in one?? -
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