jdcaples
Not Suitable w/220v Gen
I would not go to Antarctica.
Ok, I might, but it would take obscene amounts of money, or very realistic threats - by very, very smart people - threats against a very few beloved ones' lives or limbs, before I would consider setting foot in such a god-forsaken place as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys
In the same region there is Lake Vida, where 2800 year old microbes were harvested from the largest, longest cryogenic accident I could possibly have imagined if I'd lived 10,000 years.
If Antarctica weren't a place
that would just as soon kill me
as it would allow me
to come within 3000 miles of its shores,
I might feel differently
because the place is filled with really fascinating things.
... Like Lake Vostok.... I love thinking about Lake Vostok and what really nifty novelties are locked away down there (where again, I am decidedly not welcomed!).
It's the stuff of really bad and really good science fiction novels and movies....
... but I get nauseous just thinking about the cold, the wind, the practical problems I'd encounter after 4 hours at Vostok Station.... ugh.
If you had an all expense paid trip to anywhere on the largest, coldest, windiest possibly most deadly desert on the planet, would you go? If you'd go, where would you go?
... and don't gimme any of that Penguin stuff....
-Jon
Ok, I might, but it would take obscene amounts of money, or very realistic threats - by very, very smart people - threats against a very few beloved ones' lives or limbs, before I would consider setting foot in such a god-forsaken place as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys
In the same region there is Lake Vida, where 2800 year old microbes were harvested from the largest, longest cryogenic accident I could possibly have imagined if I'd lived 10,000 years.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_VidaThe lake gained widespread recognition in December 2002 when a research team, led by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Peter Doran, announced the discovery of 2,800 year old halophile microbes (primarily filamentous cyanobacteria) preserved in ice layer core samples drilled in 1996.The microbes reanimated upon thawing, grew and reproduced.
If Antarctica weren't a place
that would just as soon kill me
as it would allow me
to come within 3000 miles of its shores,
I might feel differently
because the place is filled with really fascinating things.
... Like Lake Vostok.... I love thinking about Lake Vostok and what really nifty novelties are locked away down there (where again, I am decidedly not welcomed!).
It's the stuff of really bad and really good science fiction novels and movies....
... but I get nauseous just thinking about the cold, the wind, the practical problems I'd encounter after 4 hours at Vostok Station.... ugh.
If you had an all expense paid trip to anywhere on the largest, coldest, windiest possibly most deadly desert on the planet, would you go? If you'd go, where would you go?
... and don't gimme any of that Penguin stuff....
-Jon