It must be embarrassing to the whole nuclear industry too ... bad publicity for them, these things are never forgotten ... nuke power would be such a great idea, if it worked ... in Ontario they've had huge problems with nuke plants, more cost overruns than accidents really, but the dollar figures involved were truly scarey .... it's a good thing our NDP [highly socialist] guvmint here in BC a few years ago didn't launch off toward nuke power, what they did do, was spend half a billion loonies building two 'fast' ferries, that weren't all that big, couldn't be run fast because they created too much wake and were a hazard to other craft, had all kinds of other problems and a fantastic per-hour operating cost, so the next government sold them for about eight cents on the dollar ... had that been a nuke plant, we'd be more famous for it, plus we couldn't have floated it off to some other poor suckers
In re grizzly/polar bears, Canadian Geographic did an article on them, some surprising things in it - the two species are actually quite close genetically, very little difference and they can interbreed ... the polar evolved from the grizzly quite recently, and grizzlies are known to go out on the ice too, they can catch a seal out of water, but not in ... one was known to kill and eat a young polar bear, and his seal pup kills as well ... the inuit say that grizzlies go out on the ice more now than before, and that this is a sign of general warming
And back to the noocular - there is a sidebar in the piece about a guy who measures deuterium and other isotopes in bear breath to determine what they eat, and where they ate it ... apparently he and a partner did the same thing with monarch butterflies, and got famous for solving some mysteries about them ... doesn't say how many butterflies it takes to fill a beaker with breath, or who holds the beaker for the bear |
