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The Gulf's Great Turtle Relocation Project
An anonymous reader writes "All along the Gulf Coast's beaches it's turtle-hatching season. Conservationists knew the poor hatchlings wouldn't have a chance if they swam out into the oily waters of the Gulf, so they came up with an incredibly ambitious plan: they would dig up 70,000 turtle eggs, carefully raise them in a climate-controlled hanger at the Kennedy Space Center, and release the hatchlings into the clean Atlantic waters off Florida's east coast. Now that project is well underway, and Discover Magazine has pictures of the first batch of hatchlings crawling toward the welcoming waves. But there's a chance all this do-gooding won't do any good. New Scientist found experts who argue that releasing them into the Atlantic rather than into the Gulf will screw up the turtles' navigation systems, which will prevent them from following their normal migratory routes."
And while we're at it, let's blame that bitch Mother Nature for wiping out all the Raptors ?
Just when you think you've heard the dumbest thing possible, someone comes along and breaks the record. Congratulations parent for making my day.
No. Complaining about a solution that may not work over one that definitely won't because the one that is a "maybe" is unknown is stupid egghead bullshit.
There's a reason you fucking nerds never get laid. Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and deal with the fat chick.
The criticism of "what will it do to migratory patterns" is hopelessly detail oriented in a big picture that should be very obvious.
Out of 70k turtle babies, only a handful of them will survive in non-oil soaked condition in the first place.
The ecologists do not have legit concerns. They are simply doing what dumb narrow minded over specialized dorks do and should in this case, be ignored.