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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.'"
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title is, hmm, let's put a digital camera or an SD card full of digital pictures in Antartica for 100 years, and see if we can recover it :)
Here's an even better 360 view of the inside of the hut , which is a protected historic site - which might explain why no one has pried open every box inside looking for treasure.
(stupid broken link...)
This is amazing every time we see it. But alas I can see a different summary in the future:
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 02, 2114 @05:06PM
An anonymous reader writes
"A microSD card has been discovered after lying nearly a century on the moon in an ancient Chinese rover. From the article: 'It is presumed to contain photos which were taken during the PRC's 2013-2014 Moon mission. The microSD card was found in a rusted pile of what appeared to be the remains of the small rover. The card was taken to New Zealand, where even their ancient technology was unable to read it due to historic use of patent encumbered file systems and file formats where all documentation has been lost.'"
This is the future of discovering man kind's left overs. A piece of plastic with a small microchip containing unreadable gibberish.
For anyone not knowing the expedition stories, even just by reading Wikipedia you can get the sense of how much those people went through. It is well worth your time: (warning: it is worse than tvtropes;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_Age_of_Antarctic_Exploration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_Expedition/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen's_South_Pole_expedition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Sea_party
Trolls are like broken clocks. They show the truth two times a day. The rest of the day they talk nonsense.
It is interesting to see how little snow is there. Even Scott remarked in his journals how little snow there was in 1912 compared to the first time he was there, only 5 years later. "I have never seen the ice of the Sound in such a condition or the land so free from snow. Taking these facts in conjunction with the exceptional warmth of the air, I came to the conclusion that it had been an exceptionally warm summer." (Scott, 1912)
These photos are from 1914. Yet we are to believe all the snow/ice melt has happened in the last 50 years according to the "experts". e.g. http://news.sky.com/story/1078276/antarctic-ice-melt-is-worst-in-1000-years
GW/CC fail.
I LOVE the way they have the stove at one end, the chimney at the other, and run the flue diagonally across the hut to act as a radiator...