The limiting factor for us – so far anyhow – is not the ice choking the route ahead but rather the wind strafing it.
The French word for polar meltdown is “marde“
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4 Intrepid Adventurers downtime group photo:
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Uh-oh…
I recall they have bottle of decent whiskey on board to celebrate their triumphant ow into Pond Inlet – it would be a great media moment to plug their cause.
Since they have lots of ice and not a snowball’s hope in hell of making it to PI, maybe they should crack the bottle and have some on the rocks.
“On the rocks” . . . excellent metaphor for their Great Greenie Eco Adventure Disaster.
You called this one. Trying to boat during coldest summer on record.
Their latest update basically says that they had no idea how to design a boat and that they had no idea what the Arctic is all about.
Their dreams of grandeur and total lack of logic has turned their trip into one of eye opening reality.
They realize what it’s like to feel like complete assholes and know they have zero chance of completing the trip.
There is a new interview found via their Facebook page in which they admit that ice is blocking them ahead. A recent post.
For some reason it won’t link.
Try this:
econnexus(dot)org/the-arctic-joule-calling/
(and add) http:// (to the front.)
That is odd. When I pointed that out to them two weeks ago, Reggie declared that I was the “second stupidest person on the Internet”
It appears their tracker is now down or they took it down out of embarrassment. They have a new blog up saying they are riding at anchor (for a change 😉
I really like the idea of a poll on when they give up or how far they get. At this time I would be betting $5 on “giving up” but if they ever got a lucky break / tail wind they may yet surprise us all.
I wonder if Reggie would like to place a bet on his horse!
“It’s not the elephant blocking the road. It’s the fly on the elephant’s trunk that is blocking the road!”
These guys are a contemporary Monty Python skit, albeit via Kosmic Klueless Karma. Where’s a dead parrot when you need one?
Skeptic: “The expedition’s dead!”
Reggie: “It’s not dead, it’s merely taking a nap. A well-deserved hiatus, if you will.”
Skeptic “My good sir, it is most categorically DEAD. It’s tossin’ kippers at the seals that guard the Pearly Gates! It’s pushin’ up daisies under the arses of picnicking maidens in Wellsbury Park!”
Reggie: “I beg to differ! They are merely waiting for the world-famous Blow Torch of Algorea to rise up and melt the ice and calm the winds, so that they may complete their epic voyage to save humanity!”
Skeptic: “You, sir, a complete and utter tosser. The expedition is past the point of polar bear excrement and is feeding the krill under the ice. They need to turn back, admit that they and their AGW gods were wrong and go back to doing something useful, like picking up garbage on the sides of roadways.”
That’s good. 🙂
Next they’ll have to strap on their snow shoes and join the department of funny walks so they can make it back to civilization.
I hear that boats made out of baby seal skins make excellent arctic boats.
Sorry to disagree, but “marde” is no French word. It is a word made up in Quebec from the French word “merde” (which vulgarly means “faeces”), used by those inhabitants of Canada when they are speaking about snow. They use to say “la marde blanche” when they actually mean “White Christmas” :o)
That works for me!
Instead of the quaint “white crap” designation of Quebec, we just call it “global warming”. As in the white stuff children would not recognize after 2009….
Merde is Merde no matter how you spell it.
RE: ‘The French word for polar meltdown is “marde“’
The German phrase for deep denial is “Tief Kot” 😉
I think you mean la merde. The brown stuff.
I hope they get lots of pics of global warming “melting” the ice.