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US EVACUATION IN ANTARCTICA?- RUSSIA CALLED IN TO HELP?

 
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just passing this as interesting,

US EVACUATION IN ANTARCTICA?- RUSSIA CALLED IN TO HELP?

Posted By: CliffMickelson
Date: Friday, 7 January 2005, 4:30 p.m.

Greetings all:

This just in from one of my friends in Australia:

I have no verification on the story yet. Am attempting to get in touch with those who would know. No reply yet. Anyone else heard anything?

-CliffMickelson

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Hey Cliff,

What happening at Antartica?

According to inside Aussie news reports the US has decided to evacuate its base at McMurdo in the Antartic and has requested the Russians to also send its icebreaker the Krasin to assist evacuation. The Krasin, which I believe is one of their big mothers, is reported to be presently south of the equator under full steam to meet a US icebreaker. The story goes that 2 large icebergs are grounded in McMurdo Bay preventing supplies reaching the Base.

There´s something wrong with this story.

This time of the year is favorable for all manner of activity at Antartica. The Russian tourist ship the icebreaker,Kapitan Khlebnikov, is probably at Antartic with tourists. Or at least it is capable of cancelling the tourists and rushing from its permanent dock in New Zealand or Tasmania to evacuate staff.

These big mother icebreakers are probably engaged to remove huge quantities of instruments and people. Why are they rushing to remove instruments, equipment, etc, and people??

It is doubtfull that grounded 2 icebergs would halt supplies. What is incoming...might be a good question with this story??

I am suspecting, more than anything incoming, is that ice is shearing off the Antartic land mass and the Base is draining out to sea.

Have you anything on this story?

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Sorry, I don´t have a link, but maybe there will be lots the next week!
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Here´s a link for more info.

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Moscow, Russia, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Russian icebreaker sent to rescue a U.S. Antarctic base is halfway there, Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
The icebreaker Krasin left Vladivostock on Russia´s Pacific coast on Dec. 21 and is scheduled to rendezvous with an American icebreaker on the outer edge of the Antarctic ice pack on Jan. 20, Interfax said. The two ships will then seek to rescue the McMurdo research base.

The base at McMurdo Sound is the main scientific base of the Antarctica program of the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Krasin will clear the way for cargo ships carrying fuel, food and medicines. Otherwise the McMurdo station personnel would have to be evacuated, Interfax said

The rescue operation was requested by the U.S. government.

Traditionally, two icebreakers of the U.S. Coast Guard, Polar Sea and Polar Star, cater to the needs of the McMurdo station. However, their capacity is several times smaller than that of the Krasin and one of them is currently being repaired, the news agency said.
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Russian icebreaker to rescue U.S. base



Moscow, Russia, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Russian icebreaker sent to rescue a U.S. Antarctic base is halfway there, Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
The icebreaker Krasin left Vladivostock on Russia´s Pacific coast on Dec. 21 and is scheduled to rendezvous with an American icebreaker on the outer edge of the Antarctic ice pack on Jan. 20, Interfax said. The two ships will then seek to rescue the McMurdo research base.

The base at McMurdo Sound is the main scientific base of the Antarctica program of the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Krasin will clear the way for cargo ships carrying fuel, food and medicines. Otherwise the McMurdo station personnel would have to be evacuated, Interfax said

The rescue operation was requested by the U.S. government.

Traditionally, two icebreakers of the U.S. Coast Guard, Polar Sea and Polar Star, cater to the needs of the McMurdo station. However, their capacity is several times smaller than that of the Krasin and one of them is currently being repaired, the news agency said.
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Check out this story but go to the link for the embeds in the article itself.

"The world this morning continues to reel from the continuing effects on our planet’s ionospheres from the continued bombardment of energy surges in the Southern Hemispheric Regions.

Acting upon the urgent pleadings from the United States, President Putin has ordered the historically Great Russian Icebreaking ship Krasin to join with the Americans Coast Guards in the rescue mission of the American Antarctica research station McMurdo. The head of this Russian Antarctica expedition Valery Lukin has said, "Five icebergs have run aground near the station and ice cannot flow out from the bay. The ice is 3.5 meters thick in the bay, and the station supply is difficult."

