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2016-09-16 Science & Technology

Russian scientists are ‘besieged' by polar bears at a remote Arctic post

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-16 03:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A global warming promoter/researcher becomes a meal for a polar bear. That image almost made me spill my coffee this a.m.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-16 07:14|| 2016-09-16 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian scientists John

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-16 07:21|| 2016-09-16 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 In Soviet Russia, the bears hunt YOU.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-09-16 07:56|| 2016-09-16 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I was told Polar Bears are almost extinct because of global warming. Meddle ye not in the affairs of Polar Bears as ye be crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-09-16 08:22|| 2016-09-16 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I was involved in the transfer of Point Barrow to the locals back in the day.

Point Barrow had a special siren for Polar Bear warnings. The instructions were to close the blinds, shut the windows, turn off the lights and move to the interior corridors and DO NOT MAKE A SOUND.

Seems a full grown Polar Bear snatched a weatherman at Barrow by coming right through the wall of the building he was in.

A human is not at the top of the food chain in those regions. The Polar Bear is the Great White Shark of the Artic...and probably more dangerous.

A Coast Guardsman at Barrow told me they were out on patrol about 100 miles off shore and came across a Polar Bear swimming along...hunting seals. Seems Polar Bears are bouyant and can swim for hundreds of miles without difficulty.

So much for a fragile endangered species, a Polar Bear is not a kangaroo rat or a moth.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-09-16 10:58|| 2016-09-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 So the scientists can spend more time on science and less on the treadmill.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-16 11:24|| 2016-09-16 11:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Getting rid of polar bears is easy if you know this old Eskimo trick. First you cut a hole in the ice and place peas around the edge. When a polar bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.

Posted by gorb 2016-09-16 12:33|| 2016-09-16 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Go to your room, gorb.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-16 20:58|| 2016-09-16 20:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

Posted by gorb 2016-09-16 23:05|| 2016-09-16 23:05|| Front Page Top

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