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Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth
LMCBoy writes "Dome A is the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, and it has never been reached by humans. It is thought to be the coldest place on earth, and is certainly among the most remote. Yesterday, a team of Chinese explorers set out from Fremantle, Australia to reach Dome A and set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years. The team is expected to arrive at Dome A in early 2005."
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Then why are they going to monitor the -90C?
So what happens when the temperature (down to -90C) goes below the sublimation temperature of CO2 (-76C, if I recall correctly)? Does it just freeze out of the air? I'm sure these guys will be heating (and probably humidifying) their air supply anyway, but do they need to add CO2 to keep the breathing reflexes working right?
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to set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years
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Day 1: Cold
Day 2: Cold
Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth
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It's good to see the spirit of exploration is not dead. I am slightly puzzled by the story though. Why, if Australians are training the Chinese expeditioners, are they doing it in Fremantle?
That really doesn't seem a close match for the climatic conditions in the Antarctica. It may be far too easy compared to the high altitudes they are facing.
It would also be interesting to learn what challenges are involved in building those automated weather recording stations. How *do* they keep it running unattended for 20 years with batteries?
when reading this headline..
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Why would they name a low point a dome? It would make sense that the highest point would be the coldest.
My liquid nitrogen cooled case is the coldest place on earth!
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You business takes you to every continent... even Antartica? What do you import/export to/from there?
No, it's not.
Next question?
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PENGUINS.
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I think you meant:
"It was an idiot's joke"
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I mean, really. Look at all the things China is doing vis-a-vis science, technology, exploration, etc. They're like the Soviet Union of the 50's, involved in everything from space exploration to breaking records, to generally advancing its culture and playing a greater role in the world. Just a thought - don't grill me about their deficiencies.
A blog like any other.
China seem to be determined to push boundaries at the moment. Putting a man in orbit is no mean feat. Yes the US did it along time ago, but I don't see them doing it at all at the moment due to the shuttle grounding. Now pushing for the still unexplored regions of the world. I wonder if they have any deep sea missions planned for some time in the next few years. China has definitely decided that they have somethign to prove. The impressive part is that they aren't doing a bad job of proving it.
And this really ought to mildly concern people in the US. Yes the US already has done most of these things or something similar (they have a couple of Antarctic bases, one at the pole I believe). But that's the key point. The US has done such things, but doesn't seem to be expending quite the effort they use to on pushing boundaries of exploration and science. Increasingly it seems to be Chinese and Indians with the real fire to try and push ahead. And all the better I say. The US seemed to slacken off and grow complacent, so its about time there was some serious competition again.
Go China.
(Hopefully they can break new ground sorting out their political issues too)
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Let me guess: red state, right?
The Chinese aren't going there as a big PR exercise. If you haven't noticed, the Chinese aren't big on grand, meaningless showboating: they do what they do because it furthers their long-term objectives, not because it wins them short-term positive press coverage.
The long-term thinking and objectives behind this sort of expedition is space exploration. If the Chinese can successfully establish a base in one of the least hospitable places on the planet, and overcome the physical, logistical, pyschological and other hurdles that such an endeavour involves, then they will have gained valuable experience and climed another rung up the ladder towards the eventual establishment of a populated lunar or Martian base.
They aren't going there for the scenery, they're going there to take some hard knocks and learn from them.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
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To an Australian living in Sydney, Fremantle is the coldest place on earth!
It is thought to be the coldest place on earth
Apparently those Chinese researchers have never visited Edmonton in January.
You'll arrive before longhorn ships...
Couldn't they just air-drop the monitoring equipment? Parachutes, the whole nine yards. Almost like they do/did with the Mars rovers.
What happened to the Mount Baigong expedition some years ago? Nothing was heard from them.
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No, I think that he's the member that they left at Fremantle. Poor guy, the freezing breezes even in summer must be killing him.
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What, this far into the thread and you weren't expecting cracks about Jersey?
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The coldest spot on earth is in a laboratory in Finland:
http://boojum.hut.fi/Low-Temp-Record.html
Dome A is the coldest naturally occuring spot.
Not trolling, I'm Chinese. Usually the US is fanatical about data-gathering. Thought hottest/coldest places on earth were visited and studied long ago.
Guess despite for all our telecommunications, earth's still pretty damn big.
This is the same China that's been saber rattling in Asia the past couple of weeks? The one that's been sending submarines into Japanese waters? The one that's been warning Japan of "dire consequences" if Japan does not stop threatening China (umm.. And I thought the North Koreans were paranoid)?