While we in Russia have been following with much urgency this rescue mission for the 5,000 inhabitants of McMurdo Station, the Western media are continuing to keep their people from knowing about these events. More surprising to us has been that the Americans own scientific organization NASA has stated, “The National Science Foundation (NSF) officials said that the B-15A iceberg and the frozen Sound will not interfere with supply ship access to McMurdo Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the nation´s research activity in Antarctica.”

The continued breakings up of the great ice sheets of Antarctica are virtually unknown to the Western people. But how much longer they can continue to be deceived, when even the Western media can’t refuse the reporting of the massive icebergs flowing throughout the Southern Hemispheric waters, is a question many of us are asking of ourselves.

“Icebergs have been sighted in New Zealand waters for the first time in 57 years, prompting a warning to shipping in the region.”, says one of these media reports by the Canadian news organization, CBC.

The direness of these present events are best said in a media article from Ireland that says, “"Currently there is “more fast (blocked) ice in McMurdo Sound than we’ve ever recorded in living history for this time of year,” he said, adding that the iceberg has been stopping normal winds and water currents from breaking up sea ice in McMurdo Sound."
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January 7, 2005

Pandemic Nears as Cosmic Ray Mutated Virus Unleashes Its Power

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

The world this morning continues to reel from the continuing effects on our planet’s ionospheres from the continued bombardment of energy surges in the Southern Hemispheric Regions.

Acting upon the urgent pleadings from the United States, President Putin has ordered the historically Great Russian Icebreaking ship Krasin to join with the Americans Coast Guards in the rescue mission of the American Antarctica research station McMurdo. The head of this Russian Antarctica expedition Valery Lukin has said, "Five icebergs have run aground near the station and ice cannot flow out from the bay. The ice is 3.5 meters thick in the bay, and the station supply is difficult."

While we in Russia have been following with much urgency this rescue mission for the 5,000 inhabitants of McMurdo Station, the Western media are continuing to keep their people from knowing about these events. More surprising to us has been that the Americans own scientific organization NASA has stated, “The National Science Foundation (NSF) officials said that the B-15A iceberg and the frozen Sound will not interfere with supply ship access to McMurdo Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the nation´s research activity in Antarctica.”

The continued breakings up of the great ice sheets of Antarctica are virtually unknown to the Western people. But how much longer they can continue to be deceived, when even the Western media can’t refuse the reporting of the massive icebergs flowing throughout the Southern Hemispheric waters, is a question many of us are asking of ourselves.

“Icebergs have been sighted in New Zealand waters for the first time in 57 years, prompting a warning to shipping in the region.”, says one of these media reports by the Canadian news organization, CBC.

The direness of these present events are best said in a media article from Ireland that says, “"Currently there is “more fast (blocked) ice in McMurdo Sound than we’ve ever recorded in living history for this time of year,” he said, adding that the iceberg has been stopping normal winds and water currents from breaking up sea ice in McMurdo Sound."

The Northern Hemispheric Regions are not being spared either and new research reports are showing this. One report concerns the Jakobshavn Isabrae glacier in Greenland, which according to new research has become the world´s fastest glacier. It is also Greenland´s largest outlet glacier, draining more than six percent of the country´s total ice sheet area and according to this new research, “Due to its recent speedup, the Jakobshavn Isbrae is now solely responsible for about four percent of the 20th century sea level rise.”

Unlike Russia where many hundreds of thousands have been moving away the coastal regions, Western people continue to move into them and prize them more highly than the safer areas of their mountains.

Most importantly for our consideration today though, are the increasing fears that these cosmic ray surges are the responsible agent for the mutation of the “highly virulent avian flu strain” known as H5N1.

In a report from London media sources we learn that, “The alarm now sounds with increasing frequency and urgency: the world could be on the brink of an influenza pandemic.”

