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White Christmas In Antarctica

Posted by timothy on from the plus-they-can-exploit-all-the-time-zones dept.

The idea of a white Christmas may seem magical for many of us, but Science Daily asks you to "spare a thought for a team of scientists forgoing the festive season to take part in a novel campaign being carried out in one of the most inhospitable regions on Earth to support ESA's CryoSat mission." Plenty of people cooped up in the upside-down parts seem to find good ways to amuse themselves; I am especially fond of this introduction to Condition One weather, and Cops McMurdo. If anyone is reading this down there, I hope you're having a nice holiday.

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  1. But.. It's summertime in antarctica. by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's boom town over there right now. The real troopers are the ones who stay on over the winter.

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  2. Re:White Christmas by Starayo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, it is summer down here in the southern hemisphere.

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  3. Re:Merry Christmas also to military personnel by Vertana · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, I'm in the United States military at the moment and we don't call ourselves a "defense force"; we call ourselves the "armed force", which seems, (as you seem to have pointed out) a territorial neutral term.

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  4. Re:Don't Worry by York+the+Mysterious · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a lot more than 125 people. We have ~1000 at McMurdo right now. 200 and change at the South Pole. There's also large field camps like AGAP and WAIS, Palmer (a full station, but really small), as well as lots of little stations. There's a ton of people down here every year.

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