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....
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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
My bad.
I thought you were talking about Antarctica.
"Antartica" must be another continent, on another planet.
Repeat after me. “Science informs us that man has substantially contributed to significant climate change which is melting polar icecaps and causing oceans to rise.”
Multi Sport
DA
Oh yea, I forgot you have a closed mind. It will change when the scientist tell you to change it.
That is not science.
Its something else.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Thanks E.
No. Simple science. Like you know, that other stuff you don’t believe in, like evolution, etc.
Small e.
Show me the proof.
Simple.
You mean when scientists inform us that they were incorrect about man-made climate change? That’s correct, I will change my mind at that time.
Do you not believe in evolution either?
I’ve noticed that our nation’s decline in its standing in education among nations of the world directly correlates to the rise in Republican leaders not believing in science. Have you noticed that too? I would do a chart but you’d call it “fake news.”
That’s too dumb to give a response.
Which scientists are the true scientists?
Give it a try.
“True” scientists? Don’t know. But pretty much all scientists, worldwide, agree on the issue. Just like they agree on evolution. Or such things as the existence of atoms, the earth revolving around the sun, gravity being a magnetic force, etc.
Are you saying that you believe "climate science" is settled in the same way that gravitational science is settled?
Hüsker Dü
DA
Really, this whole thing once again? What is this like the 4th or 5th time we've been down this same exact line of intended obfuscation of yours?
Its not my rabbit hole.
Im not the guy who equates the merits of AGW with the solid scientific foundation of gravity.
He is a perfect symbol of our nation’s educational decline. Just look at our country’s standing in world education and what happened to it when leaders sponsored by big energy, as well as the Christian Right, started convincing people that evolution and climate change aren’t real. We slid right down the table.
You have yet to address the issue.
Attempting to belittle me does nothing to prove AGW.
Bruddah IZ
DA
A piece? LMAO!