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Farewell To the South Pole Dome
Julie188 writes "After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was deconstructed this austral summer. Designed and constructed by the Seabees — the construction battalions of the US Navy — in the early 1970s, the dome's geodesic design provided a unique solution to the challenges posed to engineers trying to build structures at the South Pole. The dome is being returned to southern California where it will be held in storage. It could possibly be trotted out as an exhibit in a new US Navy Seabees museum."
Now try 8. If you do a good job, It'll be instantly modded +5 something.
It's not the thing, it's John Wayne:
John Wayne's not dead - he's frozen! And when we find a cure for cancer, we're gonna thaw out the Duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off. You know why? You ever taken a cold shower? Well, multiply that by 15 million times. That's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be.
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Just watch for any large dogs coming along with the building.
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Got to watch out for ice worms too. They crawl in your ear and make your CRAZY! (X-Files S01E08)
"I'm not a quack, I'm a mad scientist! There's a difference." - Dr. Cockroach
how will we ever find the second stargate?
No kidding. I regret that I had only five moderator points to mark the lame jokes in this discussion either "Redundant" or "Offtopic".
It might be cute except that they're repetitive, they're not really funny, and when most posts are lame jokes that have little or nothing to do with the actual topic, it produces an incredibly low signal-to-noise ratio. I might even stop posting racial jokes if people quit doing this. But if people are going to do this, and the signal-to-noise ratio is all shot to hell anyway, might as well use the N-word and make the politically correct pantywaists wet their beds. Which they do like clockwork because "don't feed the trolls" has no meaning for them.
Too bad Dennis Leary had to rip-off Bill Hicks to get famous. He was the Carlos Mencia of the early '90s, with the exception that he got away with it.
Too bad Dennis Leary had to rip-off Bill Hicks to get famous. He was the Carlos Mencia of the early '90s, with the exception that he got away with it.
He was a loudmouth Mexican who's not really funny and made his career by appealing to the fastest-growing minority in the USA?
He was a loudmouth Mexican
And one of his funniest bits was about people like you who assume all brownish people must be Mexican.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
The DHS and Coast Guard both said they didn't need LORAN-C
They still haven't identified the backup for GPS, though. The best reason to do away with it that I can think of, though, is that it was designed for civilian use and yet practically no civilians use it. Consequently almost nobody has a receiver.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"