June 30, 2009: Whatzat?

From the sky, it looks as though it is a river clogged with pollution or perhaps a field of exotic flowers.
It's not until you get closer that the true nature of this living carpet is revealed.

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Can you imagine the smell from all those projectile pooping fish eaters? :turd::headbag:

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that's amazing!

what is that some sort of penguin mecca? that is a lot of animals.

I had no idea they had lime green penguins!

SPUCK;578659 wrote:

I had no idea they had lime green penguins!

Oh yeah! But don't eat them, they're not ripe yet.

They're unemployed penguins, waiting for a stimulus payment.

I see the face of Jesus and some apostles in this. These penguins should put themselves on ebay.

"Peng-a-wins is practically chickens"

(anyone remember that line?)

They should train themselves to form the shape of words or corporate logos, and make a few bucks advertising.

Before the image opened and Bruce mentioned the smell, I was sure it was going to be this great pic from NASA's Earth Observatory earlier this month (another IOTD):
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38868&src=eoa-iotd

Frenger;578655 wrote:

what is that some sort of penguin mecca? that is a lot of animals.

When I got to the third pic down, I was imagining that it really was was the annual rush of pilgrims at Mecca!

My little 2 1/2 year old son is into Happy Feet the movie at the moment. I'll have to show him that this really does happen in real life and not just on TV. He loves the songs and dances on Happy Feet. It's such a cute movie.

WOW!

That's three months after the March of the penguins.

Sheldonrs;578679 wrote:

"Peng-a-wins is practically chickens"

(anyone remember that line?)

"And I love chicken!"

"Hey, playboy!"

"Hoboken!?? Oooohhh! I'm *dyin'* again!"

footfootfoot;578848 wrote:

That's three months after the March of the penguins.

:smack:

Leah;578841 wrote:

My little 2 1/2 year old son is into Happy Feet the movie at the moment. I'll have to show him that this really does happen in real life and not just on TV. He loves the songs and dances on Happy Feet. It's such a cute movie.

Ummmmmm. Don't persuade him that Happy Feet is all that realistic...

Eggs don't hatch, parents die, chicks die, any colony that crowded is Mother Nature at her harshest...

And don't tell him the truth about March of the Penguins either - the Emperor Penguin nursery is in one of the most inhospitable places in the world and men were brought to the brink of death just trying to document it. (A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter)

I can't remember - am I actually allowed within 100 yards of children?

xoxoxoBruce;578880 wrote:

:smack:

:D

My penguin died in 9-11, you insensitive bastards.

Oh, and penguins WILL NOT fly from a treadmill.

They will if there is a shark after them.

Or if you shoot them out of a cannon.

.. but then the cannon has to be on the treadmill. Tricky, that.

most cannons have wheels though, so I think it could work. You'd just have to be careful the cannon didn't take off...

Oh yeah penguins can fly! Just watch this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJaMtBKnN-I

We're going to need plenty of potatoes and carrots.