June 12, 2008
Three from Theo Spark
Our Brother from across the pond is on a roll today. Here are three: #1)Thought for the Day....#2)
A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darknessNow before you go and try dividing the 125 overwintering station personnel into the 16,500 number (132 condoms per person!), realize first that this is the annual supply for the station. Now that the summer season is over, the transport planes are flying nearly empty so they cram as much stuff in them as possible for the next summer when the planes will be full of scientists and their
One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported on Monday.
Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.
The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.
"Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable," Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.
About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.
The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo's population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period.
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