“3/21/2008, 12:08pm EST”
30,000 specimens taken from Antarctic waters →
Isn’t it exciting when you find 30,000 specimens of creatures — some previously unknown to human animals and some just looking neat — and then steal them from their life-giving habitats for starboard photo-ops?
While Scientist X gets to publish an article in an obscure academic (oops, redundancy) journal, 30,000 non-scientist lives are interrupted and lost. Oh well, they’re just animals.
Moreover, given the overwhelming tendency to marry science with capitalism and technology, these kinds of surveys will surely lead to much greater exploitation of these waters and creatures in the future. All in all, a really wonderful endeavor towards discovery and perspective.
Never leave home without it.
