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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."
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
Let me know when they find my girlfriend's heart.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
when reading this headline..
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My liquid nitrogen cooled case is the coldest place on earth!
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No, it's not.
Next question?
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Let me guess: red state, right?
"the temperature plummets to around minus 90 degrees Celsius"... of course, we don't know how that measurement was made...
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To an Australian living in Sydney, Fremantle is the coldest place on earth!
if they can survive 3 weeks in Jersey they can take anything else the Universe can dish out.
What, this far into the thread and you weren't expecting cracks about Jersey?
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Silly, parachutes don't work when they're upside down!
Because then it would slide down the mountain.
What we need to do is get there first, establish a secret base there and be there when they show up. Maybe offer em a cup of hot chocolate or something.
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Table-ized A.I.
I thought it would be Superman's Fortress of Solitude...
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
That's okay. If China becomes too much like the Soviet Union, just close down all our WalMarts and Toys-R-Us's and their economy would tank like a lead iceberg.
Table-ized A.I.
oh man I bet you could overclock like crazy down there!
or else!
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 aren't big on big on grand, meaningless showboating, huh?
(Yes, those are people back there)
They obviously haven't been in our server room.
A witch's tit, and a brass monkey's balls.
"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,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
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"Damn that's cold! I didn't realize there was any place on earth where dry ice could occur naturally."
Apparently you don't know my ex-wife...
:q!
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
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.