Could easily lose my boat
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Speaking of Shackleton, some new glass plates discovered in one of Scott's supply depots.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/12/27/on-ice-100-year-old-negative-discovered-in-antarctic-ice
These guys were made of ice!
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/12/27/on-ice-100-year-old-negative-discovered-in-antarctic-ice
These guys were made of ice!
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/home-blizzard/clip2/
And you think it was cold and windy in the NE today!
Shot by Frank Hurley during the 1916 Mauson Antarctic expedition to the South Pole.
And you think it was cold and windy in the NE today!
Shot by Frank Hurley during the 1916 Mauson Antarctic expedition to the South Pole.
It's why I named the boat Endurance. My heros. (My uglyass dink is named James Caird). People tell me, "The boat didn't make it, why?". The crew did. ALL of 'em.
Cept of course the hounds. Poochy ain't bad. I tell people frequently, 'The difference between what you will and will not eat is 24 hours'. Think I'm kiddin'? After a week, you're buddy starts looking pretty good.. you'd be surprised at what you'll eat..
And you can not tell the difference between a cat and a rabbit on the grill.
Cept of course the hounds. Poochy ain't bad. I tell people frequently, 'The difference between what you will and will not eat is 24 hours'. Think I'm kiddin'? After a week, you're buddy starts looking pretty good.. you'd be surprised at what you'll eat..
And you can not tell the difference between a cat and a rabbit on the grill.
Isn't that what those Global Warming guys are doing?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...0/Antarctic-rescue-ship-now-stuck-in-ice.html
The poor Russian crew on the original ship and the crew on the Chinese Ice Breaker may just wind up re-creating Shackleton's experience.
I just can't make up stuff this good.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...0/Antarctic-rescue-ship-now-stuck-in-ice.html
The poor Russian crew on the original ship and the crew on the Chinese Ice Breaker may just wind up re-creating Shackleton's experience.
If I had the right boat, I would love to bounce off of that piece of ice one time. But really, I can not imagine the experience that the crew of the Endurance went through. When I start sniveling about the 30 degree weather, it would behoove me to remember that.
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Yeah, there's little doubt DeLong and the gang took a much harder loss. To say the least actually. I guess the Shackleton story always intrigued me on account of the survival numbers, the 'dual trek', overland hike, and documented thoroughly by Hurley. I love an epic. Paying attention Lost? Too bad there's no penguins on the north continent. Fluffy is going to have to fill the bill.
Lost is going to send you some Alberta weather fit for Shackleton, should feel this one all the way to the Gulf.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prairies-locked-into-extreme-cold-1.2484658
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prairies-locked-into-extreme-cold-1.2484658
Now you people need to keep all that junk up north where it belongs. And come get yer damn geese too while you're at it..
I've always thought most do these kinds of things for the recognition, or ego maybe. But I don't know. I myself have done truly outrageous things simply to see if I could pull it off; for instance I one time jumped onto a moving train from a bridge top. Could not resist it. No one around to see it, and at the time would never have told anyone for fear of the reprisals. I wanted to see if I could do it, and how many people could say they've done such a thing. It no longer matters, as I tend to be a little 'looser' with my adventures and tales nowadays because no one cares. (Turns out it is a WHOLE lot harder to get back off a moving train than jump it from a bridge).
There is no doubt that men were tougher back then, in every category I know. I know that I am not, not by far. Maybe those tough upbringings make those hard times as we perceive them not so bad in comparison. Hard to say. I will contend however that a hundred years in the future, the general populace will read about "us", and think the same things, diesels engines, hoisting oneself up a stick on a bosuns chair, etc.
I don't KNOW the times I've had people tell me I was born a hundred years too late, but in retrospect they were probably just making an opinion on my ignorance. And true, I fantasize about the treks of old, and maybe thirty or so years ago I might have been tough enough, but in reality I doubt it. People were generally born in harsh conditions, lived their whole lives that way, and it was all they knew. I however was raised more or less in a privileged household, and compared to these people I guess most are. And possibly a lot of these men didn't have much to 'live for' anyway; why not. Kinda like some guys inna Ranger battalion as well I'm sure. (Which makes me wonder what the hell I was thinkin'). Adventure? The desire to push oneself to the limits? Just to see what you're made of, with no one else around to see it, it just had to be proved to oneself?
Just sort of an early morning thought on this, it means nothing. Damn the winter, I spend too much time at this keyboard thinking. I guess when I look at the temperature right now and it is 68 degrees, I also have to bear in mind you guys and gals way up north that are literally frozen in. So from that perspective, ALL of you north of the Mason-Dixon or whatever are tougher than I am. And accept 0 degree days and frozen water as the norm, and I think, "MAN those guys are tough". Or something...
).There is no doubt that men were tougher back then, in every category I know. I know that I am not, not by far. Maybe those tough upbringings make those hard times as we perceive them not so bad in comparison. Hard to say. I will contend however that a hundred years in the future, the general populace will read about "us", and think the same things, diesels engines, hoisting oneself up a stick on a bosuns chair, etc.
I don't KNOW the times I've had people tell me I was born a hundred years too late, but in retrospect they were probably just making an opinion on my ignorance. And true, I fantasize about the treks of old, and maybe thirty or so years ago I might have been tough enough, but in reality I doubt it. People were generally born in harsh conditions, lived their whole lives that way, and it was all they knew. I however was raised more or less in a privileged household, and compared to these people I guess most are. And possibly a lot of these men didn't have much to 'live for' anyway; why not. Kinda like some guys inna Ranger battalion as well I'm sure. (Which makes me wonder what the hell I was thinkin'). Adventure? The desire to push oneself to the limits? Just to see what you're made of, with no one else around to see it, it just had to be proved to oneself?
Just sort of an early morning thought on this, it means nothing. Damn the winter, I spend too much time at this keyboard thinking. I guess when I look at the temperature right now and it is 68 degrees, I also have to bear in mind you guys and gals way up north that are literally frozen in. So from that perspective, ALL of you north of the Mason-Dixon or whatever are tougher than I am. And accept 0 degree days and frozen water as the norm, and I think, "MAN those guys are tough". Or something...