Despite whatever they may do down there in Antarctica, their actions in the geopolitical sphere where things actually matter are not so friendly and come very close to antagonizing and aggravating an already tepid friendship with it and its neighbors. China is a bully and has been doing a little more bullying lately as the US thins its troops out in order to send more people to Iraq to quell the violence there.
Obviously we can't blame the actions of their government on these scientists, but as a nation of peace-loving citizens, it does not make sense that the Australian government would be expending money and energy to help the Chinese in their scientific advance.
That's A LOT of BS lies you told! Amazing!
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An exam question on Momentum, Heat and Mass transfer: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Justify your argument.
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant.
One student however wrote the following:
First, we must postulate that if souls exist they must have mass. If they do then a mole of soles can have mass. So at what rate are souls entering Hell and at what rate are they leaving?
Making the assumptions that once in Hell a soul cannot leave. Therefore no souls are leaving.
To determine how many are entering we must look at the different religions.
Some religions state that if you are not a member of their religion you will go to Hell.
Because there is more than one religion that states this and no one is a member of one of more religion we can postulate that all people, and therefore all souls, go to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are we can assume that the number of souls in Hell are increasing exponentially.
Now look at the rate of change of volume in hell.
Boyle's law states that in order for the temperature and pressure to say the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.
Case 1: If Hell is expanding at a rate slower than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell lets loose.
Case 2: If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature ad pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate by Theresa Banyan during my first year " it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you" and taking into account I have not had sexual relations with her, Case 2 cannot be correct.
Thus Hell is exothermic- QED!
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent. Anyhow, I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
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Just to get it out of the way, I'm an American businessman too, that lives and works mainly in Tokyo Japan. I too travel all around the world, but so far business hasn't taken me to Antarctica yet. (Every continent, eh?) That said...
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so.
Reminds me of NYC.
And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over.
Yep, bingo, NYC! (Well, it's more vomit and urine, and less dog shit...)
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Chill out, it's a cultural thing. If you're not used to it, the spitting can gross you out, but there are plenty of other things that we do that would gross out alot of other people. For example, not using a specialized tongue cleaner every day sorta grosses out the Indians. Using PAPER to wipe our asses is considered incredibly unhygenic (and in a sense it is) as far as most people in the middle east and asia are concerned. On the other hand, the thought of wiping our asses with water, USING OUR HANDS, grosses us out equally.
It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
If that's what you have to say about Chinese, you don't want to know what most people think of Yankee, Aussie and Kiwi English.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
Americans stink too. It's not that rare that you'll run into a white american manager that apparently has never heard of deoderant. Soggy, dark sweat stains under their pits. I know many Chinese, and just like us Americans, there are dirty ones and clean ones, and nationality seems to have little to do with it. That said, Europeans have a much higher rate of having really bad BO, than Asians. Even with the deoderant, the Japanese seem to be able to pick up this scent, and will gag and puke behind your back. Again, this is all relative.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Okay, I have to agree with this. There are a lot of back-stabbing double-standard corrupt "high" officials in China. This certainly has room for improvement. However, it's not that unusual in developing countries. Ever been to Indonesia?
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
Ever been to Rome?
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
As far as the apathy, I wouldn't count out our own country. I guess we don't have people smuggling themselves accross the border to Canada though. Yet.
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"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I'm no aviator, so I don't know why the team has to slog it there on foot. Why can't they simply drop in with a helicopter? I'm sure there's a simple reason I'm overlooking.
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Why do you have a problem with those two things belonging to one person?
oh man I bet you could overclock like crazy down there!
or else!
Apparently, they're actually going to have a satellite transmitted webcam of their journey, at least so claims this Yahoo article.
Read the article, the original weather station is still running after 20 years, and will continue until its battery runs out. What battery works in -70 degrees celcius and lasts for 20 years? And where can I buy one?
There's a Free Trade Agreement in the pipeline.
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It appears that it takes liquid CO2 to make dry ice.
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From a google search.
Basically, dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 is usually found as a gas -- it's what we exhale. To make dry ice, CO2 is compressed, and it liquefies at a pressure of approximately 870 pounds per square inch. The dry ice press then reduces the pressure, and part of the liquid CO2 sublimates (meaning it turns from a solid into a gas). The remaining liquid freezes into flakes that are compacted into solid blocks. The resulting dry ice is denser, heavier, and colder than ice made from water.