Under the direction of the United States scientific organization The Centers for Disease Control, the most dangerous experiment in the history of mankind is about to be taking place involving this new virus. "This is the worst virus I´ve ever met in my long career.", says Dr. Robert Webster, a world-renowned expert on influenza based at St. Jude Children´s Research Hospital in the United States.

World Health Organization officials increasingly aware of our facing a world-wide pandemic regarding this new virus have stated "The geographic spread of the H5N1 virus in poultry, and evidence that it is becoming more versatile, could make its eradication impossible."

The worst possible scenario that could ever be imagined for the world-wide spread of this virus has now become the world’s reality with the Great Tsunami of 2004, where hundreds of thousands of dead are co-mingling with tens of thousands of international relief workers, and all in the home ground of this virus. Before this event Dr. Shiferu Omi, Western Pacific regional director for the World Health Organization had said, "We are closer now to an influenza pandemic than at any time in recent years."

Western people are also not knowledgeable about the scientific research that is showing more and more that the origins of viruses are extraterrestrial and the result of these viruses’ interactions and then mutations with cosmic rays.

One research paper, Analysis of Cosmic and Geophysical Factors Influence on Influenza Viruses Reproduction, has stated, “We have studied the influenza virus reproduction on the model of tissue culture being under the influence of solar and geomagnetic activities. It was discovered at a statistically reliable level that the harvest of viral generations was quantitatively different under the equal doses of infectious agent [A Hong Kong 1/68(H3N2)] and the standard conditions of laboratory experiment as well.”

It has further been recognized that, "Influenza outbreaks are often caused by newly arriving viruses from space. Among several lines of evidence, they noticed that the worst flu epidemics coincide with peaks in the eleven-year cycle of sunspot activity."

These cosmic rays are extremely penetrating micro-matter which travels through space at speeds approaching that of light. These rays have far more energy, impact, and destructiveness than the alpha, beta, and gamma rays emitted by radioactive atoms, and are that much more fatal. Cosmic rays - particles are strongly affected by magnetic fields.

There is no known technically available, economical, and lightweight portable or human designed barrier to cosmic rays. They can penetrate many feet of soil, rock, and metal. After penetrating through and interacting with a 10,000 mile protective magnetosphere of the Earth and 600 miles of atmospheric molecules, they are still powerful enough to penetrate up to 10 or 20 feet of rock. Cosmic rays also ionize water molecules inside the cells, leaving hydroxyl radicals to wander into the nucleus where they alter the DNA, also as Russian research has shown.

Adding to the frightening urgency of these current events are the growing numbers of scientific research papers coming forth stating that the previous periods in our planet’s history where mass deaths have occurred, and had been attributed to meteor impacts upon the earth, are more likely to have had their origins on this planet alone.

"Our geochemical analyses of these two famous end-Permian sections in Austria and Italy reveal no tangible evidence of extraterrestrial impact, "This suggests the mass extinction must have been home-grown.", says Christian Koeberl from the University of Vienna who headed an international team of scientists investigating these events.

For their public releases the Western scientists speculate that these mass extinctions were caused by volcanic activity, but in their private international conversations the cosmic ray mutations of viruses are their top concerns, and their worst fear, especially with the most dangerous virus ever known to human beings, H5N1, about to unleash its devastation upon all the world’s human beings.

Coinciding with these events is the apparent secret protections being given to some Western people by something called “chemical trail spreading”. I am not knowing of these things however and am requesting more information from them for our consideration.

Our outreaching to the people of the West about all of these important matters is continuing but I am not able to understand their reactions and thoughts regarding them. Their acceptance of the propaganda being told to them by their educational, governmental and religious institutions is not being countered in their home lives like ours has been, in our troubled times past under the communists.

More understanding of their social collective is needed by us in order for our efforts on their behalf to succeed. Not just faceless and soulless are they but they are not of the knowing of their souls.

© January 7, 2005, EU and US all rights reserved.

