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Century Old Antarctic Expedition Notebook Found Underneath Ice
An anonymous reader writes During his second expedition to Antarctica, British explorer Robert Scott—and most of his team—died from overexposure to the elements. Over 100 years after their deaths, an artifact from his journey has surfaced. New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust reports that they have found a notebook which tracked Scott's last Terra Nova Expedition. According to the Antarctic Heritage Trust, the notebook belonged to a surgeon, photographer and zoologist named George Murray Levick, who accompanied Scott at the unfortunate Terra Nova expedition. Executive Director Nigel Watson said, "It's an exciting find. The notebook is a missing part of the official expedition record. After spending seven years conserving Scott's last expedition building and collection, we are delighted to still be finding new artifacts."
It doesn't even have an ethernet port.
At least the notebook's logs weren't written in a cryptic binary format like systemd's logs. Because they're in plain text, we can still easily understand them over a century later.
Obviously! It not only kills you, it leave your body all bright and washed-out, with poor saturation and contrast balance.
In Britain he is generally known as "Captain Scott" or "Scott of the errr is it the Artic or the other one?"
We deify people who try really hard but come second and Scott is no exception being beaten to the South Pole by the Norwegian Amundsen, but he cheated by knowing more about the environment and being properly equipped.
March 18th 1912: We got Pete for dinner.
March 19th 1912: We got Pete again for dinner. He was a little bit more frozen than yesterday.
March 20th 1912: Pete is good, but now it is three days in a row and I am starting to think Tom could be a valuable replacement and upgrade to our diet.
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Since historians work with whatever data is most prevalent, they would conclude this era was full of nerds who were pissed off when someone talks about optimizing the queues for ice in desert.
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was a pretty cool read.
The British fondly revere those who can maintain a stiff upper lip under trying circumstances.
Captain Scott's upper lip was decidedly stiff at the end of his expedition, as was his lower lip and the rest of him for that matter.
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I hear they're planning to change it to XML for easy reading and parsing, here's a preview of it:
I think the readability is much improved with the upcoming plaintext file format.
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And they almst certain died of scurvy, not exposure.
So basically, they didn't die of overexposure to the elements, they died of underexposure to the compounds?
Ezekiel 23:20
At least the notebook's logs weren't written in a cryptic binary format like systemd's logs. Because they're in plain text, we can still easily understand them over a century later.
Language's themselves are abstract constructs. We still can't decipher many extinct languages and there is no way to be sure that in the future anyone will still have knowledge of English or any other human language currently in use