A blog from a science nut, computer geek, sometimes philosopher, and a human. Based out of Denver, with a love of Antarctica, I seem to wander the world so who knows where I'll be in 6 months.
So I just learned that today we have 12,000 pounds of package mail on the C-17 coming down today! It was delayed by nearly a week and people are going spastic around here waiting for our mail! All the mail that we missed, is finally coming in! yea. Some of us have been waiting 7 … Read more
Merry Christmas to everyone at home! Our Christmas was yesterday to me, so here’s a few presents for you today. For us here was a beautiful day topped off by watching the latest Harry Potter.Oh and we haven’t gotten any packages yet, but hopefully today or tomorrow they’ll get in. This is in addition to … Read more
Let’s see the last update you had was about the LDB Balloon Launch and my delirium at being up for 24 hours. Well then it’s been about a week and we’ve got some news to update on. First while I’ve mentioned the first LDB launch that we got footage of. Two days ago (on my … Read more
And I was there with an HD video camera on top of ob hill shooting it! To bad it launched at 5am this morning, especially considering we thought it was going to up at 6pm, then 10pm, then 12pm-1am, then… Oy! Ralph and I, oh wait, Ralph is one of 2 Raytheon employees who’s supposed … Read more
So I put the ozone podcast up earlier, but I have a new addition to it. There’s a 116mb video of the Ozone Lecture Dr Mercer made about the annual ozone hole over the Antarctic, it should make more sense with the slides and videos. http://www.wonderfullyrich.net/Photos/theice/60southvideos.html#Ozone Rich
According to the donut of misery I’ve been here for 10 week which really doesn’t seem that long. Another stat that you can see is that I’m supposed to be here for another 10 weeks or so, and I’ll be that’s going to fly by. This though isn’t the reason I’m mention it, rather I … Read more
The longer I’m here the more about this place I want to learn. I was at Hut 10 for the first time a few weeks ago and ran into some interesting thoughts. (Hut 10 is like a cabin that can be signed up for and used for work or personal parties, or just some time … Read more
Today is another a beautiful day in paradise. Low winds and high temps (+32 ambient) with no clouds for hundreds of miles. Should be a nice mud pit later today after the ice on the roads unfreezes. Might even be a good day to wander out to Willy (Williams Field) which is where they just … Read more
First off a Weather update. We had a minor storm walk through and change this place from being a warm mud pit to being something that you’d think Christmas should look like, especially with the Christmas lights and decorations going up everywhere. Blowing snow turned the outlying areas into Condition 2 for a while, but … Read more