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This undated composite image from NASA shows Antarctica. Two blocks of butter have been found intact after nearly a century in an Antarctic hut used by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his doomed 1910-12 expedition, according to a report. (AFP/HO/File)


2 posted on 12/16/2009 5:44:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge
Robert Scott. First explorer to discover Norwegians at the South Pole.
5 posted on 12/16/2009 5:49:08 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Must be a really old picture — that was when there was still ice there.


6 posted on 12/16/2009 5:54:25 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Two blocks of butter

I can't believe it's not butter! it's Parkay!


14 posted on 12/16/2009 6:14:11 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: NormsRevenge
He is a picture from 'Honest' Al Gore's new movie in which he retraces the Scott Expedition's route to the south pole.

19 posted on 12/16/2009 8:01:21 PM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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So neat photos of Scott's hut and Shackleton's hut here: Abandoned Antarctic Huts
20 posted on 12/16/2009 9:18:24 PM PST by elli1
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I can only imagine the CO2 footprint required to create and transport the butter to that location. I am also surprised that they found it...didn’t Al Goracle says the ice caps completely melted or something. I could have sworn I saw the butter sticking out of the mouth of the stranded polar bear in his nobel award winning mockumentary!

I think I am becoming a wee bit cynical in my old age...


21 posted on 12/16/2009 9:26:13 PM PST by surfer
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