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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)."
There might finally be a road where I can drive as fast as I want and nobody will care...of course onn that road speeding is probably 30mph...:>
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
RrrrrrrOOOOOAAAAD TRIP!
Oh yeah.
Of course they won't. The signs will be in miles, since the US insist on maintaining their archaic measurement units instead of migrating to something more widely accepted, like metric.
As for the guy working at the station, he'll be fine, as long as they build a Tim Horton's beside it.
Yeah, New England could really use some greenhouse effect right now. I walked all the way to work yesterday and was convinced that I'd never be a father.
2 things...
First off, snowmobiles are among the HIGHEST vehicle poluters on the market, so an SUV would be an IMPROVEMENT.
Second, Antarctica is one of the very-useful and practical places where an SUV really would come in handy. Seriously, you expect someone to cross that area in a Camry? It's not likely they'd drive a Naviagator down there, and more likely they'd have a Dodge pickup truck or something.
I thought that was the plan to cryogenically freeze Walt until he could be revived by medics of the future...
Probably so the Death + X copyright limit just re-starts, innit?
Free as in mason.