Comments on: Morning Swim: The Day After http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:26:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772588 sunshine Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:32:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772588 <p>And more fun news. </p> <blockquote><p>Nasa hunts for its rubber ducks<br /> The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 bathtub toys that were dropped through holes in Greenland’s ice three months ago in an effort to track the way the Arctic icecap is melting. Scientists threw the ducks into tubular holes known as “moulins” in the Jakobshavn glacier on Greenland’s west coast, hoping they would find their way into channels beneath the hard-packed surface, to track the flow of melt water into the ocean.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>Also missing is a football-sized floating robotic probe equipped with a GPS positioning transmitter and powered by hi-tech batteries. It has failed to communicate its position. “We did not hear a signal back, so it probably got stuck under the ice somewhere,” said Behar.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/22/nasa-arctic-icecap-climate-change" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi.....ate-change</a></p> And more fun news.

Nasa hunts for its rubber ducks
The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 bathtub toys that were dropped through holes in Greenland’s ice three months ago in an effort to track the way the Arctic icecap is melting. Scientists threw the ducks into tubular holes known as “moulins” in the Jakobshavn glacier on Greenland’s west coast, hoping they would find their way into channels beneath the hard-packed surface, to track the flow of melt water into the ocean.

Also missing is a football-sized floating robotic probe equipped with a GPS positioning transmitter and powered by hi-tech batteries. It has failed to communicate its position. “We did not hear a signal back, so it probably got stuck under the ice somewhere,” said Behar.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi…..ate-change

]]> By: sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772583 sunshine Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:23:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772583 <p>This news is interesting. Also on raw story is an article on 40 gov’s got white powder mailings from Tx. I posted on it a few doors up.</p> <blockquote><p>Computer Ownership Chart Offers Surprising Breakdown</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/computer-ownership-chart-offers-surprising-breakdown.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.treehugger.com/file.....akdown.php</a></p> This news is interesting. Also on raw story is an article on 40 gov’s got white powder mailings from Tx. I posted on it a few doors up.

Computer Ownership Chart Offers Surprising Breakdown

http://www.treehugger.com/file…..akdown.php

]]> By: gbsavatar http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772572 gbsavatar Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:16:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772572 <p>“The former head of the Chinese company that produced melamine tainted powdered milk may face the death penalty.”</p> <p>What would happen to him/her in the US? Why, collect his/her multi-million dollar bonus and salary and go right on…</p> “The former head of the Chinese company that produced melamine tainted powdered milk may face the death penalty.”

What would happen to him/her in the US? Why, collect his/her multi-million dollar bonus and salary and go right on…

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772511 SouthernDragon Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:08:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772511 <p>Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.</p> <p>Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.</p> <p>Namaste</p> Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772509 Elliott Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:03:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772509 <p><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/" rel="nofollow">CHS upstairs</a><br /> on cockroaches and the press pool</p> CHS upstairs
on cockroaches and the press pool

]]> By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772508 RevBev Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:00:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772508 <p>Or even that pitiful woman who speaks on behalf of her “successful” FDA. Scary.</p> Or even that pitiful woman who speaks on behalf of her “successful” FDA. Scary.

]]> By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772507 egregious Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:00:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772507 <p>Oo the Boston Globe photos - thanks for bringing them here!</p> Oo the Boston Globe photos – thanks for bringing them here!

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772506 SouthernDragon Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:59:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772506 <p>I noticed that neither Norquist or any of his blind followers had anything to say when China flooded our country with melamine laced products. They weren’t screaming about how ineffectual FDA was. Says a lot about them.</p> I noticed that neither Norquist or any of his blind followers had anything to say when China flooded our country with melamine laced products. They weren’t screaming about how ineffectual FDA was. Says a lot about them.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772505 Elliott Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:55:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772505 <p>or look the other way, as in the melamine milk in Halloween candy</p> or look the other way, as in the melamine milk in Halloween candy

]]> By: Cellar47 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772504 Cellar47 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:55:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/morning-swim-the-day-after/#comment-1772504 <p>Good Mornign. And now as a special post-Xmas gift –</p> <p><a href="http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2008/12/david-ehrenstein-presents-barbara.html" rel="nofollow">It’s Barbara Steele Day!</a></p> Good Mornign. And now as a special post-Xmas gift –

It’s Barbara Steele Day!

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