NASA Offering Reward For Finding its 90 Lost Rubber Duckies

If you happen to spot a rubber duckie floating in the ocean, NASA would really appreciate it if you give them a call. They're missing about 90 of them and want them back.
The rubber duckies were tossed into a hole in Greenland's ice three months ago as a way to track how the polar icecap is melting. So far, however, they haven't seen signs of any of them. So now they're hoping that sailors, fisherman and cruise passengers will keep their eyes peeled for them. For the first one that's recovered, NASA is offering up a measly $100 reward. But hey, that's $100 more than you had before, you crusty old arctic fisherman. And it's for science.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/22/nasa-arctic-icecap-climate-change

for science people

wow, nasa could give bigger reward..

Hopefully these won't get mixed up with the 29,000 rubber ducks that were dumped into the oceon in 1992, and they have been floating around the globe ever since, http://www.rubaduck.com/news/rubber_duck_news-200302-duckies_around_the_world.htm



2007 July 15
According to an article in England’s “Daily Mail”, the first “Friendly Floatee” rubber duck has been found in the UK. As predicted by oceanographers, some of the 29,000 rubber ducks (and frogs, beavers and turtles) accidentally lost at sea in 1992 are now beginning to make landfall in Britain.

wtf 100$? cheap ass bastards

Well NASA really doesn't have that much money. They only get like half a percent of tax money. Which is still a lot of money, but not for shit like this.