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>> No. 443361 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 4:44 pm
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Do either or you keep a bucket list or have things you would like to do in general in life?

I asked myself this earlier and couldn't really think of anything beyond fulfilling needs before I die such as saving enough for retirement. I like to think that it's because I'm at an age where I could do most things I'd want but that most things are daft once you get to thinking about implementation.
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>> No. 443363 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 7:40 pm
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>>443361
I have no bucket list, but I did have KFC today.
>> No. 443364 Anonymous
15th April 2021
Thursday 8:31 pm
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I would honestly love to go to Antarctica. And not just a cruise where you're not allowed on dry land, but a full-on trekking tour through the middle of it.

I saw a documentary some ten years ago about two or three people who were doing just that, with the special government permit you need to set foot on the continent. The scenery looked stunning, even more grandiose than what I've seen in the Alps or the Rocky Mountains, and the thought of there being just icy polar and nobody else around for literally thousands of miles is just endlessly fascinating to me.

Doesn't come cheap though. With airfare, equipment and everything else, you can expect to pay £5,000 to £10,000 per person for a four-week trip. And you will constantly be miserably cold for weeks, you'll be unable to shower, you'll have to live on tinned and dehydrated food, and will only have three or four changes of underwear and clothing to switch between, which will become increasingly smelly, like yourself. And 24-hour daylight will mess with your sleep cycle so that you will be constantly tired. And if something serious happens to you, you're kind of fucked because it could take a rescue helicopter several hours to get to you.

Worth it though.
>> No. 443511 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>>443364

I mentioned your post to a friend today and they said.....
>> No. 443512 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>443364

Per week that is on par with the courses I did learning mountaineering in the alps, so I'd call that a bargain.

My biggest problem with those situations is more the close quarters with strangers is I never have a good chance to wank, and after a few days of no release I go weird.

>If something serious happens to you, you're kind of fucked because it could take a rescue helicopter several hours to get to you

You and I have very different ideas of remote, I think you've been spoilt by civilisation, I am not saying a few hours helicopter on standby isn't a safety feature they offer, but I would say that is a highly unlikely for a response time if that wasn't expressly included in the price.
>> No. 443513 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 7:08 pm
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>>443512

> I am not saying a few hours helicopter on standby isn't a safety feature they offer, but I would say that is a highly unlikely for a response time if that wasn't expressly included in the price.

I think response time in many parts of the Alps is often less than 45 minutes, because they have a fairly good network of rescue helicopter stations that can get to you quickly. The main limiting factor will then be how accessible the surroundings are where you are. An airlift from a ravine is going to be more complicated than having nearby level terrain for the helicopter to land on.

If you're trekking across Antarctica, it'll probably depend on your mode of transport how far you will be from rescue services. Helicopters usually have a cruising speed of about 150 mph, so if you're 300 miles away, which is feasible in four weeks even on foot, it's going to take them anywhere upwards of two hours flight time to get to you.
>> No. 443514 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 7:45 pm
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>>443513

First Antarctica is significantly larger that 300 miles and I wouldn't assume the helicopter is stationed and on stand by in the place you started from, unless you know something I don't. Secondly, I wouldn't assume a helicopter to leave immediately for various logistical reasons. That is assuming fair weather for helicopters and your emergency hasn't put you in a situation where they don't know where to look for you. Next day seems like a more realistic but still quite short window.
>> No. 443515 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 8:19 pm
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>>443514
>That is assuming fair weather for helicopters

This would be the killer imo. The wind is brutal in Antarctica to the degree that I doubt you can rely on helicopters at all near the interior and especially not when you're in trouble. Not that you'd last long as even in summer it rarely goes above -30 even in warmer spots.

Although saying that there is a service offering comfortable flights to the South Pole:
https://www.eyos-expeditions.com/destinations/south-pole/
>> No. 443516 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 8:44 pm
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>>443515

I don't really know how you'd avoid icing on your rotors, and even with a fancy kerosine turbine engine I'd not fancy my chances starting one at minus 30.

I guess they must do it, but I'm not a helicopter expert nor a cold temperature expert. I can tell you all about the extreme challenges of getting a passenger jet going in mild english weather, though.
>> No. 443517 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 10:02 pm
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>>443516

>and even with a fancy kerosine turbine engine I'd not fancy my chances starting one at minus 30

Could they just leave it running at low revs? I saw something on TV about winter in the coldest part of Siberia once where it can be -50°C for weeks, and the handful of people living there in that one village pretty much had their Ladas running 24 hours a day throughout the whole winter, because there is no engine antifreeze that can take that kind of temperature, so any engine that's shut off would freeze up completely within a few hours.

They also always kept a bag of replacement car door handles at the ready, because steel becomes so brittle in -50 degrees that they apparently broke off all the time.
>> No. 443518 Anonymous
29th April 2021
Thursday 11:11 pm
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>>443517

I have absolutely no knowledge of this but I remember my dad once saying something about HGVs having what essentially amount to heated blankets to put over the tanks and stop the diesel freezing up. Maybe there's something similar. Otherwise you'd have to keep it in a heated hanger or something and it'd take a ton of energy.
>> No. 443519 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 1:00 am
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>>443518

That's a good point, there are engine block heaters in a lot of cars sold in cold climates, I know my canadian mate has to plug his car in for a few months out of the year. Not quite a blanket, it's a built in water pump that heats the engine when it's off, but yeah, I don't know where you're plugging that in in Antarctica.

