Yes well, every bat counts in these days of white nose syndrome - 
hundreds of thousands of them have died in the last two years in the 
northeast and the disease is spreading south and west. The mortality 
rate in infected colonies is close to 100%. Since bats generally eat 
close to 1000 insects per hour, in nights during their feeding season 
(April thru October), we are not talking a trivial matter here. They 
singlehandedly keep corn borers and all sorts of army worms and other 
insects under control.

Poor lil guy.
~deb

Becker, Dan wrote:
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>> "The bat eventually became 'Interim Problem Report 119V-0080' 
>> after the ICE team finished their walkdown," the memo said. 
>> "Systems Engineering and Integration performed a debris 
>> analysis on him and ultimately a Launch Commit Criteria 
>> waiver to ICE-01 was written to accept the stowaway."
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> Somehow I want to believe that a very serious and highly trained professional engineer was smiling as he wrote that report indicating fulfillment of all protocols and forms relating a certainly grave endeavor....
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