[GreenKeys] Polar relays anyone?

[Jarratt RMA]

On 14 May 2015 at 19:31, Jones, Douglas W <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> From:
> On ‎14/‎05/‎2015 at 16:25, tony.podrasky wrote:
>
> > OK - who knows the record number of penguins eaten by a single polar
> bear?
>
> On May 14, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
> > In one sitting, or over a lifetime, or some other period?
>
> It is more critical to ask, in the wild or would accidental
> interactions in zoos matter.
>
> In the wild, the answer is obvious, zero, because one lives
> on the up-facing pole and the other lives on the down facing
> pole (the poles being magnetic, they do not fall off).  From
> other e-mail in this series, we already know that the way to
> distinguish different poles is by whether the contacts face
> up or down.
>
> In zoos?  Who knows what odd things might have happened.
>
>                 Doug Jones
>                 jones at cs.uiowa.edu
>
>
Doh! I know that, but my brain was not in gear!

To make up for it, here is my favourite cartoon about polar bears:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/85922717_3f98ab7c4e.jpg

Regards

Rob
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