(Note: Sorcha’s frequent references to Western people are not meant to describe people from any particular country but are instead the words she uses to describe anyone who adheres to the thoughts and principals that characterize modern Western Nations. According to Sorcha, Western people have no Nation, no people, just lives spent on the accumulation of material things, as opposed to spiritual things.)
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This line stuck out:

"The ice is 3.5 meters thick in the bay, and the station supply is difficult."

Why can´t they just fly in supplies?
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We already told you so but some of you just call us ready for meds to name a more harmless expression:

"As your world begins to change its present reality, Mother Earth needs from time to time to relieve the immense pressures that your slow shift in consciousness is creating within her. Bear in mind that your planet is a complex living organism. Like you, she needs to evolve her internal and external structures. Her various life processes must now change the way they function. As a result, she needs to release some high stress points from just below her surface areas, which is why earthquakes and other related seismic activities have greatly increased in the last two decades. The frequency of seabed and land volcanism, for example, is up significantly in the past half decade. Fault movement and the creation of new fault zones are also on the rise. All this increases the potential for a large earthquake or a major volcanic eruption. We tell you this to let you know that many dramatic events may happen in the coming months.

Our Earth scientists and geologists are most interested in these changes; Mother Earth is returning to her original configuration. She is designed to be a monopolar planet with a locked, unified surface, featuring a slightly higher ratio of land to water mass. In order to regain her pristine contours, the two ´lost continents´ of Lemuria, in the Pacific, and Atlantis, in the Atlantic Ocean, will resurface. Furthermore, much of your sunken continental shelf will reappear. Another vital aspect of this is the re-creation in your atmosphere of the twin firmaments, which will be drawn from the water of the oceans, thus greatly lowering the ocean levels. The creation of vast inland seas in Lemuria, Europe, the Americas, and Atlantis will further reduce ocean levels. Mother Earth will still be recognizable to you, but from near-Earth orbit she will appear quite different.

To begin with, her POLAR ICE CAPS will be missing; furthermore, the land bridges uniting Atlantis with the Americas will again be visible.

These striking changes in the surface areas will be further enhanced by the reconnection to inner Earth. The extensive tunnel and natural cavern system that once united your planet´s two eco-systems will again be opened up. This reunion will necessitate your becoming reacquainted with the hierarchy of Devas that manages these highly complex life systems. Each classification of Deva is assigned to a certain species of plant or animal life. These spiritual Beings need your help in bringing these now-differentiated eco-systems together. This work requires that you be fully conscious and able to understand the rituals and activities needed. As with you, Mother Earth´s spiritual bodies are reintegrating with her physical one. This process will produce the two firmaments and allow her former surface features to reappear. Moreover, her crystalline core will brighten, thus increasing your color spectrum from the current seven, to eleven main hues. This will come about through the merging into your reality of those principles now hidden by your mind´s limited perceptions. "
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Zetas right again!alienship
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You mean like they normally fly supplies in off the Supply ships by helicopter?
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Typical GLP, trying to instill some deep sinister meaning into a mundane event.

Shit like this happens people. Get over it. And yourselves.
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"You mean like they normally fly supplies in off the Supply ships by helicopter?"

I thought of perhaps dropping loads from a plane. Interestingly this is also the second time a base has to be rescued because of supply shortage.
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Yes...Get over yourself; that´s why you need to move along now.
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"Zetas right again!alienship"
No they are not! This was NOT from Zetatalk in case you did not recognise the much more benevolent words in this message!
The originators are the Galactic Federation who say that the Zetas are responsible for the abductions on humans and cattle mutilations.
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"Typical GLP, trying to instill some deep sinister meaning into a mundane event."

