h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0329odd-watch29-ON.html

A watch buried at the North Pole has turned up in the Faeroe Islands three years later, where it was found by an eleven-year-old boy.

I just thought it was interesting.

TRiG.

three years? isn't that worrying? What happened to glaciers tens of thousands of years old etc? I thought that ice stayed put a while - but three years??!!

The ice at the north pole is floating on the sea and is not very thick. It regularly breaks up. The 10,000-year-old glaciers are all on top of land, in Greenland, Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya.

Ah. Right. Thank you for setting my mind at ease, Gnomon

That's very interesting. Is our time running out environmentally speaking?

Well the writers of that article seem to think that this sort of thing has been going on for hundreds of years. But for other reasons, I would have to say, yes our time is running out.

When people are talking about the potential extinction of the polar bear something pretty serious and unusual must be going on up there.

Well, whatever's hapening up there, I think the media must dramatise everything just a tad.

I think the're now officially on the endangered list, although I haven't time to check that, polar bears I mean not the media.

Might be nice to put the media on the endangered list.

(Actually, as the content-finders take over the content-producers, some traditional media companies may well find themselves in difficulty. But that's another story.)

TRiG.

Yeah. Definately some media providers could do with a reduction in numbers.