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September 2, 2008 5:09 PM Subscribe
For the first time in human history, the North Pole can now be circumnavigated. Images gathered by NASA show that the North-west passage opened last weekend and that the last blockage on the north-eastern one – a tongue of ice stretching down to Russia across Siberia's Laptev Sea – dissolved a few days later. Already, shipping companies are looking forward to exploiting the new passageway, with the Beluga Group in Germany announcing that it will sail the north-east passage to Japan next year. "It's very different from in the past when you had a low year and you tended to rebound. We haven't been doing that anymore," says Julienne Stroeve, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado. Of course, some are more immediately effected than others.
This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a very nice post but needs to go in the thread from a few days ago. -- jessamyn
God damn it, just saw this is a double, more or less.
My apologies for not utilizing the search function.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:12 PM on September 2, 2008
My apologies for not utilizing the search function.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:12 PM on September 2, 2008
This is a nice expansion on the FPP from a few days ago, but I suspect you'll be told to move this over there.
posted by chudmonkey at 5:13 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by chudmonkey at 5:13 PM on September 2, 2008
Good post though.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 5:14 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by Samuel Farrow at 5:14 PM on September 2, 2008
Gone.
posted by homunculus at 5:18 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by homunculus at 5:18 PM on September 2, 2008
I'm more partial to the Manx, or the Mexian Hairless, because I feel sorry for them. Not that I'd ever own one of those ugly critters.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:27 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:27 PM on September 2, 2008
Damn, I was going to make a Stan Rogers joke too. Comment double!
posted by GuyZero at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by GuyZero at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008
In a world where your favorite cat is a freak of nature.......
posted by longsleeves at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by longsleeves at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
The ice cap is trying to beat James Brown's record for most number of deaths. And circumnavigations.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 5:33 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 5:33 PM on September 2, 2008
My favorite cat is Kung Pao Siberian Tiger, as they have the fat reserves to make for a tasty... oh wait, global warming isn't that bad yet? Nevermind, I'll post on this later.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:37 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:37 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
Don LaFontaine is still ahead of the ice cap for double-and-triple-posts, and since he was considered by many The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz after James Brown, it's only appropriate.
posted by wendell at 5:54 PM on September 2, 2008
posted by wendell at 5:54 PM on September 2, 2008
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