Here is a link to a machine that can make a block of dry ice in 60 seconds with just a liquid CO2 cylinder, and it costs less than 600 USD.
http://www.amer-rest-equip.com/usare_polfo_dry_ic
Cold? Yep, still cold.
Cold? Yep, still cold.
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imagine a non polar coordinate system. then you will get it :)
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They are going there in Early 2005, and that peak summer in antartica. So temparatures will not be dropping below -50C. :)
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Do they want to build their beowolf cluster there for better cooling?
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So, they call it Dome A now, eh? Well, I guess that is a more comforting name than the Mountains of Madness.
I do not think we will see them again...
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I am going to have Chinese in my freezer!
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The stare my girlfriend gave me when I realise I didn't take my shoes off and almost stepped on the new rugs actually caused apartments 3 floors up to have burst pipes.
Now that is cold.
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Heh, atleast China is not country full of ultra religious bushlims and muslims. It's more confy to deal with good old pover hungry nations.
What really scares me is this big nuke owning contry whose rulers are preparing for second coming of Jesus.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Sure they are replication feats that we have already achieved, but its new to them. A 'Big deal, been there done that' attitude isn't the way to view this. That they are doing things like this shows that they are catching up. When a communist country that has 1/5 of the entire planets population decides it wants to be a superpower, you should pay attention.
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$10 says they actually find the lost valley of the dinosaurs.
or maybe just frostbite
I could have put such a monitoring device in my mother-in-law's bed in a few minutes!
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(YES, the original China troll is at least 3-4 years old here on good ole Slashdot - and it gets people every time.)
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learn from yesterday, plan for tomorrow, party tonight
or one out of three ain't bad
if you happen to live in Taiwan.
Germany also doesn't deny their warcrimes unlike japan.
The chinese have plenty of reason to threathen japan. If they send a nuke or two over then it is just delayed justice and really no different then America invading Iraq.
No if you want to blame china for anything do it for their actions in Tibet. That is nasty enough for anyone.
If you are really serious about peace-loving nations not working together with more aggressive nations then america would be in total isolation right now. China is just saber rattling. Making sure that past war criminals do not get the idea they could do it again.
For the near future China has a booming economy that could only be hurt by going to war. They like being the maker of everything sold in the entire world. Why risk it all with a war?
It is roughly the same reason you hear nothing about Tibet. The western powers that be like having everything made cheap in China so China can go ahead with its own crimes as long as it doesn't do it accross its borders.
Money is a powerfull motivator for peace but peace can only happen when you remind people that they will loose if they are not peacefull.
America uses its fleets and the occasional invasion. China hold big parades and sends some parts of its fleet on excersises.
So far it seems that the biggest threat to world peace is firmly in the west.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
On another note, does anyone know the approximate population of Antartica? Just curious how many people are camping out at those research stations.
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Helicopters suck donkeyballs in thin air. They also guzzle fuel like their is no tomorrow. Check docu's on the artic. Ever seen a chopper in it?
Basically the area to be travelled in is to high, to far and to cold for helicopters to operate in.
However walking there is a proven techinique. It has worked for decades. Why develop a 1 use aircraft when you can simple hire some idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrave men to haul your stuff there?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
there was even a documentary about their findings. Here's a clip from the article and link for more info.
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An expedition of archaeologists on Earth discover an Aztec temple hidden under the Antarctic circle, housing a host of Alien creatures. A group of five coming-of-age Predators have also come to the temple, as it has long been a training ground for their race. From there on, it's Aliens vs. Predators, with the humans caught in the middle.
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to just fly over and drop in a remote weather monitoring package?
The article states the primary objective is weather monitoring. I'd think think there would be easier methods of obtaining that data. That's not to say it isn't worth it. I would think the bigger benefit is the technology to get humans there.
So if Dome A has a wierd microclimate, that strikes me as a particularly bad place for a weather station. Or am I missing something?
They obviously haven't been in our server room.
A witch's tit, and a brass monkey's balls.
Let's see:
"aer burries" - the aer could be a simple transposition on the keyboard, but to get "buRRies" from "buried" is a bit of a stretch.
The repeated misspelling of "paNNels" is also questionable.
Given that a design engineer must be able to communicate, and thus to write, and thus to spell, I find this post questionable. The basic facts are not necessarily wrong, but the spelling is iffy at best.
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"Dome A is the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, and it has never been reached by humans. It is thought to be the coldest place on earth, and is certainly among the most remote."
