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  • We have scientists in antarctica & the arctic, and we want them audio blogging via satellite phones to a site hosted by us. is this a big no-no?

    Scripting News for 6/25/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • There is no city in antarctica, “city: not a village or hamlet” Dragonfly’s can live up to 14 days, I should know, forth grade project Crocodiles use stones to digest, and they are pebbles, it is also believed that it can help them “remain” on the bottem of a riverbed.

    21 Amazing Facts About Nintendo 2006

  • When Gore and others speak of polar ice caps melting, when in fact neither ice cap is melting and antarctica is adding ice mass, that is hysteria.

    Wonk Room » Mike Pence Says USCAP Businesses Should ‘Keep Their Powder Dry’ 2009

  • EVERYONE DIES. and they never found the body of a hot chick, so .... ugh this is just a bad idea. the whole thing will be a bad idea and this is the first mistake. thinking they need to cast a hot doctor whos too young to even have a degree in the first place, who would willingly live in antarctica when she could be getting paid to look beautiful in on tropical beaches.

    Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton to star in Matthijs Van Heijningen’s THE THING – Collider.com 2010

  • He has a specific interest in the haptophyte Phaeocystis antarctica, its morphological forms, and its role in the regional ecology and oceanography.

    Contributor: Walker Smith 2010

  • The most prudent thing to do with this lot is to send them all on the next ship to British antarctica.

    Which minister has impressed you the most? 2008

  • The ice near to the whaling station was used as a landing strip by Hubert Wilkins for the first flights over antarctica in 1928.

    Deception Island 2009

  • Antarctica's two flowering plant species, the Antarctic Hair Grass ( '' Deschampsia antarctica '') and Antarctic Pearlwart ( '' Colobanthus quitensis '') are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula.

    Antarctic Peninsula 2009

  • Let me get this strait: Oil fields around the world are in terminal decline, with no new large discoveries besides the caspian and all potential discoveries in ultraexpensive places like ultradeepwater or some frozen hellhole like antarctica or the frozen wastes of Siberia.

    Oil Company Speculators, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The principal species in the forests include southern beech Nothofagus antarctica, N. pumilio (the most abundant), N. betuloides (at its southernmost limit), and N. dombeyi (which replaces N. betuloides from 48°S); other typical species are Fuchsia magellanica, Winter's bark Drimys winteri, Ribes magellanicus, Berberis buxifolia, Pernettya mucronata, Philesia buxifolia, and Guaytecas Islands cypress Pilgerodendron uviferum (R).

    Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina 2009

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