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scottobearBlack and White cookies and strong coffee. Yum is the word.
Though, to the geek in me, they invariably remind me of the black and whites on that old star trek episode.
Find where and when Star trek is playing in your area. (My personal prefs are old series, some next gen and DS9)
Eleven years ago a container of thousands of bathroom toys... rubber ducks, turtles, frogs, etc., fell off a cargo ship going from China to Seattle. Oceanographers have been tracking the swarm of toys, and learning about ocean currents. The flock of 29,000 toys has traveled around the Arctic, and they should soon be beaching themselves on New England shores.
Thousands of rubber ducks and other bath-time toys are due to become the unlikely allies of oceanographers 11 years after they were cast overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle.
The floating flock of 29,000 ducks and their companions - turtles, beavers and frogs - is heading for the New England coast, bleached and battered after a journey around the Arctic. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents.
The toys were cast adrift as the container ship carrying them encountered a storm in the Pacific Ocean. They floated along the Alaska coast and reached the Bering Strait by 1995, and Iceland five years later. By 2001 they had floated to the area in the north Atlantic where the Titanic sank.
"Some kept going, some turned and headed to Europe," says Curtis Ebbesmeyer of Seattle, a retired oceanographer who's been tracking their progress. "By now, hundreds should be dispersed along the New England coast."
Dr Ebbesmeyer has been able to track the toys that have washed ashore. He said they have been a useful tool in teaching oceanography, and have shed light on the way surface currents behave.
They are also a sobering reminder that about 10,000 containers fall off ships each year.
Dr Ebbesmeyer has also tracked 3 million pieces of Lego, 34,000 hockey gloves; and 50,000 Nike trainers that were spilled in 1999.
Fred Felleman, of the environmental group Ocean Advocates, said container ships carry 95% of the world's goods and are stacked higher and wider than ever before.
"Some 30% have hazardous materials in them. They're not just spilling Nikes," he said.
Though, to the geek in me, they invariably remind me of the black and whites on that old star trek episode.
Find where and when Star trek is playing in your area. (My personal prefs are old series, some next gen and DS9)
Eleven years ago a container of thousands of bathroom toys... rubber ducks, turtles, frogs, etc., fell off a cargo ship going from China to Seattle. Oceanographers have been tracking the swarm of toys, and learning about ocean currents. The flock of 29,000 toys has traveled around the Arctic, and they should soon be beaching themselves on New England shores.
Thousands of rubber ducks and other bath-time toys are due to become the unlikely allies of oceanographers 11 years after they were cast overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle.
The floating flock of 29,000 ducks and their companions - turtles, beavers and frogs - is heading for the New England coast, bleached and battered after a journey around the Arctic. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents.
The toys were cast adrift as the container ship carrying them encountered a storm in the Pacific Ocean. They floated along the Alaska coast and reached the Bering Strait by 1995, and Iceland five years later. By 2001 they had floated to the area in the north Atlantic where the Titanic sank.
"Some kept going, some turned and headed to Europe," says Curtis Ebbesmeyer of Seattle, a retired oceanographer who's been tracking their progress. "By now, hundreds should be dispersed along the New England coast."
Dr Ebbesmeyer has been able to track the toys that have washed ashore. He said they have been a useful tool in teaching oceanography, and have shed light on the way surface currents behave.
They are also a sobering reminder that about 10,000 containers fall off ships each year.
Dr Ebbesmeyer has also tracked 3 million pieces of Lego, 34,000 hockey gloves; and 50,000 Nike trainers that were spilled in 1999.
Fred Felleman, of the environmental group Ocean Advocates, said container ships carry 95% of the world's goods and are stacked higher and wider than ever before.
"Some 30% have hazardous materials in them. They're not just spilling Nikes," he said.
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Date: 2003-07-14 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-15 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-14 07:15 pm (UTC)"humanity should look to the cookie!"
but then, on feeling sick after eating a black and white cookie
"I think I;ve got David Duke and Farakahn down there!!!!"
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Date: 2003-07-15 08:26 am (UTC)Humanity should look to marble-cake!
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Date: 2003-07-14 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-15 08:25 am (UTC)a voice pipes up from the backwater
Date: 2003-07-15 07:16 am (UTC)Re: a voice pipes up from the backwater
Date: 2003-07-15 08:23 am (UTC)It's basically a large vanilla soft-cake sort of cookie, almost a muffin-top... with a slathering of chocolate and vanilla frosting/glaze on the top, totally even , half-and half.
very yummy.