Hardly a mundane event where USA have to ask for help from Russia, imagine the humiliation. :D
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Some of the earlier supply shortages were in other times of the year. January-March is conducive for supply deliveries. No evacuation was ordered that I recall.
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Surfingtheapocalypse is reporting that there was a Raytheon evacuation at Antartica a few years ago over a possible nuclear leak.
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this is telling - go to the links in the stories.
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Hi Cliff

Why do they need ice-breakers when there is a road there – right across the ice – against much objection!!
Also, this is the best time of year down there to land planes!
Is this anything to do with the Raytheon evacuations 2 years ago – I still haven´t been able to trace the extra 11 Raytheon employees evacuated then. Rumour had it that one of the nuclear installations caused that sudden desire to leave the continent!

Or is it the incoming power pulses have got out of hand?

"P.B"

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interest bump
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If Mickelson says it, we can safely assume that it has no connection with reality.
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Note that "rescue" does NOT equal "evacuation" - the Russians are helping out since one of the US ships is out of commision at the moment.

Flying supplies in is very expensive and dangerous, and the "road" across the ice to the base is nothing more than a cleared and compacted pathway made of ice and snow. Again, it would be very expensive to ferry supplies in that way (you´d also have to get the supplies to one of the other stations on the road to begin with).
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[link to www.antarcticconnection.com]

Nationality: United States
Location: McMurdo Station is Antarctica´s largest community. It is built on the bare volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, the farthest south solid ground that is accessible by ship.

map-mcmurdo.jpg (4415 bytes)
McMurdo Station

History: Established in 1956, it has grown from an outpost of a few buildings to a complex logistics staging facility of more than 100 structures including a harbor, an outlying airport (Williams Field) with landing strips on sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad. The station takes its name from McMurdo Sound which James Clark Ross named in 1841 after Lieutenant Archibald McMurdo of the ship Terror.

Information: The station accommodates 1200 people in summer and 200 in winter. The station covers nearly 1.5 sq. mi. (4 sq.km.) between Hut Point and Observation Hill. There are above-ground water, sewer, telephone, and power lines linking buildings.

Science:
The new science facility, the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center (CSEC), dedicated on 5 November 1991, began full operation during the 1994-95 season. The Crary Laboratory supports biological, earth science, atmospheric sciences, and a new aquarium, all under one roof. The Crary facility was named for the geophysicist and geologist Albert P. Crary (1911-1987), the first person to set foot on both the North and South Poles.

Web Cam:

Website:
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They´ll need more than a couple of icebreakers to evacuate 1200 people!
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remember all those microbiologists that keep disappearing and dieing under suspicious circumstances.......well if there are no more scientists left to help with this pandemic, it will kill many many millions
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Hmmm...Atlantis rising?
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Censorship on the Ice
Posted by Jeff Inglis on 07 January 2005
from the Why we have a 1st Amendment dept.
As is its standard practice, the U.S. National Science Foundation has again censored legitimate, true information coming out of Antarctica, to further its own ends, rather than serving the scientific principles of openness and honest inquiry.

On Jan. 7, 2005, I wrote the following to the editors of the Antarctic Sun, and their bosses, including Erick Chiang, at the NSF´s Office of Polar Programs:

Hello!

This is a letter to the editors, that I hope you will be able to publish. If a portion of it is censored by NSF or RPSC staff, please let me review the changes before the letter is published.

Editors:

National Science Foundation censorship ran throughout the Jan. 2, 2005, issue of the Antarctic Sun, and it is appalling to see my tax dollars spent this way. Clearly the Bush administration´s heavy hand regarding freedom of information has fallen on Antarctica.

Specific examples are: The published declaration that "five of the winning pieces of writing were deemed ... unsuitable for publishing" by the NSF.

In addition, the omission in the story about the Russian biplane of two major facts clearly indicates NSF censorship.

One fact is that the U.S. flew Russian Antarctic hero Artur Chilingarov and his group back to New Zealand and later billed the Russian government $80,000 for the "rescue" flight (see the Reuters report archived at [link to www.cdi.org]

The other fact is that the announcement that Chilingarov would be allowed to recover his plane came at almost exactly the same time the Russian government announced it would send an icebreaker to help break into McMurdo Station. (See the Russian government´s press release at [link to en.rian.ru]

This has led to widespread international speculation - and indeed, in places, outright assertion - that the U.S. and Russia struck a deal trading the airplane for the icebreaker.

