This just in: Scientists squash a little girl’s dreams
A six-year-old girl has caused a conundrum of global proportions after her attempts to send a message in a bottle to Norway ended up in New Zealand.
While on holiday with her grandparents on the north-east coast of Scotland, Keely Reid tossed a plastic water bottle into the Moray Firth in the expectant hope that the tide might carry it as far as the shores of Scandinavia.
However the girl and her family have been surprised to discover the bottle ended up travelling more than 20,000 miles in 47 days to be washed up on the beach of Whangamata on the north island of New Zealand.
I can see where the study of ocean currents is important, but the article makes it sound like the scientists were debating a six year old. While this would be amazing if true, an average speed of 18 miles per hour doesn’t seem that impossible. It seems like it would be easy enough to test too… throw some more trash in the ocean.
