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- DiggityMcDigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+288I'm guessing that the note said something about the watch being buried at the North Pole by a man named Joergen Amundsen...
Alternatively, if you need something a little more exciting....
"Hello Niels. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. Here's what happens if you lose. The device you are wearing is hooked on to your wrist. When the clock strikes twelve, your arm will explode. There is only one key to stop the device. It's in the brain of your mother. Look around Niels. Know that I'm not lying. Better hurry up. Live or die, make your choice."
Pause while young boy considers his options...
"Actually, I'm just *****' wit ya. April Fools! Enjoy the Rolex." - CravenTwain, on 10/12/2007, -8/+142Actually the note said:
"If you can read this, that means the polar ice caps are melting and we're all going to die. Whoops". - antifolkhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+111@1krazykorean: Confucius say, man who drop watch in toilet have ***** time.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -27/+102No, no, no. The note said:
"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the penguins were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you." - LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71And the note said....... ?
Stupid article to tease like that. - robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36Note: "See?!?! Norwegians can make good watches too! Suck it, Swiss!!"
- 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Hmm what kind of watch was it, I dropped mine in the toilet once and it stopped working...
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29I am afraid to know why you arm was in the toilet
- guice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19It was a sundial.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17antifolkhero: thanx, now i have pepsi all over my keyboard.
- wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@ bpunch
.25 cents? do you mean .25 dollars? your work verizon don't you? - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yes, because it's one that Joergen himself specifically buried there. He made 250 of the things, designed to withstand the cold, and carried them there for "testing". One he buried in memory of his ancestor, Roald Amundsen.
Article with more info:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=445465&in_page_id=1811
The other 249 watches sold for about $9500 or so each. - blubadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Recommended browsing for the previous poster but one:
http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com
Oh, and also it's Tag HEUER. - senorcool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Swatch?
- ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Me too! But mine isn't made of neon plastic.
- MateFrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Even more evidence:
http://www.velux5oceans.com/page/Partners/0,,12345~900516,00.html
The Polar Timepiece by Amundsen Oslo has been designed to withstand the toughest conditions on Earth. To test them in their true element, Jørgen Amundsen carried 250 North Pole limited edition wristwatches to 90 degrees north and back. The Amundsen Expedition reached the North Pole on 19 April 2004. The North Pole limited edition was released this June 2004.
I bet only 249 came back. - MateFrio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Amundsen Oslo is my guess on the brand of watch.
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) is generally considered to be the greatest polar explorer of all times. He was the first man to reach th South Pole, on 14th of December 1911, after a close race with the British expedition, headed by Captain Robert F. Scott. In 1926 Amundsen was the first to fly across the Arctic basin, from Spitsbergen to Alaska via the North Pole in the airship Norge.
Thus Roald Amundsen was the first person ever to visit both the North Pole and the South Pole.
Amundsen Oslo was founded in 2002 by Jørgen Amundsen, a relative of Roald Amundsen. He is greatly inspired by his forefather and runs the company with many of the same qualities as the late explorer.
http://kontinentfilm.com/ref.asp?ref=78&lang=_dk
http://www.amundsenoslo.com/ - stoppedcode12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@spz104
The world has been progressively warmer year after year, it's a fact that can't be disputed. The thing is, although there natural ocean currents occur and causes ice caps to be melted, there has been more melting going on than there is in the past.
Have a good look at this:
http://www.everybodysweather.com/Static_Media/Polar_Ice_Cap_Melter/index.htm
and it's reference
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2005/2005092820527.html
NASA > some oceanographer named "Hjalmar Hatun" - Lars0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is an April Fools prank. There is no way that it could have been released from ice at the north pole by now. And there is no way the watch could have still been working. Where is Faeroes? Everything is improbable and points to a prank. Well done.
- GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Not to feed into his propaganda as I don't give a ***** about global warming activists, as they think its the governments fault that they're melting.. .Nope, its everyones fault if they are. sorry.
anywho, heres 2 pictures the represent what hes taking about how much they've melted
http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/satellite_observations_of_the_polar_ice_cap_1979_and_2003 - AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9"Boy finds watch after it floats 1,802mi from North Pole"
There, I corrected the headline for you.
You're welcome. - SealandRes1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think the important point here is because the ice caps are melting, there has been more ocean current than there has been in the past.
check out the nasa videos:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050928/01.mpg
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050928/04.mpg
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050928/05.mpg
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050928/02.jpg
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20050928/03.jpg - ganeshmax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and the note said:
good catch. now throw it back to me... - mikeneilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The polar ice caps melted and all I got was this lousy wristwatch..."
- McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dugg for comments alone. Digg user's ideas of note > actual note.
- crzdmnsldy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no matter what the note said, or what kind of watch it was.. that's just awesome :)
- Boofster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So let this be a lesson to people burying random junk at the North Pole,
BURY COOLER STUFF! - wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@VeganG
if your gonna try and make the joke, why not finish it? - benjie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They knew it would end up on digg, so they saved us the trouble of digging down whichever idiot latched on to it and wouldn't let go.
- jackdaw7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Right, I am Faroese, so let me just straighten out some facts. This story is NOT an April Fools prank. Here is the original story in native Faroese, with picture of the boy and the watch: http://www.portal.fo/index.php?lg=37564
The boy had been walking with his grandfather along the shoreline, when they found the box. Grandpa said he should leave it alone, that it might be a bomb, but curiosity got the better of the boy. I guess (/hope) that grandpa said this more to stop the boy from rummaging through all the garbage that floats ashore, than because he believed it to be a bomb.
Inside the box was another box with the watch, which was unscaled and ticking even though the box was filled with seawater.
It turned out that this was a luxury watch, famed for its robustness, that Jørgen Amundsen, grandson of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, builds in Oslo, Norway. It was the first of a series of 250 watches, that Jørgen Amundsen had with him on an expedition to the North Pole. This watch was buried in the ice right at the North Pole, while the rest was taken back to Norway and sold for a lot of money (over US$10.000 a piece).
And by the way, that was what the note said. Not that it was expensive, but more like "This watch is the first of a series of 250 watches that Jørgen Amundsen had with him to the North Pole. He buried this one". Etc etc. Explaining what this was, like any other decent bottle post would.
Somehow it then broke free of the ice, and drifted to the Faroe Isles. We get a lot of driftwood from all kinds of places here, timber from Canada etc. Unfortunately a lot of plastic crap too, from USA, Britain and mainland Europe. Remember that even though the Atlantic is big, drifting stuff drifts until it either sinks or drifts ashore. Could be here, Iceland, Norway, where ever. One of our more famous artists, Tróndur Patursson, has built his house and studio only by using driftwood from Canada.
Journalists and the rest of us immediately thought 'global warning', and that is where oceanographer Hjálmar Hátún entered the story. Asked by the Faroese media, he said that it was highly unlikely that global warming had anything to do with the watch breaking free of the ice. That it was just a normal part of the oceanic currents etc. It happens all the time, and we are if not close, then one of the closest neighbours to the North Pole.
But still, it is always fun when this happens, and the watch would be expensive even if it had never been to the North Pole :-)
- bpunch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's a .25 cent machine special
- benjie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't bet on it. I took my old Timex Ironman and ran it over with my truck, froze it, slammed it into a wall, and blew it up (with fireworks, if that counts) and there's barely even a scratch. The only reason I replaced it is because a retard cut the strap and it needed a new battery, and buying a new one was cheaper than replacing those.
/OT - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'll bury some scuba gear. I have a feeling it'll come in handy real soon.
- AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6DID ANYONE READ TFA???
"Hatun said the ice breaking off is not related to global warming, as the phenomenon was first observed more than 100 years ago. 'So in that sense, the fact that objects from the North Pole can drift south is old news,' he said."
