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South Pole to Get Highway
tetrad writes "The New Scientist magazine reports that the US is building a road to the South Pole. The "highway" would cross the Ross Ice Shelf and then pass through the Transantarctic Mountains (map here). Convoys of tractors will be the only traffic on the road, bringing fuel and heavy equipment to the South Pole, as well as enabling the installation of a $250M fibre-optic communications cable (discussed previously)."
All I can say is "about time!" I've been waiting for this for years. I mean, now I can finally go to South Pole Disneyland.
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Yay! Now people can contribute to global warming and measure it at the same time!
All of this money that they're wasting could go to feed all of the starving programmers... ...oh wait, I figured it out now. This is where they're SENDING the starving programmers.
Hey, once we install that road, can we bring our SUVs down and pollute there too?
That's been, like, my dream since I first owned a vehicle that gets 16 gpm (gallons per mile)!
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
As a taxpayer in the philadelphia area, I need new roads here to get to work more efficiently. Or more accurately, get the other idiot drivers out of my way :-)
Why am I supposed to pay for a road that goes no-where in another country?
Traffic should be pretty light, and I bet I can speed with abandon, but I gotta believe that the tolls will be a bitch!
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Those penguins sure do chew up the bandwidth!
Can't we just give them segways with snow wheels instead?
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Now they'll be 0wning me at Quake, in between sexing penguins or whatever they do ;-)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Wonder if they'll have the signs on the highway that say "Last chance for gas - next station 1000km away"
And..how about the poor soul that has to actually WORK at that station!
hitchhiker: hey man, you going south to Florida?
trucker: No I'm goi... err. yeahhh.. hop in little buddy!
Trolling is a art,
This reminds me of a story in The Onion's 'Our Dumb Century' book. It was something along the lines of, "US military find last unspoilt place on Earth, blows it to hell."
There was a penguin driving his car down a desert road.
It was a really hot day, and his car is really a really old convertible. Up ahead he saw a small town.
All of a sudden, his hood burst open and oil shot into the air.
He pulled it into the first mechanic he saw in the town and cleaned himself off. The mechanic told him it could be a little while, so he waddled across the street to the ice-cream stand.
He got a dish of vanilla ice-cream, and since he had no arms, just flippers, he had to fling it towards his mouth. Well, after he finished his ice-cream, and was covered with vanilla ice-cream, he waddled across the street back to the mechanic.
The mechanic was looking at the engine and said, "Well, it looks like you blew a seal."
The penguin says, "I did NOT! It's just ice-cream!"
Worst. Sig. Ever.
When it snows and the road is blocked? Mr. Plow of course!
Ah Yes! Rush Limbaugh ... the noted scientist.
Now penguins can post to slashdot, but will we notice the difference?
--Stupid Sig Here--
A rest stop with a Stuckeys?
I can see it now... ``Say that sign up ahead says `Exit 1A McMurdo' This is our turn. Better get into the right lane.''
Or maybe ``Anyone got change for the tolls? Otherwise I have break a five.''
(Oh you can tell it's Friday, eh?)
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Fucking bullshit. You call this progress?
Somedays I'm ashamed to be human.
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
Yeah, and how long until the first Starbucks shows up on the transantarctic?
"Okay, I'll have an iced cappuccino, an iced tea and an iced iced mocha..."
:eof
So will they send out Zambonis to "resurface" the road?