Comments on: NASA Uses 90 Rubber Ducks to Study Global Warming

By: Sili

Sili — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Relax, people!

It's publicity. Outreach. Call it what you want. I cutesy way to engage the public in research.

Damn. And if they hadn't done it this way some woulda accused them of being insulated ivory-tower elitists.

Do you really think it's that much more expensive to attach a rubberduck to the probes? Or should they just have skipped the probes and bought more duckies instead?

Whiners.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:35:09 +0000

I still can't decide what is worse the fact they are using rubber ducks or the fact they got approval to do this

By: geokstr

geokstr — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:23:24 +0000

I think it is highly appropriate that such a prestigious scientific organization should use rubber duckies to study Global Warmi…I'm sorry, my bad, Climate Change.

After all, the Big Bird in charge of NASA's division that propagates this dubious politically correct "theory" is a quack.

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:11:23 +0000

That rubber duck looks pensive and kind of sad…

Or maybe he's contemplating the frigid water he'll be swimming in soon…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:21:22 +0000

just wondering if anyone figured out that global warming is caused by pulling oil out of the ground the earth is like a car if you take oil out of a car then it overheats same as the earth. so what good is all the other testing too much money spent and still playing with rubber ducks go figure

By: Chuck Lam

Chuck Lam — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:03:47 +0000

Has anyone come across tax-payer cost for this nonsense?

By: Jahmin

Jahmin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:23:50 +0000

Interesting experiment, but seriously, what about all the 'litter' they're causing with all those undiscovered rubber duckies :/
And yeah, I'm sure animal activists would be opposed to this – causing maybe choking hazards in some big animals thinking it's food.

Maybe they were made biodegradable?

By: kerenna soul

kerenna soul — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:22:49 +0000

This is ridiculous, there are probably a lot of sea animals that think they are food and being poisoned

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:54:33 +0000

If this were April 1st, I would have expected an article like this.

I can't believe our taxes are going to be paying for this? Ask a 5th grader why glaciers speed up during the summer. It doesn't take too many brain cells to figure it out.

By: Freiddie

Freiddie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:24:11 +0000

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if they just monitored the ducks 24/7 via GPS?

By: marcellus

marcellus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:07:05 +0000

I'd say that the fact that when you have sunshine and warmer temperatures in the summertime might have something to do with the glacier speeding up.

By: Chuck Lam

Chuck Lam — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:56:51 +0000

Hmm . . . at least this doesn't appear to be a hundred million dollar project. Or is it?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:53:40 +0000

I'd say Jupiter

By: Vino

Vino — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:56:13 +0000

I wonder what is the most unexpected place to find this little duck?????