Ice flows... like the Earth's crust. It's not Global Warming! - loquax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Some thoughts:
1) An Inconvenient Truth==Really neat gifts come floating your way from the North Pole
2) Maybe Santa's Castle Sunk and this watch was all that was left.
3) This isn't evidence of global warming, it just proves that God miracled the entire universe to tilt, leaving the watch in place. The Faeroe Islands are now at the top of the world and will soon be renamed Svalbard. - SealandRes1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's 20% since 1979. When did your teacher tell you about that interesting little 'fact'? 1979?
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you're not alone. read a few comments up ^^
- fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTA: "So in that sense, the fact that objects from the North Pole can drift south is old news,"
Well duh, I guess if you are at the north pole, the only way you can drift is south! - Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2he burried number 001/250 it says on that website. Pretty cool find.
- nighttrain2007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another side effect of the supposed ice melting. Think of all the artifacts, discoveries, etc. we'll be able to find as the earth goes through a regular cycle we have nothing to do with. Fossils in ice? Who knows?
- nakile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good thing it didn't land in Boston, or they would have blown it up.
- mikeneilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@jeffeb3,
Well then maybe saying 20% of the ice caps have melted (the graph in question makes NO mention of area versus volume) is a bit alarmist. Is there even a remote chance that the creator of that graph didn't have some motive in mind when carefully wording that as he/she did? This is why I distrust most of the "research" I see at this point. Everyone has an opinion, no one cares about facts. - vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Faroes do exist, I grew up there ;)
This is the story on a faroese news site: http://portal.fo/index.php?lg=37564 . A picture of the little boy with the watch is included. It's written in Faroese.
Btw, the watch was an Amundsen Oslo: http://www.amundsenoslo.com/ - mikeneilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I keep wondering this, but have yet to get a good answer, so maybe one of you who posted and/or defended the "red line" map can enlighten me.
When I was a kid, they told us in school that if the polar ice caps melted, all of Manhattan would be underwater up to... I forget exactly, but some high floor of one of the skyscrapers. If 20% of the polar ice cap has melted (as indicated in that graph), then why the heck aren't we up to at least street level in Manhattan?
Somebody blatantly lied (or is lying) to us. Who is it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love the comment thrown in that it wasn't due to 'global warming!' Hahahahaha
- wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1meh, wrong reply, digg down
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3most things stop working when it gets really cold.. for one
Light even slows down to a speed people can win in a race against it across a room! hence electrons will slow down as well and mechanical movements are hindered as they adhere due to moister bonding and crystallization and increased surface tension or viscosity. - catbeller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I call shennanigans.
Hjalmar Hatun is an oceanographer who has done work on the disruption of the thermohaline cycle in the north Atlantic from global warming.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5742/1841
I don't see a man who writes about the thermohaline cycle disruptions caused by fresh water flow from melting arctic ice saying that arctic ice melt isn't caused in part by the very global warming he's researching. Either he was quoted out of context, or his name was attached to a fake story. - jnajera, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3If that is the watch he burried it has a valjoux 7751 movement in it. ... Swiss movement ... Now owned by Swatch. The guy above who jokingly said Swatch, is correct.
- shortarabguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My God! Something floated in the ocean and ended up on a beach?! Stop the presses, we have a new front page article!
It's not exactly stunning that this happened... it's like saying that someone found something useful on the beach with a letter explaining from where it came. Oh wait, that's exactly what this is.
And before you digg me down for not considering that a fish or a whale could have eaten it, I did consider it and nothing could have eaten it. It's a black metal box. What COULD eat it? A whale? That box isn't exactly lingering around in the water depths that a whale lives in, and a fish probably couldn't have devoured a big metal box...
I marked it as lame for the fact that the story essentially comes down to "something from far away ended up on a beach and a kid found it." -
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