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Antarctic ice breaker now stuck [Rescuing Liberals Trying to prove Global Warming! Oh, the irony!]
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| 12/28/13
Posted on 12/28/2013 6:42:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Hey, it’s summer down there, n’ est-ce pas? What’s the problem? Shackleton survived much worse.
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posted on
12/28/2013 8:21:17 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
To: SoFloFreeper
You can bet old Uncle Sap will spend millions to rescue these turds.
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posted on
12/28/2013 8:21:28 AM PST
by
kenmcg
To: SoFloFreeper
I don't know for sure, but I have operated in Arctic sea ice. The wind is compressing tho sea ice making the Soviet ship unable to move thru it. If the wind is really blowing it will blow sea ice floes on top of the existing sea ice. When the rafted ice get as high as the main deck of the Soviet ship they are in trouble because the sea ice will start to weigh the ship down. In the worse case, the Soviet ship will be sunk. (I am assuming that the Soviet ship has a strong enough hull to resist the horizontal pressure from the sea ice.) These guys are in deep kimchi and are perhaps too dumb to know. What they need is a wind shift or a world class ice breaker to try and break them out. Does anyone know what breakers are down there now?
To: Citizen Tom Paine
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posted on
12/28/2013 8:47:16 AM PST
by
Eaker
(Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
To: SoFloFreeper
I especially like the line about the 74 reseachers,crew and tourist?! The Antartic is not what I would call a vacation destination
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posted on
12/28/2013 9:13:38 AM PST
by
blastdad51
(Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
To: SoFloFreeper
If they all freeze they would create tardcicles.
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posted on
12/28/2013 9:27:25 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: a fool in paradise
Ice breakers are killing the antarctic ice!Oh wow!! You're right!
We must have old growth and pristine ice. The white snow owls will only nest in old growth ice, and if anybody finds one of these white snow owls, I'm sure they will be placed on all sorts of threatened specie listings.
Or maybe, as in the case of the Arkansas Red Headed Peckerwood, the white snow owl doesn't have to be found. Just the mere suggestion that it exists is enough to precipitate declaring the entire Antarctic region HABITAT and declaring it off limits to all.
Come home, Neal Boortz.
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posted on
12/28/2013 9:31:51 AM PST
by
Ole Okie
(Baghdad Nanci Pelosi denies damage from Obamacare. LOL!!!!!)
To: Eaker
Chinese icebreaker.....also stuck in the ice.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:24:59 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
To: marktwain
"The expedition to gauge the effects of climate change on the region began November 27. The second, and current leg of the trip, started December 8."
I'd say the effects of "climate change" are pretty well established as: "Damn, Antarctica is f'ing COLD!"
And to which I'd reply: "Where is your global warming "god" now? BWAHAAHAAA!"
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:29:07 AM PST
by
boop
(Liberal religion. No rules, just right!)
To: boop
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:35:07 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: kenmcg
You can bet old Uncle Sap will spend millions to rescue these turds. The Canadians and Russians have the good icebreakers not the US.
To: SoFloFreeper
The French icebreaker appears to have failed and been called back.
According to Wiki, the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis can break level ice up to 1.23 metres (4 ft 0 in) thick. The failed Chinese Snow Dragon is rated nearly the same at at 1.1 meters.
I've seen reports that the ice is now 3-4 meters thick. If true, it looks like the Australian icebreaker won't break through to the Akademik Shokalskiy.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:56:37 AM PST
by
fso301
To: Citizen Tom Paine
Does anyone know what breakers are down there now? See post #32.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:58:49 AM PST
by
fso301
To: SoFloFreeper
Candidates for the Darwin Award?
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:54:02 AM PST
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: SoFloFreeper
The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was just six nautical miles away from the rescue, but now it's stuck in an Antarctica ice floe, too... That's what happens when you send a Snow Dragon to the South Pole to do a Fire Dragon's work...
(couldn't resist)
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