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"Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" |
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31 Dec 2003 12:28:20 AM |
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Shackleton |
PBS played the Nova: Shackleton episode again tonight.
What a truely rousing inspirational story.
About 30 men set off to explore Antarctica in
about 1914. Things go wrong and they are stranded.
After an incredible year and a half ordeal
in the Antarctic: living on ice flows, rowing through
ice flows, camping on frozen rocky beaches, navigating
hundreds of miles of stormy fridged seas in
a 20 foot boat, and hiking across mountains and
glaciers, they all survived.
Shackleton and his men showed absolutely
amazing resolution, fortitude, and endurance.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
-Ron
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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| Title: Re: Shackleton |
01 Jan 2004 05:04:16 AM |
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"Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" <rbaker4@msnn.com> wrote in message news:<80uIb.33533$Vs3.6314@twister.socal.rr.com>...
PBS played the Nova: Shackleton episode again tonight.
What a truely rousing inspirational story.
About 30 men set off to explore Antarctica in
about 1914. Things go wrong and they are stranded.
After an incredible year and a half ordeal
in the Antarctic: living on ice flows, rowing through
ice flows, camping on frozen rocky beaches, navigating
hundreds of miles of stormy fridged seas in
a 20 foot boat, and hiking across mountains and
glaciers, they all survived.
Shackleton and his men showed absolutely
amazing resolution, fortitude, and endurance.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
-Ron
Sorry to be unkind, but the only difference between
Shackleton and Scott is that one survived.
People like this along with the climbers in New Zealand
and the snowboarders in the US (both lost, injured, or
killed this past week) are prime examples of arrogance
and poor planning. Iraq is another prime example.
I will never understand the willingness of people to do
things with no solid plan for safety of how to get out
alive, just so they can claim to be first.
Being a firefighter, policeman or soldier is wholly
different: there, people go in knowing they might be
killed but do it to save or protect others. But to do
something strictly for fame and ego is something I will
never understand.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Mekkala" |
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| Title: Re: Shackleton |
31 Dec 2003 10:05:10 AM |
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On 31 Dec 2003, "Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" <rbaker4@msnn.com> screwed
up his face, groaned, pushed hard, and farted out the following message
in news:80uIb.33533$Vs3.6314@twister.socal.rr.com:
PBS played the Nova: Shackleton episode again tonight.
What a truely rousing inspirational story.
About 30 men set off to explore Antarctica in
about 1914. Things go wrong and they are stranded.
After an incredible year and a half ordeal
in the Antarctic: living on ice flows, rowing through
ice flows, camping on frozen rocky beaches, navigating
hundreds of miles of stormy fridged seas in
a 20 foot boat, and hiking across mountains and
glaciers, they all survived.
Shackleton and his men showed absolutely
amazing resolution, fortitude, and endurance.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
-Ron
I've always greatly admired Shackleton. The feat of surviving as they
did under those conditions was virtually superhuman, and gives great
credit to the man's ability as a leader, especially considering that all
their lives hung on a thread many times over the course of that
expedition. They may not have done much exploring, but they learned a
lot about surviving in Antarctic conditions.
--
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"Atheism is ... the bed-rock of sanity in a world of madness."
--Emmett F. Fields
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: Shackleton |
31 Dec 2003 03:54:45 PM |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:28:20 GMT, "Ron Baker, Pluralitas!"
<rbaker4@msnn.com> wrote:
PBS played the Nova: Shackleton episode again tonight.
What a truely rousing inspirational story.
About 30 men set off to explore Antarctica in
about 1914. Things go wrong and they are stranded.
After an incredible year and a half ordeal
in the Antarctic: living on ice flows, rowing through
ice flows, camping on frozen rocky beaches, navigating
hundreds of miles of stormy fridged seas in
a 20 foot boat, and hiking across mountains and
glaciers, they all survived.
Shackleton and his men showed absolutely
amazing resolution, fortitude, and endurance.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
One of the greatest, if not *the* greatest Irishman.
JPG
-Ron
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