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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.
Abseiling: Lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
Publish a picture of yellow snow in the antarctic and I'll look at the photolog.
Linux at home
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?
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.
...just another self-obsessed, self-promoting, intellectually challenged blogger.
But... you said that you liked my blog. You said that I was very talented. Was that just to get into my bed?
ab = german down
seil = german rope
abseilen = german verb
IAAL
This definitely was not front-page material. In the Science section, maybe. After all I did learn how to make friends with penguins, and that's an important life skill!
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Europa is one of Jupiter's moons.
In German it means to rope down but also to steal away.
Jesus, Richard, that's quite the story description. Have an orgasm over this, did you?
I wouldn't be surprised. Tania is damn hot.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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...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.
I feel your pain. Every blog story here should be prefaced by why exactly we should care about the blogger in question. Something like:
You should care because author...
( ) Was on Star Trek
( ) Is a Linux kernel developer
( ) Is a Mozilla developer
( ) Is a hot girl
( ) Has pictures of hot girls in their blog
( ) Other (you should not care)
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
But I could imagine circumstances in antarctica in which it would be very hard.
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
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."
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
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.
While I agree with you that this is definitely not Slashdot material, I can see why someone might want to keep a blog of their expedition.
:)
Back in the days, the captain kept the log of the journeys and the happenings - today anyone can keep a blog of what's going on.
If not anything, it'll provide the future generations with lots of (albeit mostly boring) historical material
I actually found it quite interesting. Having never been to Antartica, I learnt quite a few things:
* China has a base there
* Ships take 10 hours to get into "port" with much crunching of ice along the way.
* Penguins aren't even remotely afraid of people.
Your post doesn't really add anything to the discussion. If you don't have anything useful to say, read the next article!
No, you just offered me the highest traffic linkbacks...
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
This is some serious industrial-strength irony.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Blogs will "peak" just like free web space like GeoCities is on the way out. Blogs will reach a point where the only people "blogging" are 13 to 15 year old teeny-bops.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Blogs are one of the best things about the internet. They give the little guy a voice. Granted many of the may be boring, biased, or stupid, so are many stories posted by maintstream media. I would much rather have the problem of searching through a lot of bad articles hoping to find a good one as opposed to hoping the only articles that are presented to me are good.
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Anybody at any time could keep a log of anything. The parent poster's beef, and my own, is that bloggers put their log on the web and expect other people to care about it.
I think it would be the other way around - blogs will only be used by serious people, and the teeny-bop generation will just lose interest and move on to another fad.
Just like the teeny-bop generation lost in webpages and moved on to Blogs. They've a very short attention span, and there was a time when every other teen had a website about herself, her dog, her boyfriend and Britney. Now that's changed and it's a Blog.
When teeny-bops started having websites, people felt that websites would go out of fashion and only Generation Y would have websites - rather, Gen Y got out as quickly as they got in and there are still plenty good websites and the number is growing.
Blogs are too powerful a medium for serious bloggers to lose interest.
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 think it's just a human thing for others to take notice of what you are upto. Just that Blogs provide people with the illusion that there are *actually* people who read your Blog and are interested in what you're upto.
And that feeling encourages people to write logs in situations where they otherwise wouldn't have.
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.
Say what you want, if she worked in my lab I'd be all over that. And yeah, I prefer maryann to ginger too.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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.
Any relation to Albanifest ?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
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?
More than mere navel gazing.
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!