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100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica

An anonymous reader writes "A box of 22 photographic negatives from Robert Falcon Scott has been discovered after lying nearly a century in the famous explorer's hut. From the article: 'The photos were taken during Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, another failed exploration whose members were forced to live in Scott's hut after their ship blew out to sea. The cellulose nitrate negatives were found clumped together in a small box in the darkroom of Herbert Ponting, Scott's expedition photographer, the trust said. The trust took the negatives to New Zealand, where they were separated to reveal 22 images.'"

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  1. Awesome by future+assassin · · Score: 4, Funny

    they must have felt like kids finding it.

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  2. Re:so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well it is an Antarctic "fucking hut"

    So they found porn?

  3. Re:Digital camera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would they have to be shot?

  4. Re:Space suits? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Funny

    In space there is one thing that makes space suits usable at all. That thing is lack of gravity.

    Oh man you'e just asking for a flock of pedants to jump on you about a "lack of gravity." Right after they explain to me that pedants do not come in flocks. (I believe the proper group name is an Annoyance.)

  5. Re:This won't happen in the future. by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Until they find an old interface to read it, and discover it has only a single copy of "Never gonna give you up" on it.

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