Question about Polar Bears...

Eturnalshift · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:02 pm

Polar bears have black skin and I read somewhere their white appearance is due to their almost-transparent hairs reflecting sunlight... So are they black at night?

Azelma · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:19 pm

How much do Polar bears weigh?

Enough to break the ice.

Hi, I'm Scott.

Weena · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:20 pm

Wikipedia wrote:

Polar bear fur consists of a layer of dense underfur and an outer layer of guard hairs, which appear white to tan but are actually transparent.[39] The guard hair is 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) over most of the body.[44] Polar bears gradually moult from May to August,[45] but, unlike other Arctic mammals, they do not shed their coat for a darker shade to camouflage themselves in the summer conditions. The hollow guard hairs of a polar bear coat were once thought to act as fiber-optic tubes to conduct light to its black skin, where it could be absorbed; however, this theory was disproved by recent studies.

Laelia · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:32 pm

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around, does it make a sound? Colour isn't meaningful without light, so if you're referring to entirely dark conditions this isn't really a question that can be answered. Under real nighttime conditions the fur would scatter moonlight and starlight the same way it scatters sunlight, just like snow still scatters light at night. Polar bears are mostly invisible under infrared light though, so you couldn't see them with some kinds of night vision.

Usdk · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:16 pm

Polar bears are left handed.

Laelia · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:39 pm

Usdk wrote:

Polar bears are left handed.

Pretty sure bears don't have hands.

Usdk · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:04 pm

http://www.blurtit.com/q497068.html

left pawed sounds retarded.

Jushiro · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:12 pm

Azelma wrote:

How much do Polar bears weigh?

Enough to break the ice.

Quantify that for me.

Necrachilles · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:25 pm

Azelma wrote:

How much do Polar bears weigh?

Enough to break the ice.

Hi, I'm Scott.

Thank God someone did that. <3

Joklem · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:02 pm

Laelia wrote:

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around, does it make a sound? Colour isn't meaningful without light, so if you're referring to entirely dark conditions this isn't really a question that can be answered. Under real nighttime conditions the fur would scatter moonlight and starlight the same way it scatters sunlight, just like snow still scatters light at night. Polar bears are mostly invisible under infrared light though, so you couldn't see them with some kinds of night vision.

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no photons, everything is #000000

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:07 pm

I'm left-handed, does that me a polar bear?

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quadtard · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:15 pm

They are both black and white, they have black skin but project a white colored aura

Theyre like obama

Azelma · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:48 pm

quadtard wrote:

They are both black and white, they have black skin but project a white colored aura

Theyre like obama

How long did it take you to come up with that one?

quadtard · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:33 pm

upon reading the title

Weena · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:08 pm

Everybody is born left handed. You only become right handed when you commit your first sin.

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