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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?
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?
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?
...isn't that the same bitch who claimed to jump her kawasaki over the chernobyl reactor or whatever?
You're probably thinking of Lake Vostok.
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
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!
This is some serious industrial-strength irony.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
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.