23 September 2008

Reward offered for rubber duckies


NASA researchers have dropped 90 ducks into holes in Greenland's fastest moving glacier, the Jakobshavn Glacier in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada.

The toys have each been labelled with the words "science experiment" and "reward" in three languages, along with an e-mail address...

Alberto Behar of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said none of the ducks had been reported yet. "We haven't heard back but it may take some time until somebody actually finds it and decides to send us an e-mail that they have found it," he said. "These are places that are quite remote so there aren't people walking around...

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