You may find you struggle with step 1.
Also step 2. $4MM is not enough to run the kind of vessel needed to go to the poles for the length of time needed.
Antarctica is generally colder than the Arctic. They would almost certainly be stuck along the coastlines of Antarctica like the penguins are, since the interior average temperatures rival the coldest ones ever recorded in the Arctic. They should be fine there, but then that means they have a very limited distribution and that penguins and seals consequently are always forced to share an environment with the polar bears. Because they’re not used to the polar bears, their populations would likely be destroyed, leaving the polar bears to starve. Unlike in the Arctic, too, they would have nowhere to retreat if their food supply ran out. Outward is hundreds of kilometers of ocean, and inward is hundreds of kilometers of unsurvivable desert.
Etymologists crying and shaking right now at the thought of Antarctica (meaning: without bears) gaining the one animal it’s not supposed to have
I read that as entomologist for a second and was really confused
Figured it had something to do with fleas
This comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea the arctic is called that because it was the Greek for ‘of the bear’ because they used Ursa Major to guide them north. And the the arctic is the most northerly point.
Fucking wild. Mind blown.
Wdf how are we just learning this?! Can’t they teach it with the continent names??
I’d say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear
or a dog
Yup, and there’s a lot less risk of complete disruption to the normal food chain. One polar bear will eventually die, a dozen will probably take over.
4 million buy a freight boat
I work in supply chain but not a complete expert but the smallest cheapest working order freight ship I can find for sale is this one for $6MM, doesn’t include licensing, crew, insurance and the dreyage/accessorial on live polar bears is gonna cost you big
https://petronav.net/container-ships-for-sale/container-adilia-i-ex-e-r-auckland
Does it really need to be a big container ship?
Didn’t people transport stuff in smaller boats back in the day?
(You still make a valid point though)
Idk, polar bears are really heavy, and it takes a long time to get from one end of the planet to the other, so you want something secure to store the bears in. That means a bigger ship that can handle angry bears hurling themselves at the walls of their cage, because they will wake up during the journey, and they won’t be happy.
For some reason, just imagining this is fucking hilarious. OOP on a shipping container being mutinied by dozens of feral pissed of polar bears
they did specify freight! although getting The Cutty Sark back in working order is probably even more costly.
I think the penguins would learn to just swim away, and the bears would starve since they would need to expend a lot of effort for a small bird versus the calorie-dense seals they’re used to.
To be fair, some penguins aren’t exactly small
That is a king penguin, not even the tallest subspecies (emperors are taller), but what you’re looking at is an optical illusion because the penguin is much closer to the camera than the humans.
Damn, well I’m leaving it up anyways.
The Emperor protects
I’ve recently learned that bears absolutely love cocaine. I’m sure that’s relevant here somehow.
Thats why polar bears have white coats
I thought they had white coats because they take their methamphetamine production lab very seriously.
Pretty sure they are just rolling around in cocaine all day, hence why they are the most feared of the bears. Constantly off their head
They’re actually clear coats with hollow fur, which means they always have a way to consume said cocaine. They’ve basically evolved to be addicts.
I saw that documentary! That is boundary pushing science
This reminds me of a friend that once proposed that if we really wanted to mess with Europe we could release a few packs of coyotes
I was really hoping OP wanted to drop the polar bears on a tropical island. For science.
Neal Stephenson book, Termination Shock.
