Antarctica like you've never seen it before • Hacker News Board

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by tokenadult » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 7:46 PM UTC

base wrote: post #2

The project page http://antarctica.localwiki.org/ seems to be down.

I just got a 503 error message.

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by Lapsa » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 8:06 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #8

Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"

got exact same question

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by throwaway54-762 » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

sharkweek wrote: post #9

Unrelated, but one of my favorite things about Antarctica is a terribly irreverent and incredibly amusing activity of many temporary residents in the area -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club

Wikipedia claims they run naked, but one of the linked articles[0] says that they actually wear boots. I was wondering how they prevented frostbite...

[0]: http://antarcticnet.tripod.com/300club.html

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by D3 » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

xbryanx wrote: post #8

Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"

They probably mean the island most seen in dreams by the inhabitants of that station.

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by mxfh » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 11:50 PM UTC

Well, there was this hack by MapBox

http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica

No high-res satellite imagery though.

Just don't forget to visit the McMurdo Dry Valleys

https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&spn=0....

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by tmj » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 4:39 AM UTC

Wow, what an interesting thing to stumble across. I happen to work for the Polar Geospatial Center and deal with satellite imagery and map-making for both poles all the time. In fact, several of our staff are in the process of deploying to McMurdo where they support the US mission with maps and other GIS related activities. One staffer, Brad Herried, shot most of the Google Streetview material from Antarctica. Nice to see it's appreciated!

Re: Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Post by s_henry_paulson » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 2:53 PM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #10

xbryanx wrote: post #8

Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"

Oddly enough, this very blog post is the only Google result I get for the quoted phrase. Anyway, the thing looks inkblotty and fractally enough that I could plausibly mistake any frosty island for it in a dream. Probably related to the fact that we regularly have déjà vu in places of which (we think) we’ve dreamt. Or at least I do.

I got one layer deeper. I googled the same thing, but I ended up here back at HN because this very conversation has already been indexed and is now a top search result.