BBC: Why dying is forbidden in the Arctic

[mynah]

Originally Posted by iViolet

oh boy, polar bears and university newbies?
that sounds like a hazing waiting to happen.




from article:

wow!

while i found that clip of text to be rather morbid, i can't help but wonder if it's just as morbid for me to wonder if they can do anything with that bit of influenza, or any other viruses (or bacteria) that might be recovered from the tissue samples.


ok i admit it, maybe i -should- get out more.

That flu virus, lethal as it was then, is not very different from the everyday flu we get every year - but now our immune systems have adapted.

[sanctus]

This thread is quite old, but since I have just been there last February I thought I post you a photo of a polar bear I saw when I was there. Just the thing with polar bears is that if you can take a nice photo you actually have a problem :-) So you have to believe me, with binoculars the grey dot is a polar bear in liberty ...polar bear