It is deeply unfortunate that the National Science Foundation, apparently, feels the need to censor legitimate, true information from readers of the Antarctic Sun. I hope an explanation will be forthcoming for this action, which clearly runs counter to the scientific principles of openness and honest inquiry.

Jeff Inglis
Editor, Antarctic Sun (1999-2000)
Editor and contributor, Antarctic Sun (2000-2001)
South Portland, Maine

And later that day, I received the following reply from Valerie Carroll, my former boss (when I was a Sun editor) and the "publisher" of the Sun. She is also head of communications for Raytheon Polar Services Company, the civilian contractor to the NSF:

Hi Jeff,
We will not be publishing your letter to the editors. I´m more than happy to discuss the rationale with you. Give me a call anytime.
Val

Valerie Carroll, Raytheon Polar Services, Communications Manager email: [email protected], toll free: 800-688-8606 x32057 direct: 720-568-2057, mobile: 303-601-6029

I have just tried to call her (the evening of Jan. 7) but she was not in her office. I will post an update when I have spoken with her, about her rationale for not publishing my letter, but more importantly, for not publishing the facts about the Chilingarov deal, as well as when the NSF became literary critics in addition to scientists.


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Re: Censorship on the Ice
by Jeff Inglis on 08 January 2005

I spoke with Val later in the evening, and was not at all surprised that she decided not to run my letter. She was peeved that I copied my letter to Erick Chiang, because of course it draws attention to goings-on on the Ice.

She said NSF "handled it well" when the stories selected by impartial judges were found to have content regarding drug and alcohol use, sex and in some cases - most notably the fiction stories - were "totally fiction and silly."

The stories were censored to protect the readers of the Sun, she said, and not because "of any free speech concerns."

She said the NSF allowed the Sun to print that it was "all their fault" that the stories couldn´t run, and allowed them to include the Web address where readers could find the original text.

In one story, the word ´goddammit´ was replaced with symbols: “$#@!&*#$%!”

In another story, the words "coupled with mind-altering drugs" were removed before the story was printed in the Sun.

And three stories - one about drinking, one about sex and one about finding long-dead frozen explorers (that one, Val told me, was "very silly") - were barred entirely from the publication. Next year, she said, it´s likely there will be no writing contest - just photos. I hope people submit some arty nudes.

But nevertheless, the censorship in the Sun was not to further NSF´s ends, she said. (They wouldn´t mind, you see, if congressmen thought people were doing drugs on the Ice. In fact, that´s fine with NSF. Suuuuure.) The censorship was to protect readers - all 2,000 of them, when I worked there. One thousand were on the continent, and can be assumed to be of age, and the other half were mostly family and friends and Ice enthusiasts, we were told.

Obviously, that has changed.

"A lot of our audience are little fourth-graders," Val told me today. Which leads me to wonder why they bother handing the Sun out at the galley at McMurdo, or sending it to the Pole, Palmer or the ships. There are no fourth-graders there.

And fourth-graders also might not be able to comprehend the JSOC story or the one about Dome C in the Jan. 2 issue. So perhaps those should also have been judged "unsuitable" for publication, because they are too complex. Instead, I submit, the entire Sun could be as Lewis Black might write it: "Chilly chilly. Cold cold cold. Send more federal money - it keeps the home fires burning."

She also insisted that the Chilingarov mission is "totally separate" from the icebreaker deal. The Chilingarov arrangement, she said, was made over the summer, while the icebreaker agreement just happened. She allowed for the possibility of a "handshake" agreement, but said she knew nothing of it.
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Last summer the North Pole webcam showed open water.

The poles (where the solar energy gathers to enter the earth , see northern lights from space and it looks like text book magnetics) are melting big time during their summer.

But I suspect it has something to do with global warming due to termite farts.
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12/08/2005 10:11 AM
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very interesting post thanks
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To call Diego Garcia you will need to dial:
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