I'm taking N-back to Antarctica!
akrasiac
support staff for the largest research base, McMurdo Station.
I've got brainworkshop equipped on my personal laptop. I'm going to
need it to keep my mental game up because my job and the environment
are physically grueling. It will also be a blast. I'm there for 2.5
months.
Pontus Granström
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γενβιρΟ
Enjoy your self!
P.S - don't forget to pass on your Brain Workshop wisdom to the polar
bears, it might just improve the kill success rate (not very good from
what I hear)!!
γενβιρΟ
understand that they have a few facilities there with different
purposes.
Take it easy.
On Dec 3, 5:42 am, akrasiac <bradford...@gmail.com> wrote:
akrasiac
γενβιρΟ, polar bears should be renamed north polar bears. They don't
exist in Antarctica. ( I didn't know this until recently) However,
there are plenty of stupid penguins who could benefit from
brainworkshop....or evolution.
Research by the NSF (at this station) consists of climate & ocean
systems, glaciology, biology and medicine..etc.
γενβιρΟ
would be interesting to learn why this is the case though (polar bears
only living in the circumpolar north and not the south). Just the way
of natural selection? Not sure myself. Feel free to fill in the blank
here if you like.
I've also never imagined the thought of dinosaurs _existing_ in the
Antarctica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dinosaurs_of_Antarctica
Followed by this though, I learned that during the Cretaceous, the
polar regions were more habitable due to Earth's average temperature
being a bit warmer than it is today (so it meant that dinosaurs found
it easier to live in these areas? Or at least some types?). As well as
this, I forgot that during this period also, the Earth's land areas
were much less distinct (closer together - Antarctica and Australia
pretty much joined with one another, as an example) than what they are
now, which would have made traveling easier I guess, and so, saying
that x dinosaur came from y 'country' (or continent) probably had less
meaning then, lol.
Anyway, that's enough digression.
At bare minimum I think I can say thanks for igniting my interest in
this region. Helps provide perspective to think of these distant
places that have an environment that completely contrasts the riff
raff of city life, at least for me.
On Dec 4, 3:48 am, akrasiac <bradford...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pontus, I'll post a blog once I get down there.
>
> ãåíâéñÏ, polar bears should be renamed north polar bears. They don't
> exist in Antarctica. ( I didn't know this until recently) However,
> there are plenty of stupid penguins who could benefit from
> brainworkshop....or evolution.
>
> Research by the NSF (at this station) consists of climate & ocean
> systems, glaciology, biology and medicine..etc.
>
γενβιρΟ
be found online so people can navigate the area freely?
The best I could find was the following video = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixebkl01uxQ
γενβιρΟ
the base (does not do this at all - just goes over different regions).
Some cool pictures and interesting information can be found from here
for those that are interested = http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/mcmurdo.jsp
On Dec 4, 3:14 pm, γενβιρΟ <dicone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> P.S - Does Mc Murdo station have a virtual 3D map of the area that can
> be found online so people can navigate the area freely?
>
> The best I could find was the following video =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixebkl01uxQ