Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth

LMCBoy writes "Dome A is the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, and it has never been reached by humans. It is thought to be the coldest place on earth, and is certainly among the most remote. Yesterday, a team of Chinese explorers set out from Fremantle, Australia to reach Dome A and set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years. The team is expected to arrive at Dome A in early 2005."

Monitoring, huh?

[mg2]

to set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years

Day 1: Cold
Day 2: Cold
...

good for them

[wrinkledshirt]

Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth

Let me know when they find my girlfriend's heart.

First thing that came to mind

[Klowner]

when reading this headline..

Inside Martha Stewart's Pants..

Lies!

[McBeer]

My liquid nitrogen cooled case is the coldest place on earth!

No.

[wankledot]

"They will also test whether it is suitable for human beings to live in the harsh environment there," he said.

No, it's not.

Next question?

Re:good for them

[Anonymous Coward]

They said coldest place, not far off imaginary place.

Re:FUCK ALL FAGS

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess: red state, right?

Re:Question

[addaon]

"the temperature plummets to around minus 90 degrees Celsius"... of course, we don't know how that measurement was made...

Re:good for them

[Gentlewhisper]

Despite a common misconception of the ignorant common folk, love comes from the brain. Heart has nothing to do with it. Its just a strong muscle to pump your blood.

Wrong!

Love comes from the... 2nd head!

Coldest place on earth?

[strider44]

To an Australian living in Sydney, Fremantle is the coldest place on earth!

Screw that

[rsilvergun]

if they can survive 3 weeks in Jersey they can take anything else the Universe can dish out.

What, this far into the thread and you weren't expecting cracks about Jersey?

Re:good for them

[wrinkledshirt]

Ha ha. I guess if a slashdotter has a girlfriend, then the coldest place right now must be Hell.

Re:Air-Drop easier?

[Anonymous Coward]

Silly, parachutes don't work when they're upside down!

Re:Air-Drop easier?

[lachlan76]

Because then it would slide down the mountain.

Re:Air-Drop easier?

[Anonymous Coward]

What we need to do is get there first, establish a secret base there and be there when they show up. Maybe offer em a cup of hot chocolate or something.

Re:Monitoring, huh?

[mog007]

Actully, Antarctica is the second coldest place on Earth, the first being my bed! HA! HA! HA!

Oh... I made myself sad.

Last Log Entry

[Tablizer]

"Dear diar..r..r..r..ry I am fucking cold and sh..sh..shivering my a

Re:I think I know what they'll find there

[Infinity Salad]

I thought it would be Superman's Fortress of Solitude...

Old anecdotal story but a good one...

[WIAKywbfatw]

An exam question on Momentum, Heat and Mass transfer: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Justify your argument.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant.

One student however wrote the following:

First, we must postulate that if souls exist they must have mass. If they do then a mole of soles can have mass. So at what rate are souls entering Hell and at what rate are they leaving?

Making the assumptions that once in Hell a soul cannot leave. Therefore no souls are leaving.

To determine how many are entering we must look at the different religions.

Some religions state that if you are not a member of their religion you will go to Hell.

Because there is more than one religion that states this and no one is a member of one of more religion we can postulate that all people, and therefore all souls, go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are we can assume that the number of souls in Hell are increasing exponentially.

Now look at the rate of change of volume in hell.

Boyle's law states that in order for the temperature and pressure to say the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.

Case 1: If Hell is expanding at a rate slower than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell lets loose.

Case 2: If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature ad pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate by Theresa Banyan during my first year " it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you" and taking into account I have not had sexual relations with her, Case 2 cannot be correct.

Thus Hell is exothermic- QED!

Re:Good for China!

[Tablizer]

That's okay. If China becomes too much like the Soviet Union, just close down all our WalMarts and Toys-R-Us's and their economy would tank like a lead iceberg.

Re:Lies!

[Tablizer]

My liquid nitrogen cooled case is the coldest place on earth!

So, just how did you fit the Chinese in there?

No cooling needed!

[nilbog]

oh man I bet you could overclock like crazy down there!

Re:good for them

[Tablizer]

Let me know when they find my girlfriend's heart.

Wow! A fellow slashdotter with a girlfriend? That's gotta be more momentus than visiting the south pole.

They should have a National Geographic special on it: The first geek ever observed reproducing sexually (see the April issue for asexual geek reproduction....Warning: not for the faint of heart).

Re:This voyage isn't a joke, it's serious stuff...

[cjsnell]

The Chinese aren't going there as a big PR exercise. If you haven't noticed, the Chinese aren't big on grand, meaningless showboating

They aren't big on big on grand, meaningless showboating [sinodefence.com], huh?

(Yes, those are people back there)

Re:Monitoring, huh?

[Shados]

Meh...this is going to hurt my karma...but I can't help it... Day 5: ??? Day 6: Profit.. ::sighs:: I feel like such a sheep having written this...

Re:Monitoring, huh?

[Lumpy]

day 3: There has been a fault in explorer.exe your system has become unstable. press Ctl-alt-Del to reboot.

day 4: Your system seems to be out of date. Click on windows update to keep your system up to date.

day 5: Unbelieveable low mortgage rates!

day 6: ....

Ok, so I'm sadistic.

Coldest place on Earth?

[RandoX]

They obviously haven't been in our server room.

Among their lab gear...

[Riktov]

A witch's tit, and a brass monkey's balls.

The most remote place on Earth?

[Pan T. Hose]

"Dome A is the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, and it has never been reached by humans. It is thought to be the coldest place on earth, and is certainly among the most remote."

"Sir, we have successfully made to the Antarctic Plateau. It is indeed the coldest place on Earth, just as we thought, but unfortunately according to my map, it is not among the most remote ones. The most remote place on Earth seems to be the Arctic Ocean."

Re:Monitoring, huh?

[corbettw]

Actully, Antarctica is the second coldest place on Earth, the first being my bed! HA! HA! HA!

For a second there I thought you might be my ex-wife.

Cold weather

[evildogeye]

This confuses me. I don't even like to leave the house when its lower than 68 degrees F. I'm hoping that global warming can negate the need for humans to enter such cold temperatures.

John - http://www.wasauna.com/ [wasauna.com]

Re:Question

[zaphod123]

"Damn that's cold! I didn't realize there was any place on earth where dry ice could occur naturally."

Apparently you don't know my ex-wife...

Coldest place on earth?

[Misch]

Coldest place on earth? They'll have to get past the Secret Service first... Dick Cheney's heart isn't exactly accessible you know.

[OT] A Jersey Limerick ;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

We come from the planet Uranus;
the methane is really quite heinous.
It's not quite like hell,
you'll get used to the smell,
but New Jersey keeps trying to claim us.

Re:good for them

[greenhide]

homo smartus

While the members of the football team will continue to call them "homos".