UPDATE: Time to say screw it --> "There is now about 22 km of ice between the ship and open water."!!!

I'll bet they come back with some really good penguin recipes (BBQ penguin, pan-fried, smoked, etc.).

I cant find where it says that all four ships are trapped...Russian, French Chinese and Australian...as far as I can tell only the Russian ship is trapped.

The Chinese ship was able to get about 7 miles away from them but was forced to turn back the other ships are still at least two days away

It seems to be a planned event to keep our minds off the 60 degree December days.

They'll probably let the poor guys die just to spread the message.

If we say it's cold it's cold. That thermometer is a lie. Your trees blooming in Feb is a Lie.

ROFLMFAO!!!!

This is exactly what *I* was thinking!!!

So a pole shift HASN'T occurred?!?!

Sure seems to me that the weather around the globe is fucked up.....

Too warm for winter in the northern hemisphere....too cold for summer in the southern hemisphere.

Hmmmmm

The best part is that these people are global warming idiots and they were going there to document the environmental changes taking place down there.

[link to weaselzippers.us]

"The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

The metaphor just couldn’t be more fitting: desperate true believers of global warming/accelerating polar ice melt now find themselves trapped by thousands of square kilometers of summertime sea ice that wasn’t supposed to be there.

:f yeah:

Okay, so this situation is in the ANTARCTIC, but the subject line of the OP says ARCTIC, and other posters in the thread are confusing the two . . .

How can things so basic and so significant as the ANTARCTIC and the ARCTIC get confused, it's making me mental.

Look this action is all happening in the

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

near the SOUTH POLE

by ANTARCTICA

Not at the other end of the globe grrrrrrr.

Last Edited by Vision Thing on 12/28/2013 05:16 PM

I thought coal came from dead FOSSILS....as in dinosaurs, mastodons, etc.

If the boat is that badly stuck, it is not going anywhere. Even wooden ships such as that of Shackleton, lasted weeks before it finally broke up.

Another "Bread and Circus'" non story to distract us from the disasterious economy and state of the world generally.

The can easily rescue the stupid tourists and so-say scientists by helicopter. The question is, who's gonna pay?

thread titles here are like the end result in a game of chinese whispers

those who read them get traped.

Sweet! That's just too precious for words, haha. In that case I hope they get to stay there awhile.

Can't they use windmills or solar panels to melt the ice? How about HAARP? Never mind....too many carbon credits.

Maybe Al Gore & company can send some hot air down that way.

I was making a joke

The thread's name has changed according to an UPDATE...

We bezerkers gonna love this !!
Watch this :
[link to www.fark.com]

As it now seems the Chinese vessel Snow-Dragon has been captured by the ice also and is stuck position.
They are waiting for a FRENCH VESSEL to come to the rescue with the designation ASTROLABE ...

ASTRO - LAB - E !!!!!!

Seriously ???
The Russian vessel was out for an expedition to research METEORITES [Special Rare Ones!!]
And now the French are expected to arrive with their Astro-Lab-E ???!!!!!


snip from article:
The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was just six nautical miles away from the rescue, but now it's stuck in an Antarctica ice floe, too.

The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.

But it's likely the French vessel Astrolabe will also be slowed by the polar cap's extreme frigidity, Zhu said.

I know an astrolabe is a tool
But its etymology is verrrrry interesting and reveals a hidden meaning and code that links with the purpose of the Russian vessel !!!


Etymology of astrolabe
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
OED gives the translation "star-taker" for the English word "astrolabe" and traces it, through medieval Latin, to the Greek word astrolabos from astron "star" and lambanein "to take". In the medieval Islamic world the word "asturlab" (i.e. astrolabe) was given various etymologies. In Arabic texts the word is translated as "akhdh al-kawakib" (lit. "taking the stars") which corresponds to an interpretation of the Greek word. Al-Biruni quotes and criticizes the medieval scientist Hamzah al-Isfahani (de) who had stated: "asturlab is an arabization of this Persian phrase" (sitara yab, meaning "taker of the stars"). In medieval Islamic sources there is also a "fictional" and popular etymology of the words as "lines of lab". In this popular etymology "Lab" is a certain son of Idris (=Enoch). This etymology is mentioned by a 10th-century scientist called al-Qummi but rejected by al-Khwarizmi. "Lab" in Arabic also means "sun" and "black stony places" (cf. Dictionary).

