Archive for July, 2008
There are only 7 of these in the world. One is in Antarctica at McMurdo Station. The wheels on this bus that go round and round are about 1.5 meters high. Ivan is used for transporting people to and from Pegasus runway. Some pictures of me behind the wheel while Ivan is in motion (notice [...]
Originally submitted at REI These award-winning alpine boots with Gore-Tex® inserts feature all synthetic construction and a unique ankle-hinge system for ample support. La Sportiva Trango S EVO GTX Mountaineering Boots – Men’s La Sportiva VS Antarctica By Antarctica Ken from McMurdo Station Antarctica on 7/24/2008 4out of 5 Sizing: Feels half size too [...]
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We had a stack of hard drives that needed to be physically destroyed. They were bad and unusable and we needed to find a good way to destroy them. Well few of my mates here are in the Heavy Shop where they work on all the big equipment, dosers and the like. SO I pitted [...]
The winds have calmed down to about 40, which for BI is probably about normal. We will be able to complete the work we came to do. Some of it is outside which during the storm yesterday was pretty much impossible. Sandwiches for supper and the latest episode of StarGate Atlantis, bacon and eggs for [...]
We arrived at Black Island last night about 8ish, Peter fixed the problems that were happening and finished around 2am. The storm that was to hit at midnight, happened at 8am this morning. It was like a light switch being turned on as the winds hit. Just about 20 minutes ago we recorded winds at [...]
Just about 20 minutes ago I found out that I get to go to Black Island. This is where we have our main satellite dish for off continent communications. I am pretty much along for the ride, so there will be a lot of photo taking. Its about a 3 hour journey by Piston bully. [...]
Bowling teams 14 and 15 (my team) had a great game last night. The constant battering and verbal abuse between Ken Barlow a Kiwi (from New Zealand) and my self came to a head last night on the bowling lanes. Kiwi Ken beat me 130 to 120. Not impressive scores but it was a lot [...]
Learned a few interesting things about clouds this week. The photos below are of some Nacreous clouds which are produced by a rather nasty but NATURAL chemical reaction involving the ozone layer, sulfuric and nitric acid, water, extreme cold and high altitudes, and sun light. The following detailed explanation is from Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud Polar stratospheric [...]
Hope you all had a nice warm weekend shooting off fireworks and stuff. We did not see any fireworks. We did have a party on Friday and a brief 4k run on Sunday. We dis not have a very warm weekend, we saw temps drop to -70 on Sunday with pretty strong winds. I think [...]
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