To be accurate, polar bears have black skin and only have white fur.
Knowing that everything south of the equator is opposite, maybe penguins
have white skin and black feathers. And as Doug says, they slide on their
belly covering the black feathers with white snow! You are on to something
Doug, I'd bet Sir Richard Attenborough never knew this! This would also
explain the poor confused zebra which resides close to the equator.

Lloyd Duso
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Diamond-MT
(814) 535-3505
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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Douglas Pauls <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I think the FEQAB was drunk yet again and demonstrated its lack of critical
> thinking.  Polar bears are white all over because they roll in the snow.
> Penguins are white on the belly because they slide over the snow.  Anyone
> who watches the nature channel knows that.  And since icebergs carry
> Polarium out from the polar regions, Polarium is found all over, but the
> near infinite dilution makes it hard to detect.  And I checked your phone.
> You need your eyes re-lasered - you dialed the number for the Pachyderm
> experts, not the Penquin experts.  Elephant experts don't know jack about
> penguins, so of course they were confused.  So there.
>
>
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:02 AM, David Hillman <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Here is the Element Quiz Question:
> >
> > The Question:
> > This element has very few commercial uses since it is very expensive to
> > produce. There is a higher concentration of this element at the North
> Pole
> > than the South Pole due to convective mixing. The liquid state of this
> > element has been used to construct electromagnetic calorimeters. This
> > element is also the basis for a laser in nuclear fusion energy research.
> > Which
> > element is being described?
> >
> > The Answer:
> > The element is Krypton (Kr)! Krypton is produced by fractional
> distillation
> > of air. The electromagnetic calorimeter of the NA48 experiment at CERN
> > contained about 27 tonnes of liquid krypton. Krypton fluoride lasers are
> > used in nuclear fusion energy research. At one time, the International
> > Conference on Weights and Measures defined the meter as 1,650,763.73
> > wavelengths of light emitted by the krypton-86 isotope.
> >
> >
> > The winner of the quiz is Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM, and will get the
> > services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.
> >
> > FEQAB reviewed Doug's submission of Polarium as the quiz answer but again
> > ruled his response to be incorrect. While Polarium may only be found in
> the
> > polar regions, as stated by Doug, the element clues show that the correct
> > response was an element that is found all over the planet. FEQAB also
> > questioned how polar bears were completely bleached white yet penguins
> were
> > only selectively beached white. Inquires to the experts at the San Diego
> > Zoo were equally confused on that statement. Better luck next time Doug.
> >
> >
> > So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
> >
> > Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> > Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> > Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> > Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> > Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> > Week 3 John Burke
> > Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> > Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
> > Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> > Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> > Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> > Week 8 Leland Woodall
> > Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> > Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> > Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> > Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> > Week 13 No Quiz,
> > Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> > Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> > Week 16 John Maxwell
> > Week 17 Leland Woodall
> > Week 18 Leland Woodall
> >
> > Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> > - Love those firewalls. The boys will help review some environmental
> > testing for explosive atmosphere, Sand & Dust, Humidity and Salt Fog at a
> > local supplier. When they get bored with that they can help patch the
> roof
> > over my head that might have a developed a leak during the winter. After
> > that they can relax and go fishing in the bay or ocean near my house.
> >
> > Week 20 Robert Kondner
> > - assisted with ????
> >
> > Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> > - Up here at ClearMotion, I've got a board to design... but our recruiter
> > wants us looking through resumes instead. I think the boys can do that
> for
> > a while, and when they're done with that, they can start cutting out
> molds
> > for my upcoming cedar strip canoe.
> >
> > Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
> > - After feeding them all weekend, I put the boys to work soldering the
> > battery leads (Pb-Free, of course) onto ShortSniffer boards.  They were
> so
> > efficient with those little fingers twisting the wire ends, they got the
> > next 6-months production done in 4.5 hours!  I gave our minimum wage
> > technician a pink slip, telling her to re-apply in September.
> >
> > They had big smiles on their faces as I put them on a plane to Disney
> > World, giving them each 3 all-day passes (after warning them to stay away
> > from Snow White).  They should be well rested for the next Element Quiz
> > winner.
> >
> > Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
> > - assisted with ????
> >
> >
> > I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> >
> > Dave Hillman
> > Rockwell Collins
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
>