Really !!????
Taker-of-stars = taker-of-meteorites !!!!!

But the second "fictional" meaning is also very interesting !!!
THE LINES OF ENOCH !!!
Thus about DNA and gene-lines !!!!

It also intrigues me that "LAB" is also SUN and BLACK STONY PLACES !!!

And isnt it intriguing that this expedition is planned right now, now that ISON has passed once and will pass a second time ?????

The Sow-Dragon was really in a hurry to reach the Russian research-vessel FIRST !!!
Snip from article:
The Aurora Australis out of Australia is two days from the Russian ship, its captain, Murray Doyle, told CNN on Friday.
China's State Oceanic Administration said the Xue Long sailed through an intense cyclone to reach the Akademik Shokalskiy sooner.


Could it be that China has invested in or interests in that Russian expedition ? And now the ODESSA-aligned French want to have a look and a grain of the "pot-with-gold" too ....
????

... rare meteorites [start-of-Universe material] ...
... DNA ...
... Gene-lines [Enoch = Annunaki !!!!!!] ...

* Enoch, son of Jared, Son of Mahalaleel, son of Cainan, son of Enos, Son of Seth, son of Adam the first "formed" man [by Annunaki scientists] *

** To me ODESSA is also Annunaki-aligned **
** Chinese are a different alien-breed **


xxxK

Then you'd be wrong.

Coal is carbon that was in the atmosphere long ago and locked up in vegetation.
That means it was once in the air, and that time was when the earth was at its most verdant and giants ruled the lands with huge plants and animals.

That's what AlGore is afraid will happen.

Nowadays controling carbon is used to control food production for the masses, that may allow them to survive the intended extermination.

Fuck em

The title of thread with "Artic" : sure really great joke of OP , he tests all who write here

IF you read the main article the ship is 1500miles too far away from any air base that could send rescuers. So it has to be done by ship. Or maybe even submarine

Maybe they can bring in a giant u boat and put some amps through the front end and melt a way through or something arcane

or just send some ops teams on the ice with 10 snow scooters packed with c4 charges and drill 5 hundred holes and just blow a giant crack open

Last Edited by Used Rubber on 12/28/2013 05:53 PM

vessel's captain very experienced in ice cruises in arctic and antarctic seas. he knows what he make and sure he's well controlling situation

Summertime? Didnt they just record the coldest temp recently down there at -138F

they have to bomb the ice and use HUGE quantities of explosives to win over the evil ice!


And they have to document it all and upload the video footage on youtube and vimeo ofcause

Last Edited by Used Rubber on 12/28/2013 06:03 PM

Near Vostok ...




xxxK

This has been a rediculous news story.
Rescue my ass.
These guys haven't even run out of good booze yet.
They have heat and fresh sheets.
F them

Yes. HMAS Canberra, LHD 02. Should be commissioned in 2014. Can they stay stuck until then? If they can stay stuck until 2015, we'll have two of them and HMAS Adelaide LHD 01 can help!

They ain't ice breakers but!


"The Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD), also known as a Landing Helicopter Dock, project will provide the Australian Defence Force with one of the most capable and sophisticated air-land-sea amphibious deployment systems in the world.

These 27,000 tonne ships will be able to land a force of over 2,000 personnel by helicopter and water craft, along with all their weapons, ammunition, vehicles and stores.

The first LHD, named HMAS Canberra, is due to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2014 and the second ship, HMAS Adelaide, is planned to commission in 2015."

[link to www.navy.gov.au]

[link to www.hmascanberra.com]

[link to www.naval-technology.com]

You're absolutely right, VT!!

It's stupefying that people don't know the difference between the Arctic (Northern Hemisphere) and Antarctica (Southern Hemisphere).

At -40 it is the same.

yes, for four-six weeks. but unfortunately now no one can say for sure whether they will have help for this time or not - the nature of the Antarctic often is very severe

you coped the test successfully

i can see them being stuck for quite some time, especially if the weather worsens./