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You didn't want to start another Affs neighborhood or B-ears bunker or Bernies hideaway or Rickys refuse or What's the story?
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They mighta made it had they left 5,000 years earlier.
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No, I was referring to your apparent sloth in that regard.
I have four dogs, a cat, five hens and a silky black cock.
Never had a sloth.
Wouldnt even know what to feed it.
Dont try and weasel out.
You gave me this thread, and I aint givin it back.
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Then I guess you deserve to be lazy once in awhile.
Did it snow in Egypt this year too?
This global warming shit is out of control.
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Is that what Antartica means nutterese?
Yur only slur'n a little.
Have another pull off the jug, swabby.
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Sorry, it should have read, "in nutterese" . . . you mistake Antartica for Egypt and I'm the inebriated one?
Watching a piece about fat tire snow biking in Alaska, the local guide said “we used to x-country ski, but now with the lower snowpacks every year, it’s easy and fun to do this.” You see, if you’re not a closed-minded idiot, not only do you believe in science, but you just listen and look when people who live in such places point that out.
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For some reason nutters will argue like they are being paid to do so on certain subjects . . . like some argued the science behind linking tobacco use and cancer. Are these people getting paid?
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#Fakestoryfromafakeattorney
That is a very valid question.....
If those are truly man made pyramids residing in Antarctica and not some
naturally occurring anomaly, then we have " more " tangible proof that civilizations
existed that had far more technology than we are presently aware of...
Won't discount that they could be of Alien origin....but the data to support that type
of hypothesis has not been logically presented as of yet.
Here's another view...
Multi Sport
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And if you listen and learn you will understand what a climate cycle is.
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Indoctrinated Liberals will never listen....
I don't even talk about some factual TRUTHS with
certain Radical Liberals I do have as friends....
My dogs are smarter....
Ernest Shackleton’s great grandson completes mission 100 years later
Patrick Bergel is the great-grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Antarctic explorer who is best known for leading the ‘Endurance’ expedition of 1914-16.
Shackleton planned to cross the frozen continent via the South Pole but his ship was trapped in the ice; he later left to find help, and eventually returned to rescue the entire crew.
“Surrounded by nothingness, I journeyed across Antarctica for 30 days,” said Patrick Bergel about his adventure driving a modified Hyundai Santa Fe to the ends of the earth in a new short film.
Bergel, 46, retraced his great grandfather’s 3,500-mile expedition to commemorate Shackleton’s heroic expedition from Union Glacier near the Antarctic Peninsula to the South Pole, to Leverett Glacier, across the Ross Ice Shelf, and finishing at McMurdo Sound.
“Finally, I reached the place my great-grandfather dreamed of, a hundred years ago,” said Bergel, a tech entrepreneur from London, about his own historic journey in a Hyundai crossover.
Hyundai also made the history books last December when the slightly modified, 2.2-liter diesel Santa Fe became the first passenger vehicle ever to be driven across the continent of Antarctica and back again.
The Santa Fe was modified to fit giant low-pressure tires for the 30-day expedition over icy terrain, floating ice caps, and driving conditions with -18-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Hyundai says the Santa Fe’s body was raised with new sub-frames — “suspension and gears were fitted inside the wheel hubs to cope with the different forces and the need to turn more slowly to run at the same speed.”
Aside from that, the Santa Fe’s fuel tank capacity was increased and converted to run on Jet A-1 fuel — apparently, it’s the only fuel available on the continent — and a pre-heater was installed to keep the fuel from freezing.
The names of Shackleton’s original crew were etched into the paint of the Hyundai by family ancestors, along with a quote by the explorer himself on the hood that read, “I shall keep on going old man, till one day I shall not come back.”
“The journey was incredible and the car was a pleasure to drive. Sometimes it felt less like driving and more like sailing across the snow. It was a proper expedition with a challenge to accomplish that nobody else had done before,” said Bergel in a statement.
“It was about endurance not speed — we only averaged only 17 mph — and success was about how we and the car handled it. I’m very reluctant to make direct comparisons between what my great grandfather did and what we’ve done recently. But it is quite something to have been the first to do this in a wheeled vehicle.”
Source: Hyundai
Patrick Bergel is the great-grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Antarctic explorer who is best known for leading the ‘Endurance’ expedition of 1914-16.
Shackleton planned to cross the frozen continent via the South Pole but his ship was trapped in the ice; he later left to find help, and eventually returned to rescue the entire crew.
“Surrounded by nothingness, I journeyed across Antarctica for 30 days,” said Patrick Bergel about his adventure driving a modified Hyundai Santa Fe to the ends of the earth in a new short film.
Bergel, 46, retraced his great grandfather’s 3,500-mile expedition to commemorate Shackleton’s heroic expedition from Union Glacier near the Antarctic Peninsula to the South Pole, to Leverett Glacier, across the Ross Ice Shelf, and finishing at McMurdo Sound.
“Finally, I reached the place my great-grandfather dreamed of, a hundred years ago,” said Bergel, a tech entrepreneur from London, about his own historic journey in a Hyundai crossover.
Hyundai also made the history books last December when the slightly modified, 2.2-liter diesel Santa Fe became the first passenger vehicle ever to be driven across the continent of Antarctica and back again.
The Santa Fe was modified to fit giant low-pressure tires for the 30-day expedition over icy terrain, floating ice caps, and driving conditions with -18-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Hyundai says the Santa Fe’s body was raised with new sub-frames — “suspension and gears were fitted inside the wheel hubs to cope with the different forces and the need to turn more slowly to run at the same speed.”
Aside from that, the Santa Fe’s fuel tank capacity was increased and converted to run on Jet A-1 fuel — apparently, it’s the only fuel available on the continent — and a pre-heater was installed to keep the fuel from freezing.
The names of Shackleton’s original crew were etched into the paint of the Hyundai by family ancestors, along with a quote by the explorer himself on the hood that read, “I shall keep on going old man, till one day I shall not come back.”
“The journey was incredible and the car was a pleasure to drive. Sometimes it felt less like driving and more like sailing across the snow. It was a proper expedition with a challenge to accomplish that nobody else had done before,” said Bergel in a statement.
“It was about endurance not speed — we only averaged only 17 mph — and success was about how we and the car handled it. I’m very reluctant to make direct comparisons between what my great grandfather did and what we’ve done recently. But it is quite something to have been the first to do this in a wheeled vehicle.”
Source: Hyundai