"Sir, we have successfully made to the Antarctic Plateau. It is indeed the coldest place on Earth, just as we thought, but unfortunately according to my map, it is not among the most remote ones. The most remote place on Earth seems to be the Arctic Ocean."
Sincerely,
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Hummm. I thought Main and Portage in Winnnipeg, Canada was the coldest place on Earth. I was just one block from Main and Portage last year when the temperature dropped to -48. Brrr that is cold when you walk 10 blocks with no hat, and a light winter jacket and dockers pants. On the radio they claimed that was the coldest place on Earth that day. So why travel that far when you can get record cold temperature near home.
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something to finely warm my bosses heart
to set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years
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Day 1: Cold
Day 2: Cold
I suppose they won't bother with a big heatsink on the CPU then
I just skimmed the comments rated 3+ and saw no mention of H. P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness". It's a tale of an expedition to the Antarctic which finds a range of very high, jagged mountains. The adventurers find not only a city clinging to the peaks of these mountains but also the bodies of the former inhabitants. Unspeakable horrors are uncovered and...well, read the damn book.
Any mention of an expedition to a previously unexplored region of Antarctica should bring up a subsequent mention of this novel. While Lovecraft's style is, undoubtedly, thick and verbose, his imagination was really quite remarkable. I found AtMoM to be a fantastic tale that actually stands up to a second reading.
You can probably find a copy online, but I am not sure about whether it's actually in the public domain or not. I think some of this writings genuinely are in the public domain, but others aren't, so YMMV. Regardless, the books are generally cheap. You can even get an annotated version of this story, which tries to explain the background and ties it to other stories in Lovecraft's works.
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Hmm, what are all these strange five-sided fossils...? ;-)
I doubt they want to come to America & explore my bedroom.......
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I'm sure it won't be long till the Coors Brewing Co. creats up a commercial touting that there beer is brew on Dome A so it will be "the coldest tasting beer on earth."
I hope that when they get there, they find no ancient temples just oozing with evil.
why, on god's green earth, would anyone want to do this?
A slight correction to the original post: Dome A is not the highest point on the Antarctic continent. The highest point is Vinson Massif at 4,897 meters. Vinson Massif has already been climbed by humans.
I bet they could do some initial market research to check the feasability.
Initial research would cost far less than just one super-dooper mega-parka. Too bad the Chinese don't understand good ol' American capitalism.Remember the doomed Lake expedition!
"I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain."
"The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws. There were truncated cones, sometimes terraced or fluted, surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbously enlarged and often capped with tiers of thinnish scalloped disks; and strange beetling, table-like constructions suggesting piles of multitudinous rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed stars with each one overlapping the one beneath. There were composite cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting cylinders or cubes or flatter truncated cones and pyramids, and occasional needle-like spires in curious clusters of five. All of these febrile structures seemed knit together by tubular bridges crossing from one to the other at various dizzy heights, and the implied scale of the whole was terrifying and oppressive in its sheer gigantism. The general type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed and drawn by the arctic whaler Scoresby in 1820, but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent."
Heed H.P. Lovecraft's warning!
I guess some of you are ashamed of being in "red states". A little "buyer's remorse", perhaps?
You have some serious soul-searching to do out there in the south and the heartland. You morons legitimized fear and hate in the election, and now all forward-thinkers have to reap the garbage you closed-minded simpletons have sown.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear.
This was a great troll, but this bit was my favorite; the 1850's "great white hunter" style was dead-on.
What if its a lovely day with balmy breeze rocking the pams trees to and fro?
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It's amazing the lengths people will go to show that the USA can or has been beaten. Even if the USA won, they'll concoct a reasoning that shows that they really lost.
I think there's an irrational hatred of the USA in general which causes people to want the US to fail. I don't waste my time bashing other countries highlighting all their failures, I want them to succeed. But I also want things to be kept in perspective and not sensationalized or overlooked. Saying that a country "can" do something that another country already has done is cheap talk. Let's keep it real- until they have, they haven't.
Your reasoning was pretty good, but it still was a stretch... it seemed like you were really reaching for something. Neither the USA, Russia, or China are going to build a "castle" on the Moon or Mars and defend it against exploration by another country. Space exploration is usually an area where countries help each other out even if they're enemies in another regard.
It is important to push emotions aside and keep things in perspective. Even if you don't like someone you should still be objective. Spinning the truth to make them sound like a failure only uncovers your bias against them.
>> Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
;-)
> Ever been to Rome?
Yeah sure, dude you're talking about Naples. Italians being colourful people, they like to have decorative lights in Rome.
