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Penguin Poop Seen From Space
Scientists have found ten new emperor penguin colonies by spotting their skid marks on the Antarctic ice from satellite images (video on page). The ice around the penguins gets very dirty because they congregate in a small area in very large colonies for months. Peter Fretwell, Mapping Expert, British Antarctic Survey says, "What we find is that we can see the guano (excrement) from space. They stay in the same space in very large colonies for eight months of the year and the ice around them gets very dirty, and it's that that we can see on the satellite images."
...to automatically purge their logs.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Object within the resolution limit of space camera is observed! Gasp!
I modded-up the article as "fresh."
Not sure if that helps.
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And somehow, we're the ones blamed for polluting the planet.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
I think there's an emperor penguin colony in my underpants!
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
Sorry to be pedantic, but guano comes out of a cloaca, which is kinda like a combined urine/feces vent. Humans, and most placentals, have separate urine and feces vents.
We usually equate urine with water and salt regulation, but it's also our way of getting rid of nitrogenous waste (ammonia mostly), which we expel as urea. (Incidentally, the word 'urea' derives from 'urine,' and not vice-versa.) Since birds don't urinate, they convert their nitrogenous wastes into uric acid, which is what stains rocks and statues white. So, especially given the point of this article, the guano/feces precision is relevant.
...the bullshit in Washington D.C. must be visible from Mars.