The Antarctic mission that keeps on giving...

[Perd Hapley]

And now the rescue vessel is stuck in the ice global warming.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/10548690/Antarctic-rescue-ship-now-stuck-in-ice.html

[AJ Dual]

And none of the lamestream media is mentioning that the mission was originally to map ice disappearances due to global warming.

[Perd Hapley]

Including the article I linked to. 

The Russian-owned research ship left New Zealand on November 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.

It became trapped on December 24, 100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania.

During their time on the ice, passengers amused themselves with films, classes in knot tying, languages, yoga and photography, and rang in the New Year with dinner, drinks and a song composed about their adventure.

[Sergeant Bob]

Including the article I linked to. 

The Russian-owned research ship left New Zealand on November 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.

It became trapped on December 24, 100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania.

During their time on the ice, passengers amused themselves with films, classes in knot tying, languages, yoga and photography, and rang in the New Year with dinner, drinks and a song composed about their adventure.

I think they should have read about Ernest Shackleton, instead of commemorating his voyage.

[230RN]

Well, now, see, since cold is heavier --we all know that from the drafts coming in the open door -- all the planet's cold is heading down toward the South Pole by convection.

So what that means is we get a false reading of our planet's supposed temperature rise because most of the scientifical weather stations are on the planet's North side and all that there glacier melt water is going to end up frozen on the South Pole.

The global warming rescuers just didn't foresee that.

[Scout26]

Isn't it summer down there this time of year?

[TechMan]

Isn't it summer down there this time of year?

Yes, you are correct.

[Northwoods]

Isn't it summer down there this time of year?

Ayup.

[AmbulanceDriver]

Oh man.   I'm going to a game day with a bunch of friends, well some of the friends of friends are a little more on the liberal side............


I'm gonna have fun this afternoon... 

[gunsmith]

Isn't it summer down there this time of year?

Summertime,
And the water is freezing
Fish are frozen'
And the liberals are high

[zahc]

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11181470

Team originally pledged to plant 500 trees to offset carbon impact of their trip. Now they will have to plant at least an order of magnitude more.

[Gewehr98]

And now, the U.S. Coast Guard has been called in to bust 'em both out.   

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/04/world/antarctica-ships-stuck/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Sergeant Bob]

And now, the U.S. Coast Guard has been called in to bust 'em both out.   

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/04/world/antarctica-ships-stuck/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Once again, the U.S. is called upon to got someone else out of hot cold water.
I'm surprised the Russkies didn't send their nuke powered ice breaker there to help.

[TechMan]

From the Polar Star's website:

  POLAR STAR's three shafts are turned by either a diesel-electric or gas turbine power plant. Each shaft is connected to a 16-foot(4.9-meter) diameter, four-bladed, controllable-pitch propeller. The diesel-electric plant can produce 18,000 shaft horsepower(13,425 kilowatts) and the gas turbine plant a total of 75,000shaft horsepower (55,925 kilowatts). Along with POLAR STAR's sister ship POLAR SEA, she is one of the largest ships in the US Coast Guard and the world's most powerful non-nuclear ships.
    POLAR STAR has other unique engineering features designed to aid in icebreaking. An installed heeling system can rock the ship to prevent getting stuck in the ice. The system consists of three pairs of connected tanks on opposite sides of the ship. Pumps transfer a tank's contents (35,000 gallons, 133 kiloliters) to an opposing tank in 50 seconds and generate 24,000 foot-tons (64,800 kilowatt-seconds) of torque on the ship. That goes a long way in rocking POLAR STAR loose from any tight spots.
 


http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcpolarstar/history.asp

[Sergeant Bob]

From the Polar Star's website:

  POLAR STAR's three shafts are turned by either a diesel-electric or gas turbine power plant. Each shaft is connected to a 16-foot(4.9-meter) diameter, four-bladed, controllable-pitch propeller. The diesel-electric plant can produce 18,000 shaft horsepower(13,425 kilowatts) and the gas turbine plant a total of 75,000shaft horsepower (55,925 kilowatts). Along with POLAR STAR's sister ship POLAR SEA, she is one of the largest ships in the US Coast Guard and the world's most powerful non-nuclear ships.
    POLAR STAR has other unique engineering features designed to aid in icebreaking. An installed heeling system can rock the ship to prevent getting stuck in the ice. The system consists of three pairs of connected tanks on opposite sides of the ship. Pumps transfer a tank's contents (35,000 gallons, 133 kiloliters) to an opposing tank in 50 seconds and generate 24,000 foot-tons (64,800 kilowatt-seconds) of torque on the ship. That goes a long way in rocking POLAR STAR loose from any tight spots.
 


http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcpolarstar/history.asp

That ship is pretty frakking impressive!

[French G.]

Good thing I don't drive that ship. I'd test run the heeling system everyday around chow time, see if I couldn't get the pitching out of sync with the prevailing sea, just to see who was still hungry.

[Ben]

Good thing I don't drive that ship. I'd test run the heeling system everyday around chow time, see if I couldn't get the pitching out of sync with the prevailing sea, just to see who was still hungry.

You are an evil, evil man.

[Hawkmoon]

I'm still wondering why they don't just drop some small bunker-buster type bomblets along the ships' paths and bust the ice that way.

[TechMan]

I'm still wondering why they don't just drop some small bunker-buster type bomblets along the ships' paths and bust the ice that way.

Do you know how un-green that is?

[Scout26]

Good thing I don't drive that ship. I'd test run the heeling system everyday around chow time, see if I couldn't get the pitching out of sync with the prevailing sea, just to see who was still hungry.

I'm still wondering why they don't just drop some small bunker-buster type bomblets along the ships' paths and bust the ice that way.

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletters.  



Let me just leave this here.

[dogmush]

I'm still wondering why they don't just drop some small bunker-buster type bomblets along the ships' paths and bust the ice that way.

The bombs would be worth more  the so and it's passengers?  What's the exchange rate for hippie?

Related note: No one forced these yahoos to go looking for ice. I hope someone is tallying a bill for rescue. I know that I'm not thrilled US federal funds are being used for SAR in Antarctica.

[TechMan]

The bombs would be worth more  the so and it's passengers?  What's the exchange rate for hippie?

Related note: No one forced these yahoos to go looking for ice. I hope someone is tallying a bill for rescue. I know that I'm not thrilled US federal funds are being used for SAR in Antarctica.

Sorry, all the hippies got rescued and are no longer trapped there.

[dogmush]

Sorry, all the hippies got rescued and are no longer trapped there.

Well now I'm just.......sad.

[p12]

Sorry, all the hippies got rescued and are no longer trapped there.

They got rescued from one stranded ship and are now stuck on another stranded ship. 

Where's the double hippy facepalm smiley when you need it.  :facepalm:That will suffice.

[bedlamite]

They got rescued from one stranded ship and are now stuck on another stranded ship. 

Where's the double hippy facepalm smiley when you need it.  :facepalm:That will suffice.