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Science in Antarctica
Richard writes "Just to prove that science is cool; Tania, the editor of Nerdling zine has travelled to Antarctica just to publish some interesting reading material on her blog. Apparently there to calibrate a bunch of physics equipment she appears to spend most of her time marvelling at ice bergs and penguins, abseiling around the continent, and giving us explicit details of the everyday ordinary stuff. Advanced technology in an extreme environment, fantastic stuff!"
At time like this, isn't it better to have a videolog or photolog?
I'm not very well-travelled, so it's a bit overwhelming for me to imagine "The sun came out for the first time in a few days and turned the smooth ocean into a mirror which reflected the bergs" without linking it to DiCaprio.
And how do I decode "sshhhhhHHHHHH" or "KSHHHXXXXXX" or "CRACK CRUNCH GCKKXX"?
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
What's that?
Jesus, Richard, that's quite the story description. Have an orgasm over this, did you?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Publish a picture of yellow snow in the antarctic and I'll look at the photolog.
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Thanks for the reminder why I don't bother reading peoples blogs. That nerdling magazines was awful too. I got 4 pages into one of the issues about a "tour of Europe" to realise that this Tania, is just another self-obsessed, self-promoting, intellectually challenged blogger.
With regards to the concurrently running poll - "What will kill the internet?" it's a shame "Blogging" isn't one of the options.
Mod me troll, I really do have karma to burn, but this article really isn't news for nerds. And yes I did even bother to RTFA. The bits which weren't simply filled with comments like "woo"
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
Unfortunately her blog renders badly on this install of firefox, anyone else getting overlapping between the two panes?
Here is an interesting story I read about drinking at the south pole. Modern Drunkard South Pole
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I should never go down there, because I would probably torment the penguins. Am I the only one who's curious about what it would be like to run through a flock of penguins to see if it would it be anything like running through a flock of pigeons?
"Advanced technology in an extreme environment, fantastic stuff!"
I believe those are called porn ads?
Isn't there an underground lake in Anarctica that yields the possibility of life on Europa?
I don't think "just to" means what you thinks it means.
Isn't there an underground lake in Asia that yields the possibility of life on America?
ab = german down
seil = german rope
abseilen = german verb
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I didn't know Slashdot was a german website.
...isn't that the same bitch who claimed to jump her kawasaki over the chernobyl reactor or whatever?
Well in English it is! :-)
According to http://dict.leo.org "to abseil" is an English verb (with the same meaning = to rope down). In German, "abseilen" also means to steal away.
But I could imagine circumstances in antarctica in which it would be very hard.
I am usually pretty open to news from a wide variety of topics and issues, but I definitely have ZERO interest in this one. This is NOT news for nerds. I realize today is a Sunday and everyone's probably watching f00tball, but boy was it that slow of a day?
Works fine in the latest Opera release if anyone cares!!!
Advanced technology in an extreme environment, fantastic stuff!
Yeah when are they going to get to finding Atlantis? I want a cool puddle jumper thingy.
Next up: a girl called Kristin installs Linux.......hold off whacking it just yet.
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
What's with all these Antarctica stories? Time for an own category perhaps? With a cutesy penguin ico.. Wait a minute!
Oh never mind.
And there's that great review of John Carpenter's The Thing : "The most noteworthy deviation from actual USAP practices is that in the film everyone has a flamethrower...In the actual USAP, employees are forbidden flamethrowers."
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Poster must have thought it was some sort of boat.
There needs to be a new rule: Whenever linking to a story by a chick, please also include a link to a picture of her. This will save countless hours as every male slashdotter tries to search for a pic of her on their own.
Come on, people, this should be obvious.
Raven turned you down, so now you hope to score this chick instead?
Jesus Christ...who'd have thought one guy could kill Slashdot?!
Come on RobLimo, FIRE Michael Sims now, while there's still a Slashdot to save!
Or for those who don't have a subscription to the OED: abseiling
when we find a life form that evolved there from scratch instead of adapting from warmer climes. If there's a beasty of ANY level of complexity there that originated in the icy south, we'll have a MAJOR leg up on looking for life in non-human-friendly biospheres on other planets.
"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
I'm sorry, but this is one of the most beautiful and personal accounts I've ever read about science. I can't believe that the people who read slashdot, who are apparently lovers of science and technology can't see this blog for what it's worth. Somebody wrote that 6000 blogs by male scientists are being ignored - well I'm a male scientist and the reason I read this blog and not others is because apart from being witty in the way us science types like, beautifully written in a literary style, it's informative and most of all it's INSPIRING. No other blog out there that I've seen gives so much of the blogger. Tania is a most inspiring person, she's a person who LOVES science and if you guys can't see past the fact that the page only loads properly in IE and read the love of science then, as far as I'm concerned, you can't call yourself nerds!
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.
It's still codable in Notepad, or BBEdit in my case. Content rules!No dancing teddy bears in Flash for me.
-ccm
Too much Law; not enough Order.
[shameless self-promotion]
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I get "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" when trying to connect now. Too bad she wasn't using my web host, which would have have allowed her to let others easily pay for her bandwidth.
Guess this means the servers effectively went south with her.
Publish a picture of yellow snow in the antarctic and I'll look at the photolog. ..in the Antarctic - the piss freezes on the fly, and drops to the ground in little yellow piss-ice-balls - didn't you know?
Ice makes a pretty good Cerenkov radiator. Just ask the folks on AMANDA and RICE.
Wow! Tania is on slashdot. This is how you can tell a nerdling has arrived. Do check out her site when the traffic dies down, her main thing, or internet thing is her fabulous 'zine, the nerdling. It is really inspiring, makes you want to put on a lab coat, mess up your hair and wander around the campus bumping into things. You will love her account of iceland, I still laugh about it, but then I still laugh about Kirk saying "this increases it's power by one to the fourth power" As a disgruntled former scientist, this gives me hope for the future, for a few minutes anyway. Once the slashdot effect has died away, read the nerdling!