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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Radioisotope thermoelectric generator to distill saltwater? Why bother with the electric generator? Use decay heat to heat seawater directly.
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Well, both men made it across Antarctica. I look forward to seeing what dumb idea someone will come up with next so they can also claim to be first.
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I read that barrel guy has made 4 other transatlantic voyages by sailboat, so I guess he knows what to expect by now. E: Also read that there's an old superstition among sailors that bananas are bad luck, but I suppose barrel guy's not really sailing but floating so hopefully he'll be ok. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Dec 29, 2018 |
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empty baggie posted:I read that barrel guy has made 4 other transatlantic voyages by sailboat, so I guess he knows what to expect by now. He knows enough about sailing not to give a gently caress about superstition. The sea doesn’t care if you whistle. It also doesn’t care if you live or die.
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Maera Sior posted:Well, both men made it across Antarctica. I look forward to seeing what dumb idea someone will come up with next so they can also claim to be first. First ascent of Everest in a cauldron using a hammer, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSx_z1tmFZo
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Kinda reminds me of Bionic Commando. E: now that I’ve played it, it’s not Bionic Commando at all. It’s loving evil. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Dec 30, 2018 |
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The NYT has a piece on Everest insurance fraudquote:NEW DELHI — International insurance companies on Friday threatened to end travel coverage to Nepal if the government did not crack down on elaborate helicopter rescue scams that target foreigners trekking near Mount Everest and other high-altitude peaks.
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Talk about sacrificing your clients to the mountain gods.
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Poisoning seems unneccessary when the average everest climber is exactly the kind of petit-bourge shitlord that would go along with the scam for a kickback
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You can say a lot of bad things about Everest climbers, but probably not that they are eager to commit insurance fraud.
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shame on an IGA posted:Poisoning seems unneccessary when the average everest climber is exactly the kind of petit-bourge shitlord that would go along with the scam for a kickback Kickbacks cost more than sodium bicarbonate.
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I got some kind of food poisoning in the middle of the Annapurna Circuit and had to spend like 18 hours puking and pooping but like hell was I gonna get airlifted out of there. Luckily it cleared up after than and I finished it just fine.
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Gobbeldygook posted:The NYT has a piece on Everest insurance fraud rich person’s vacation gets ruined, insurance company gets scammed, workers in a developing country benefit. everyone wins!
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Havent been keeping up with this thread. Any dumbass incel retard pieces of poo poo die on Mount Everest lately? That would be freakin epic
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Considering how weird the weather has been in the US, have the weather patterns on Everest been normal or are they having another low snowfall year? I figure with climate change we're going to see a lot more dangerous cracks and avalanches happening
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RedMagus posted:Considering how weird the weather has been in the US, have the weather patterns on Everest been normal or are they having another low snowfall year? I figure with climate change we're going to see a lot more dangerous cracks and avalanches happening hell yeah can't wait!! 
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Puppy Galaxy posted:hell yeah can't wait!! Puppy Galaxy posted:Havent been keeping up with this thread. Any dumbass incel retard pieces of poo poo die on Mount Everest lately? That would be freakin epic
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usually the people concern trolling the everest thread have a negative postcount but this guy is 6k+. maybe he worked at google and knew that exec who died the day after he posted a instagram pic of him drinking espresso over a crevasse
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Maybe he got confused and thought there was a bonus for being the first person to concern troll this Everest season.
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Haifisch posted:Maybe he got confused and thought there was a bonus for being the first person to concern troll this Everest season. Somebody needs to start a pool on how many people will troll this thread this year.
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the first half-asian half-hispanic Turkish citizen quadriplegic person with scabies to troll the thread this season
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gohuskies posted:Somebody needs to start a pool on how many people will troll this thread this year. We're the most active thread in Take A Hike instead of GBS now, so -10 No one who hasn't bookmarked it will ever find it again.
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A sub-forum encouraging goons to go outside to places without Wi-Fi was doomed from the start.
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What is the climbing conditions of Everest these days? They've had an earthquake and a huge amount of melt last I remember, are any of the normal routes still usable?
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RedMagus posted:What is the climbing conditions of Everest these days? They've had an earthquake and a huge amount of melt last I remember, are any of the normal routes still usable? It's still winter, most summits happen in May so you'll see teams for the spring push show up in early May.
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More blood for the mountain god, which seems to have cursed a family. Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 in 1995; her son Tom Ballard's body was just found on Nanga Parbat. There's nothing to mock here, it's just sad.
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Norrskensren posted:More blood for the mountain god, which seems to have cursed a family. Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 in 1995; her son Tom Ballard's body was just found on Nanga Parbat. Oh man, Daniele Nardi died with him. For those who don't know the name, Chris Warner did a Google Talk about his experience climbing up K2 in 2007 and one of the teams that summited alongside his team was an Italian team led by Daniele Nardi. Chris Warner did not have very nice things to say about him.
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K2 hungers.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:K2 hungers. Everest has more opportunity, K2 takes advantage of just about every opportunity it gets.
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I just watched "The Summit" on Hulu and it was very good. K2 is a killer
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VoodooXT posted:Oh man, Daniele Nardi died with him. For those who don't know the name, Chris Warner did a Google Talk about his experience climbing up K2 in 2007 and one of the teams that summited alongside his team was an Italian team led by Daniele Nardi. Chris Warner did not have very nice things to say about him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA
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If Everest were three hundred metres shorter, would more people die climbing mountains or fewer? I can’t imagine a K2 remotely as crowded as Everest is today, but it could be a lot less crowded and kill just as many people.
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You'd probably get idiots wanting to do it with no experience, but you probably wouldn't get as many people willing to drag someone to the top for money.
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VoodooXT posted:Oh man, Daniele Nardi died with him. For those who don't know the name, Chris Warner did a Google Talk about his experience climbing up K2 in 2007 and one of the teams that summited alongside his team was an Italian team led by Daniele Nardi. Chris Warner did not have very nice things to say about him. Oh right! I knew I'd heard the name before and had something of a negative association with it, but didn't realise he was that guy.
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VoodooXT posted:Oh man, Daniele Nardi died with him. The mountains have their revenge. That is a hell of a talk, in some ways a worse story than the The Summit because lessons should have been learnt. That's also the first time someone clearly said that there wasn't enough rope, it may have been said in the doco but I don't recall it.
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