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South Pole Signage

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Re: South Pole Signage

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Regarding the panini press sign, let me not be the one to start the 'are hamburgers sandwiches' debate here on HN

Simply labeling it as a "panini press" is a step in the right direction; perhaps people mistake it for a George Foreman Grill!

(The whole idea of the George Foreman Grill was that you smash something really fatty, and then the fats liquefy and drip out of the food and down the grill, and you don't eat them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the "fat is bad" days.)

Re: South Pole Signage

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Gravity station http://southpolestation.com/trivia/00s/gravityvault.html

The plate upon which is occassionally enthroned a LaCoste and Romberg gravity meter.

(according to page 17 of

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/65... )

https://www.aseg.org.au/equipment-museum/lacoste-and-romberg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_LaCoste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravimetry

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