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Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won’t see sun for six months

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  Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won’t see sun for six months Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 10:08 -0500
    Re: Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won’t see sun for six months jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-21 17:35 +0000
    Re: Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won't see sun for six months noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 11:34 -0700
    Re: Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won't see sun for six months Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-03-21 14:37 -0700

#564139 — Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won’t see sun for six months

Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won’t see sun for six months
> http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/goodnight-antarctica-researchers-wont-see-sun-for-six-months/


> On Sunday, NOAA posted a haunting photo of the last sunset at the
> research station, where a few dozen researchers will spend the next
> six months in darkness. It's so cold, with temperatures as low as
> -100 degrees Fahrenheit, that airplanes will not return to the site
> until October at the earliest.
>
> But the experience is not without its amusements. As the Atlantic
> described in a 2015 article, many South Pole winter denizens will
> attempt to join the 300 Club, in which one enjoys a 200-degree sauna
> and then streaks naked to the South Pole itself in -100 degree
> conditions. Most participants wear nothing but a scarf.
>
> Why would these Pole souls endure it at all? Because there is much
> good science to be done, from astronomy to atmospheric science. The
> polar station, with its exceptionally clean air, has maintained
> long-term records of both carbon dioxide and ozone, helping
> scientists to better understand climate change and ozone depletion.
>


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won?t see sun for six months

Someone has to do something about this immediately!!

Think of the children!!

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#564222 — Re: Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won't see sun for six months

gOOdmorning, ArcticA

> > Why would these Pole souls endure it at all? Because there is much
> > good science to be done, from astronomy to atmospheric science. The
> > polar station, with its exceptionally clean air, has maintained
> > long-term records of both carbon dioxide and ozone, helping
> > scientists to better understand climate change and ozone depletion.
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
> to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
> community, and physics-related social issues.

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#564277 — Re: Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won't see sun for six months

On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 8:08:04 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Goodnight, Antarctica: Researchers won't see sun for six months
> > http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/goodnight-antarctica-researchers-wont-see-sun-for-six-months/
> 
> 
> > On Sunday, NOAA posted a haunting photo of the last sunset at the
> > research station, where a few dozen researchers will spend the next
> > six months in darkness. It's so cold, with temperatures as low as
> > -100 degrees Fahrenheit, that airplanes will not return to the site
> > until October at the earliest.


So what else is new?  It is Antarctica!

Double-A

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