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Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:32 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yet another species can send a thank-you note to BP. No, they're not humans, but what's that about every sperm being sacred?
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One by one, with a hand as steady as a surgeon's, Lorna Patrick removes eggs from a sea turtle's nest on a Florida beach.

"If it falls, you probably killed the hatchling that's developing inside," said Patrick, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Patrick admits she holds her breath each time she takes an egg out of the sand and places it in the foam cooler.

Sand is delicately placed in the cooler between and on top of each egg. Patrick uses the sand from the nest, which is located just a few inches from the beach's surface.

This process is part of an unprecedented sea turtle relocation program. Moving sea turtle nests days before the eggs are to hatch has never been done before.

It is also the first time that wildlife experts had to deal with oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

"Shy of letting the hatchlings swim in oil, it's our best alternative," said Sandy MacPherson, the national sea turtle coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

"We're confident if they go into oil they're going to die."

Patrick is working on the second sea turtle nest to be moved since the program started. Ninety percent of the United States' sea turtle population can be found on Florida's beaches, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It is estimated that 700 nests can be found in the Florida Panhandle, an area vulnerable to the oil spill.

"This is a huge relocation effort," said Thomas Strickland, assistant secretary of interior for fish and wildlife and parks. "As many as 50 to 100,000 eggs over the next six to eight weeks will be dug up."




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Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:45 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


"what's that about every sperm being sacred?"

Hello,




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Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:57 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


That's a longer version of what Frem posted, Anthony, but still funny, if irrelevant.


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Saturday, July 10, 2010 9:16 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

I think this bit and the Corporate/Banker pirate skit are the best two in the film.

Brit humor tends to be hit and miss for me. It's either very, very good or leaves me with a WTF face of confusion.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010 10:47 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


A lot of Americans have that problem. I adore it, but I know I'm not in the majority!


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