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rickford66

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14. I saw the drilling for some of those cores in 1969 at Byrd Station.

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Tue Sep 26, 2017, 02:44 PM

Sep 2017

Had some 2,000 year-old ice in my rum and coke in the EM club. No data was ruined. There were damaged discarded cores. Meanwhile cracks appeared in the permanent ice shelf at McMurdo. Today GOOGLE Earth shows open water in the Summer where we drove and landing strips were maintained.

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wonder why they don't carefully bust that up into smaller pieces?scare off wildlife & set afew bangs Sunlei Sep 2017 #1

Kind of like nuking an asteroid TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #4

they can tow the pieces out where the polar bears can't find any bergs to rest and are drowning Sunlei Sep 2017 #6

This is Antarctica, only penguins no polar bears. TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #8

oh, good penguins should be happy with a floating island :) they shouldn't bust it up in that case! Sunlei Sep 2017 #10

Totally impractical PJMcK Sep 2017 #12

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Only one reason Botany Sep 2017 #3

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You mean like the private servers used by Ivanka, Jared, and others? Botany Sep 2017 #7

Yeah, them! TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #9

I am sitting 2 miles from OSU's Polar Studies Institute where they have millions of .... Botany Sep 2017 #11

I saw the drilling for some of those cores in 1969 at Byrd Station. rickford66 Sep 2017 #14

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