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The Arctic Trek Team consist of numerous supporters, two primary explorers, two snowmobiles, a camera and a dog. The Expedition began in earnest in Febuary, 2000 in Indianapolis, Indiana after several years of training. Elementary students follow the course of the expedition and the explorers stop at schools along the way to visit with the students. The learning experience is a benefit to the students and the explorers alike and the people working behind the scenes learn a good deal as well. Supporters include scientists, mechanics, retailers and various service providers. A complete list has never been published and there are too many to name here.
The recent, sudden breakup of a second major part of the Larsen Ice Shelf in the Antarctic and the loss of more than half of the Arctic ice mass over the last fifty years add relevance to this expedition. Two years ago, the Arctic was considered frozen and was expected to stay that way. The US Navy has, in recent weeks, published its expectation of a need to patrol a new, seventh ocean within the next fifteen years. The ice at the terrestrial poles is melting. While other expeditions to the North Pole have chosen to travel on skis, in airplanes, on sleds pulled by dogs and in all other appropriate kinds of conveyance, this expedition is unique in its scope of support and in its course and in the timing of its strategic execution.
Follow the link to Arctic Trek 2002 in Team Art Bell and read along as Otto, Chris and Bear navigate the tides, the polar bears and the weather in the Great White North. They begin this year's travels where they left off last Spring. . . in Resolute, Nunavut, Canada. . . in a storm. This be be, at the very least, interesting! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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ExtraterrestrialLife exists - usually. It is a well-known fact. Human beings dive off of the earth and land in water 100 feet below, timing their dives with the tides and leaving the Earth. . . for a time. People visit space stations for a time. ET exists! Let's not forget the highly-competitive field of extra-terrestrial flight from terrestrial Poit A to terrestrial Point B. YOU COULD BE ET!!!
Who was it who appeared on Coast to Coast AM and pointed out that had the US government funded SETI 100 years ago, we would have had to search for smoke signals on foreign planets?
I'm not convinced SETI has happened upon the search pattern or method that will finally reveal the location of an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization but I am convinced that SETI@Home is one method that needs to be eliminated or vindicated in that effort. The numbers tend to indicate that the effort is capable of finding its end in one of those two conclusions. It is my hope that it will continue to its logical end.
Arctic Trek is not thinking about SETI - they are thinking about surviving the cold and getting to their next indoor nap, staying on course and keeping up on the maintenance of their machines. The North Pole is not a New Frontier but relatively few human beings have travelled over the snow to get there. I am happy to come home to my heated lodgings every cold day - those who travel north of a given point have no reasonable need of wishing for a warm day - God help them if a storm finds them making a mistake. That's my little brother up there. I hope we find ET but I hope you find a moment to smile, if only in your mind, at the people whose air conditioning is designed to keep a human being alive rather than comfortable.
I run SETI@Home because I can. It runs in the background and doesn't change my life in the least. It produces results of terrestrial relevance. I could choose to run Kazaa or any number of other commercial programs that affect the lives of other humans but I have never heard of any ot |
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