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Why Did The Antarctic Drilling Project Fail?

Posted January 02, 2013 8:29 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

The rest will be gone, along with all the equipment, the stores and a union jack, in a few weeks' time, leaving no trace of this daring mission to reach beneath the ice. The most exciting science often carries the greatest risk and, despite three years of planning, this is a gamble that has not paid off.

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Re: Why Did The Antarctic Drilling Project Fail?

01/02/2013 10:58 PM

Are you a blooming moron?!?

An experimental of whatever failed today, will succeed next year. Pain in the butt.

DUH. Excuse me being plain (as in obvious).
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Re: Why Did The Antarctic Drilling Project Fail?

01/02/2013 11:13 PM

The best way to never have anything go wrong is to never actually do anything.

Next time they'll do better and eventually they'll succeed, that's how we humans learn to do new things.

It's not failure, it's progress.

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Re: Why Did The Antarctic Drilling Project Fail?

01/03/2013 7:48 AM

"At one stage, an electronic component the size of a thumbnail - essential to the running of the main boiler - had to be flown out all the way from Britain.

But in the end it was the drilling that proved the project's undoing: it simply could not continue because fuel was running low. "

Um, not to sound obvious; but when they flew the tiny electrical component to the site, why didn't they bring along more fuel?

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Re: Why Did The Antarctic Drilling Project Fail?

01/03/2013 8:54 AM

I bet their answer would be, 'Because... Shut up!"

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01/03/2013 10:59 AM

"Quiet Desperation" is the English way(David Gilmour)

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01/04/2013 10:34 AM

The time is gone, the drilling's over....thought I'd something more to say.....
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