hooligan wrote:
It's not just the RV's. Those scientists that went to the Antarctic to study the effect of global warming on sea ice are still stuck in the ice, and may be there until spring..
Scientists went down to study climate change, my foot- that's an "ECOTOURISM" ship, mostly. That whole "scientific expedition" thing became the story only after the ship got stuck in the ice.
Here quoting from one of the first stories of This Terrible Disaster (
link๐Antarctic Tourist Ship Trapped in the Ice wrote:
On board the Akademic Shokalskiy are scientists from the University of NSW, a journalist from the Guardian and dozens of tourists who have paid to be part of the recreation of Mawsonโs expedition.
They all signed up based on this come-on:
Recreate the Mawson Expedition, whatever that was.
Folks with more money than brains, paying to go along while somebody takes temperature readings down in the Arctic, or does any scientific thing at all while they're aboard- it's the latest thing!
My fondest hope is that they'll stay out there until breakup along about May or so, or better yet: walk out just like that REAL Arctic explorer Shackleton did.
I s'pose that won't happen, since the supply of white wine couldn't possibly hold out that long...:B
" Not every mind that wanders is lost. " With apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien
