It would work until the polar bear population collapses in a couple generations due to inbreeding.
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And once they eat all the penguins and starve
St. Matthew Island with polar bears instead of reindeer.
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.
Just do it while they're hibernating 4head
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.
Then you have a penguin population crisis
Tbf we already have that due to glacier melt
Don't penguins already have to survive orcas?
Yeah, in the water. Giving them another apex predator on land won't make them happy, I'm sure.
It depends on the goal. For example it'd work if you want to render every penguin species endangered or worse.
Neal Stephenson book, Termination Shock.
You may find you struggle with step 1.
Zoos tend to struggle with Step 7 and they have far better conditions than a beat up converted freighter
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.
I've been trying to do step one for years. But my bastard relatives refuse to die, and also refuse to be rich. Selfish I call it.
And then my siblings also think they're entitled to some of the non-existent inheritance. So many selfish people in my family...
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.
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Etymologists crying and shaking right now at the thought of Antarctica (meaning: without bears) gaining the one animal it's not supposed to have
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.
And it's a hilarious coincidence that it resulted in the southern most point being Antarctica, as it just happens to be the only continent without bears.
Wdf how are we just learning this?! Can’t they teach it with the continent names??
I'm not saying this will definitely reverse the Earth's polarity and doom all life on earth, but do we really want to take that chance?!
Looks at earth
Well, it probably won't get much worse, and if it does it'll at least be interesting to see.
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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
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.
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