It's the icing of rotors that's more of an issue - if that happens in the air, everyone's dead. You can heat rotors and control surfaces, but if it's cold enough that won't matter.

I'm pretty interested now in how they manage it.
>> No. 443520 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 1:01 am
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>>443519

>built in water pump that heats the engine

And fuel tank, obviously.
>> No. 443521 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 3:16 am
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>>443519

The Antarctic research bases operate on the assumption that they'll be completely cut off for the duration of winter, primarily due to the extreme winds and the hazards of attempting to land on an improvised airstrip in total darkness. Antarctica only has one sunrise and one sunset per year.

As I understand it, the risk of icing is negligible because it's so extremely cold. The air is far too cold to sustain liquid water droplets, so any snow you encounter is bone dry and doesn't stick to the airframe.

Starting is assisted by Herman Nelson diesel heaters, which are ubiquitous on Antarctica; if they won't start, then the solution is a tarp and a smudge pot. Antarctic diesel is dewaxed and has a higher proportion of volatile hydrocarbons, so remains pourable down to -50°C.

Random trivia: Lockheed built an Antarctica-specific version of the C-130 with ski landing gear and rocket-assisted takeoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_LC-130
>> No. 443527 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 10:50 am
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>>443521

There isn't much snowfall in Antarctica to begin with. It is categorised as a true polar, because annual precipitation is significantly lower than some places like the American Southwest or many parts of the Sahara. The only reason why the Antarctic ice sheets are kilometres thick is that most snow there doesn't melt and accumulates over milleniae, the only runoff being in the form of slow-moving glaciers. That said, in some coastal regions, summer temperatures can be up to +15°C. So there's a possibility of wet snow that can cause problems to air traffic in those areas during transitional periods of autumn and spring.

Being at an Antarctic research base is going to do your head in require a lot of mental stability, because you're really going to be there for five or six months of total darkness, thousands of miles from civilisation, in an indoor space no bigger than a few hundred square metres, if that, and with the same ten or twenty people that you'll have to get on with the whole time. Even just going out for a walk can be life threatening in mid-winter.

I'm not sure what the policy is on crew members having a bonk there, but I imagine it happens. Why survive on one or two wanks a week for six months when you could just be having a casual shag with a fellow scientist.
>> No. 443528 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 10:54 am
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>>443527

You could build your own ice-cum-stalagmite.
>> No. 443531 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 11:32 am
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>>443527
>I'm not sure what the policy is on crew members having a bonk there, but I imagine it happens. Why survive on one or two wanks a week for six months when you could just be having a casual shag with a fellow scientist.

I hear it's actually a university-cum-commune atmosphere with lots of casual sex, well stocked bars and trips to different bases. During the summer that is when the continent is beset with young researchers who are all in good physical condition. A nerd Olympic village. +15°C as well, so I'll have the windows open and be mincing about in lycra shorts.

Sure winter and all you have is a skeleton crew of support staff which must get grim but then all you do is save money for the summer tourist season when you can have your pick of newbies. If the internet access improves and isn't monitored all the time I bet I could have quite a nice life so long as I don't doxx myself.
>> No. 443532 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 2:17 pm
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>>443531

I'm not sure if I entirely believe all that, or if you're just taking the piss but I want to believe it anyway.

Maybe I should try and sign up. I had a few semesters of ecology and geology as part oy my Mickey Mouse geography degree, maybe I could be of use down there.
>> No. 443533 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 2:31 pm
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>>443532
There's plenty of blogs of people having fun. This is just the first picture I found a google search:
https://mynameiskira.wordpress.com

It looks like a place where our resting actors might escape to only to end up spiralling deeper and deeper into communal alcoholism:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bartender-antarctica-south-pole
>> No. 443534 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 3:47 pm
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>>443533

Kind of really seems like the good life. Do a bit of science stuff a few hours a day, and then just enjoy the rest of the day with fit early 20s lasses, and have a shag in the supply room now and then.

You'd really have to hope though that you'll get on with those particular people. Being stuck for months inside a base compound with 20 people who are complete cunts is kind of a big risk. It's not going to be like The Island With Bear Grylls where you can just radio them from 30 minutes away to come and take you home because you're tired of all the cunt offs.
>> No. 443535 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 4:23 pm
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>>443534
I think the determining factor is the base itself, it's location and the level of financial commitment. The American bases and those with several bases nearby are probably alright but if you're stuck in some ramshackle base it could get painful. My research from watching an anime tell me that the research team will meet you beforehand to see if they like you anyway. Otherwise this happens:

>RAGE-TURNER Antarctic scientist ‘stabs colleague who kept telling him the endings of books he was reading on remote research station’

[I'd post the link but I think it's still a no-no website]
>> No. 443536 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 4:28 pm
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>> No. 443537 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 4:47 pm
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>>443535
Why are the Argie bases so close to ours?
>> No. 443538 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>443537

>Why are the Argie bases so close to ours?

Have they learned nothing.
>> No. 443539 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 12:38 am
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>>443538
>Belgrano II

Shame it isn't on the ice shelf, it could do with sinking.
>> No. 443559 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 10:19 pm
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Punch arseholes

Not being gay, I think it would be fantastic to do a casserole

>> No. 443576 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 2:14 am
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>>443559
Oh that bass line reminds me of this

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