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World holds its breath for Russian scientists drilling in Antarctic (No Contact)
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| February 4, 2012
| Rob Cooper and Thomas Durante
Posted on 02/04/2012 5:14:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: Larry Lucido
“Why arent they doing this during the summer?”
They WERE doing it during the summer. It’s now early fall, not far from the autumnal equinox, which is the point where the sun goes down for good at that latitude. When the sun sets, all activity in the Antarctic stops until Sept. 21.
To: cripplecreek
Hey ‘creek’’ is it me or does this dude have some head of hair or what? Man, how does he do it?
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:13:34 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: hosepipe
Vostok station holds the record for the lowest ever temperature recorded at the surface of the Earth (−89.2°C). http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/geography/weather/temperatures.php So 66Cis not out of line.
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:22:26 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: jmacusa
Man, how does he do it?ALIENS!
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:25:10 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1111 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: null and void
ALIENS!
It's obvious.
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:28:42 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Fightin Whitey
Well, Cameron ‘s probably looking for another wife . . .
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:30:37 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: Larry Lucido
But then....how does winter proper start on Tuesday? There are no more proper winters, Larry.
To: Larry Lucido
You did. It's summer down there and now it is ending. I have a work colleague that is currently on a sabbatical down there working at McMurdo Station running the mobile equipment shop. He originally wanted to go for a “winter” tour but they made him wait for “summer” first. He can't wait to get back to his real job and family here in Wyoming and “leaves the ice” next Thursday. He has sent me some really cool pictures of the South Pole during his tour.
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:46:29 PM PST
by
3boysdad
(The very elect.)
To: Treeless Branch
So, you’re one of them scientists?
To: JRandomFreeper
“Oy! Prayers up. Cold sucks.”
I can’t think of a better bunch to handle super-cold temperatures. But even so, I certainly wish them the best. Sooner, rather than later, we’re going to have to team up with them to deal with China and the bearded ones. After reading the books that I have, I have a BOATLOAD of respect for what they’ve had to deal with, and a BOATLOAD of respect for the level of sacrifice they’ve put themselves through, just to try to keep their children from getting minced up.
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:48:56 PM PST
by
BobL
(I don't care about his past - Newt will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:51:58 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
“Conversation, OTOH, can be difficult. You have to pick the words up, carry them inside your cabin, and thaw them on the stove before you can hear them. “
LOL. They dealt with something like that on the Flintstones once. Fred screamed into a box...they drove into the woods, opened the box, and then the yell rang out.
In any case, I know what you’re getting at. If people understand and are prepared for super-cold conditions, they can survive, as the people in your north do every year.
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posted on
02/04/2012 6:52:24 PM PST
by
BobL
(I don't care about his past - Newt will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
To: PJ-Comix
The scientific community is holding its breath for a team of Russian scientists that has been out of contact with colleagues in the U.S for six days, as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.
Sounds like a sentence out of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/04/2012 7:04:20 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Jim Noble
Ancient Aryans?
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posted on
02/04/2012 7:07:43 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Larry Lucido
>Why dont we travel to the sun at night?)<
Because it will be so dark we might fly right past it?
You got me, I stumped... LOL
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posted on
02/04/2012 7:07:44 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
To: JRandomFreeper
"I just turned up the heater thinking about it." Your funny!!! Got a chuckle from me.
To: PJ-Comix
The creepiest thing is that the outside world will have to wait until LATE this year...
OTOH, the outside world may have to wait ~5300 years à la Oetzi.
(Should something have gone horribly wrong.)
To: Larry Lucido
It is February, which *IS* high summer in the Antarctic. Winter in the northern hemisphere is summer in the southern hemisphere, right ?
I don’t understand why this article implies winter is closing in.
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posted on
02/04/2012 7:43:23 PM PST
by
Kellis91789
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
To: PJ-Comix
Hopefully their communications system is just broken. I really hope they arent’ in a room drinking vodka and looking at eeach other waiting to see who turns into an alien.
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