Posted on 03/19/2025 6:54:53 AM PDT by hardspunned
A group of South African scientists has pleaded for help, saying they are trapped in an isolated base on a cliff edge in Antarctica with a team member who has become violent.
One of the team has been accused of assault and threatening violence against his colleagues, according to the South African newspaper The Sunday Times. South Africa's environment minister confirmed that an assault had taken place.
Why It Matters The overwintering team, a group that remains in a remote and extreme environment during winter months, knew that 10 of their 15 months at the base would be spent in isolation but may now be in danger from one of their own members, who has been accused of being mentally unstable.
Members will have undergone psychometric tests to ensure they could withstand the stress of this isolation but the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), which manages the South African National Antarctic Programme, now plans to retest them.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Did they let some gay on the team?
don’t accept any help from the Norwegians
Send in MacReady.
What is the ratio of the one getting and the rest of the crew?
Time to rush the chump.
Sounds like the intro to a Grieg Beck novel.
“Concerns had been raised about this team member’s behavior before this point, The Sunday Times reports, when there was still an opportunity for the SA Agulhas II to evacuate the team member before it departed Antarctica.“
I’ll give you odds this person is a woke protected pervert.
Everyone automatically assumes the alleged violent team member is in the wrong.
Maybe the majority of this group own Teslas. I suppose that would be reason enough for the non-Tesla-owner to “go wild” in today’s world.
“””on a cliff edge”””
Really? It was a dark and stormy night.
[[with a team member who has become violent]]
Um, with “A” team member who has become violent? Ther are 8 agaisnt 1- what’s the problem? Defend yourself and stop the threat!
Antarctic in the winter...?....I guess that the global warming Aficionados spazzed out.
Let me know when they graduate to cannibalism.
Make a movie out of this with “The Thing” invading their cozy n warm colony
It would be easy to overwhelm the perp, but that takes common sense.
Let Hollywood use their billions for the rescue - as a condition of using the story for their next blockbuster movie.
Sounds crazy to me as well. I doubt they are all Christians, turning the other cheek.
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