A couple emails I sent to co-workers and to my mom
Dear Bev,
Can we take an office boondoggle to the new McDonald’s at Scott Base? Pretty Please!
Sincerely,
Travis
PS: I do realize we have little chance of survival in those regularly -100F temps, but I promise the McFlurry and playpen will be worth it
PPS: Does the lab have a gun we can take? As one commenter pointed out, there may not be people living in Antarctica , but the polar bears here can be rather dangerous
PPPS: Shouldn’t we be ranked as 2nd most dangerous, right behind Iraq
This is just hilarious. And the reason why you just can’t believe too much of what you read unless you know it’s a credible source.
Almost everything he said about Antarctica is wrong. From what I understand, there are several rapes a year here, which is a lot considering the population. The coldest I have seen it in all my time here was -30F with -65F windchill. Most certainly doesn’t regularly drop below -100F. I think the south pole maybe gets a few days like this. If exposed to those temps, you most certainly will not die what with all the gear you have to have down here We do have a hospital. Scott Base most certainly has no McDonald’s. I would say Antarctica may actually be the safest place on earth bc there are hardly any people, no traffic, few diseases, clean water, clean air. Sure the weather can be bad, but they have us over prepared, over-trained. They have incredible search and rescue and first response (unlike what this says), rigorous checkout procedures so people know exactly where you are supposed to be if you don’t show up, radios, back up radios, survival bags, etc. Also, the severely limit what you can do. You can die on a mountain just outside of Denver, but here, you can’t climb that mountain
Oh and I liked one person’s comment later on saying that Antarctica would be dangerous because of all the polar bears
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