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In historic first, US icebreaker reaches North Pole: What will it do there?
Christian Science Monitor ^
| SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
| Kevin Truong
Posted on 09/10/2015 11:03:13 AM PDT by thackney
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:03:13 AM PDT
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thackney
To: thackney
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:06:46 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: thackney
What will it do there?
Destroy the prehistoric killer virus from six threads down from this one?
To: thackney
Grapple that Russian flag off the bottom and return it to Putin?
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:08:24 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: thackney; All
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:09:21 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: thackney
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:09:41 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: thackney
break the ice into small chucks for use during happy hour.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:10:07 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: thackney
...the Coast Guards law enforcement mission...Will this cut back significantly the current polar crime wave?
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:11:29 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)
To: thackney
Physically the north pole or just the region?
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:11:37 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: notdownwidems
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:12:54 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
This will be a platform for Obama to ‘in his eyes’ prove the global warming claim. Never before has a vessel made it to the north pole, the ice must be thinner and melting.
To: thackney
Knowing Ø, serve lunch to the Russians.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:13:44 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Bury Obama’s BC and transcripts.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:14:38 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: BenLurkin
Grapple that Russian flag off the bottom and return it to Putin?
Don't send it to Russia, parade it at Foxboro Stadium until Kraft gets his ring back.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:15:13 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: thackney
What’s the carbon footprint for powering a 30,000 hp ship for 2 months?
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:16:14 AM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: pfflier
Actual North Pole.
http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgchealy/aws15/150906.asp
Despite challenging ice conditions, we made great time through the ice this week and arrived at the top of the world about a week earlier than planned. The cooperation and teamwork between the deck crew and scientists has been a key to our success. HEALY encountered the thickest ice during the 200 mile transit between 82°; and 85°;N. It was up to ten feet thick, and demanded three engines and careful ice piloting by the bridge team to keep the ship safe and transiting in the right direction. From time to time, the ice became so thick we were stopped dead in our tracks and needed to back up several hundred yards to give ourselves room to pick up speed and ram into the ice to break it. This so called backing and ramming is felt by the entire crew, as the entire ship rocks and rolls, and bounces as it crushes through the ice.
Though this area of thicker ice slowed us to 3 knots, we daily progressed toward the pole. Morale is high, as the crew celebrates our accomplishment, but our long and arduous journey is far from finished. More ice and science stations await us once we depart the North Pole and begin our transit south; heading further east than our northbound track carried us.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:16:31 AM PDT
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: pfflier
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:17:14 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: George from New England
Never before has a vessel made it to the north pole Not true. First time a US ship did it unaccompanied by another.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:18:13 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: JoeProBono
Hope they got the right north pole.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:18:16 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: JoeProBono
That’s the only heavy icebreaker we have.
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posted on
09/10/2015 11:18:45 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
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