Of course there are unspeakable horrors. This is Lovecraft. The real question is always are they tentacled or untentacled horrors. As I recall, in AtMoM we are dealing with untentacled horrors.
Hey don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Psht! This was like, so yesterday. They already did this when the second ice age came, and we all had to move to Mexico... Or maybe I'm thinking of a movie...
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I found myself asking some similar questions to my wife, who proposed the (whimsical) notion of moving to Iceland.
3. Do you like trees, or enjoy the fact that there is vegetation within sight of your front door?
(_) Yes (_) No (_) Do B-Trees count?
4. Do you enjoy going outside for leisure?
(_) Yes (_) No (_) What is 'outiside'?
5. Do you find any of the following terms and phrases exciting: total isolation, arctic desert, extremophile, snowblind, and ozone hole?
(_) Yes (_) No
6. How do you feel about having sunlight for only half the year, 20-24 hours a day?
(_) Hate it (_) Love it (_) What is 'sunlight'?
7. What career would you like to persue on the artic circle (check all that apply)?
(_) Scientist
Given that the u in buried and the a in panel are short vowels, it makes sense to double the next consonant if you're not very good at remembering spelling. Consider planed vs. planned, or mate vs. matte, or bated vs. batted.
Also, S and D are close on the keyboard.
Hands in my pocket
A team of our researchers spent eighteen months in Antarctica living like penguins, and subsequently dying like penguins - only quicker - proving that the penguin is a clever little bastard in his own environment.
So they are going to place this device in a pristine enviornment, previously untouched by man, and leave it there for the ages. Not to mention all the junk they will leave behind during their trek.
Who is going to pick up the trash?
**I** have it on good authority that they're pushing for something old...the Great Old Ones, in fact!
They're going to Leng, to confer with the dread star-headed elder things, in the Cyclopean ruins of their cities. The heck with Mars ... we'll all be sucked headless when they loose the shoggoths on us - and not the way you lonely bastards think! Ahhhhhhh!
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
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Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth
They're going to visit Courtney Love's vagina? Big deal, plenty of men have been THERE before.
Where can i sign up?
This seams a lot more useful than my current endevor!.
Who's with me?
about shrinkage -- major skrinkage!
Coldest place on earth? They'll have to get past the Secret Service first... Dick Cheney's heart isn't exactly accessible you know.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
LOL - THAT WAS A TROLL
you fucking idiot!
Think about all the time you wasted with your stupid ass response
...ends up with a China-bashing rant?
Title: "Americans find a way to cure cancer"
--> "Americans are dirty, dirty people, arrogant bastards...they don't respect the poor and only care to dominate the world. This curing cancer could be their latest diabolical plot to create biological weapons!"
Stick to the f'en topic morons.
A staggering and brilliant post
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
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November 17, 2104.
(Female Reporter speaks) Today there have been found the remains of a human settlement about a hundred years old, on the coldest spot of the earth, in an area that historians call "Antarctica". How the people in there managed to survive is a mystery. Is this another archaeological find, like the lost city of Atlantis?
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We've now found more about this human settlement. Apparently there was a group who wanted to break some world record.
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That's right, Chris. I guess humans keep trying to do the impossible, for reasons we can't understand.
For martian news, this is Ken Brockman.
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We come from the planet Uranus;
the methane is really quite heinous.
It's not quite like hell,
you'll get used to the smell,
but New Jersey keeps trying to claim us.
Later chinese guys, and good luck.
When Hell thaws -- this requires, of course, that it freezes over first.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Enough already with this US bashing!
If Chin.... umh, err.... ok, I see. My bad, wrong country. :-)
we've set up probes on other palnets yet we still have not been everywhere on this planet.
Get your torrents...
The coldest spot on earth was Portage and Main in Winnipeg... hmmm
Cheezit! We're boned! - famous 31st Century bending unit
I work for a company that produces the superconducting magnets for MRI systems. -269.15 C is a common temperature inside the helium vessel. If the atmosphere (mostly N2, but some other stuff) gets into the vessel and freezes (contaminating it), then we might warm it up (with helium gas) to -90C to thaw and blow that other junk out.
I guess it would have been better to say "Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Natural Spot on Earth"
Note: Because of the low temperatures, we use Kelvin for temperatures at work. I've converted these to Celsius for your convenience.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen
I just hope they're not down there fucking up our gravity...
The coldest place on earth (actually, the known universe) is Wieman's lab at Colorado. They measure temperatures in nanokelvin. :-P