March 14, 2011
"Probably at first afraid. One thing is a bathtub. Another, the ocean. But they finally had to take her taste, as some are still circling the globe 19 years later.. " Quote for an article (1) that describes the release of a cargo ship sailing from Hong Kong to Washington in January 1992, when at sea he was surprised by a big storm by throwing water over thousands of plastic tub toys among them cites the disappearance and subsequent start to drift, rubber ducks, turtles, frogs and other family.
At this point you will wonder what the speed will have to do with bacon. Much, the thousands of miles traveled this journey that flotilla of rubber toys, they has served scientists as the oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmesmeyer to monitor the path of huge currents that run our planet as a giant zippers transporting heat from the surplus areas to deficit areas (see article on energy balance http://serdioclima.blogspot.com/2010/06/ -energetic balance-of-the-earth-efecto.html ) . Currents that inevitably crept into our faunita multicolor, deposited here and there, not randomly, but in certain coastal areas (See photo 1. Crossing toys from 1992-2007).  |
| Photo 1: Journey of the ducklings. |
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