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- redwire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+111I bet it was picked up by a swallow as it was migrating.
A african swallow mind you not a european swallow obviously. Its a question of weight ratios. - bsonline, on 10/12/2007, -4/+81Maybe she threw it REALLY hard?
- GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61The title says "Girl's Message in a Bottle reaches New Zealand from Norway". She actually threw it in Scottland hoping it would reach Norway.
- DucoNihilum, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Must have been global warming
- generalginjur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3215 years from now we hear about the 6 year old girl who sent the message marrying the 6 year old boy who replied to the message and it is promptly made into a Lifetime TV movie.
- tylerdurdenclub, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34I just read she was arrested for internatioinal littering and is being transferred to Guantanamo.
- konradk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Why not look into what large animals travel such a route? Just because it's unlikely, it doesn't mean humans had to intervene.
- rindin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Something sounds fishy about this... There's no steady 18mph ocean currents, not to mention, this would have to be the average.
- juneof44, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25I think the obvious answer is the mermaids helped.
- artdugg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I'm going to have to agree with the scientists in the article who state that there must be some human intervention. I can't imagine what natural occurrence could have taken the bottle across the world in that short of time.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22or Manbearpig
- lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Now that's just silly. Anyone with a brain would realize that the bottle was intelligently pushed by a Noodly Appendage.
Or pirates. - ricosalomar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Are you suggesting that (messages in) bottles are migratory?
- mikesol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That's the first thing I thought of too. Human intervention or not, I hope they become pen pals.
- 0v3rk1ll, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Never say never! That's all I'm gonna say.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Me too -- hope they become penpals...
I did something similar as a kid -- threw a bottle with a note in it into the ocean in New England -- it was answered 6 months later from a girl in Nova Scotia. We were pen-pals for many years afterwards, although we lost touch since then,,,,
Though the bottle making it there sooooo fast seems weird.. but cool nonetheless - coolmos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9A swallow could have done it!
It was scientifically proven here:
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
Just look at the Strouhal Numbers. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12could a whale have swallowed it and got rid of it later?
- Forma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Either someone is playing a joke or maybe it got sucked into a ship's ballast tank off the coast and was then released near New Zealand. Unlikely either way.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm going to go with the theory that it got sucked into a ship's ballast tank and then transported down under that way. There, it was expelled and washed up onto shore nearby.
- funkydude101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9generalginjur...
I was thinking the same thing. Pretty amazing that it was picked up by a 6 year old boy. I don't believe in signs but come on. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7>>>"Unless the bottle had husks, that wouldn't have worked."
It could grip it by the cork! - arcticJKL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Norwegian Blue Parrot Perhaps?
- heffer2k02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow"
yes but uhhh... if it was carrying the bottle it would be somewhat laden, no? - undershirt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4water, is the essence of wetness. *swims away*
- diggtard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I bet Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, a dog, and a mailbox were somehow involved....
- derekbez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Simple answer: The young Kiwi, James Wilson, picked up the bottle while he was on holiday in Norway. But he only wrote back to Keely once he got home to NZ.
On a slightly more serious note, I would like to see a scientific explanation of the route the bottle could have taken. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9You can send mail without paying for it if you are okay with not specifying a recipient, and don't care when or if the mail gets there.
As always, wishes are free. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9You know, whale education is really something we've been neglecting. These whales have the reading skills of an average first grader, yet some of them live to be 100 years old! I sure hope they address this in the next election.
- derekbez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Might be useful for further speculation...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/SurfaceCurrents.png - mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why don't we pick a radio transmiter in a bottle and try it again?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sure there was intervention, but I don't really care. That is still cool. Even if someone found it the next day on the same beach and took it with them and planted it in NZ, that is still spiffy that it is on the other side of the world, however it got there.
It doesn't have to be a mystery of nature in order to be fascinating to a child. - Tarvok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@funkydude101
Well, it's not so unlikely as you might think. Who other than a six-year-old (or other in said age range) is likely to pick up a bottle that washed up onto shore (particularly a plastic one, which doesn't conjure up the images a glass one would), and examine its contents? - LMAOzedong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shame on everyone for ignoring the real story here:
Our oceans are more threatened then ever. Not only will corporations continue to pollute the vast ecosystem of the hydrosphere, now they're getting the children hooked on littering at such a young age.
;p - riceguitar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not buying the swallow theory. The obvious most likely answer is Big Foot.
- starfighter01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pun not intended?
- alternatekev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3For serial!
- freecris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Next time i will need contact $big_software_vendor's tech support I'll should use "message in a bottle" instead email.
It's faster. - - drgibblet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think it's about time we cracked down on all this polluting.
- nikdahl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No one has yet noted that the Subject of this Digg is inaccurate.
The bottle was tossed from SCOTLAND and ended up in NEW ZEALAND. - ineser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amazing how it ended up in NZ...
Sounds fishy - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@nj10ii
Dude, the girl is six years old. Apart from that - funny! - WarPirate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2It wasn't a Swallow, African nor European, nor was it a human or a Manbearpig, or a giant humping whale.
It was a landshark! - PUBAND, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7It was in a "Jona" wine bottle....a whale swallowed it, swam across the seas, then spit it out. The whale got confused...Nineva/New Zealand...well, they both begin with the letter N.
- ohhhL3ThaL, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5I think we are all in agreeance that a Walrus took it.
- mwilding, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6If you want to sned mail for free, put your name and address in the center of the envelope and the recipients name and address in the upper left corner. Forget the stamp and mail it. It will arrive in about the same amount of time as stamped mail. Of course this is illegal...
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7"You can send mail without paying for it if you are okay with not specifying a recipient, and don't care when or if the mail gets there."
...or litering. - happyhappyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5"As a scientist I would usually hedge my bets and leave room for some possibility but there is absolutely no way the bottle could have made it to New Zealand on its own, it must have been picked up by somebody," said Dr Bill Turrell.
- OnlyShawn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Unless the bottle had husks, that wouldn't have worked.
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