Conversations #1: South Pole online

I know everyone is still buzzing over their Steemfest experiences

recapping interesting conversations about Steem, what it needs or what it doesn't need, or all the fun and cool steemians in real life and why you shouldn't mix tea with beer or lend your scarf ^^

I came back and it took me awhile to clean up my room from last minute packing..

While tidying up life keeps on going and interesting conversations keep on happening :)

I thought I'd share some of them in a series of posts (with the kind permission of my friends).

• Wanna skype? does it work on the South Pole?

• no, sorry.....interent is extremely limited, we only get it a few hours a day over satelite
  and the bandwidth is very low

• ooo! it's daylight all the time huh? B)

• yes! Need to put cardboard on my window to sleep

• How long are you going to be there?

• about 3 weeks

• use plenty of sunscreen x)
  You'll get sooooo tanned there haha

• haha, yes! thanks

• Are you at Amundsen-Scott? A family friend stayed there, when calculating the existence of the subglacial lake Vostok. it was back in the 60s :) a soviet researcher at an american base...

• yes, I'm at Amundsen-Scott base

• so cool! he was there as well.

• oh, wow! that was probably with the old station, the so called "dome"

• They used to have a 20 m perimeter marked with barrels around the South Pole, and if you walked around them you could buy a diploma for a dollar at the base. It identified you as a person who had made a round trip around the world xD
  Then the barrels were completely covered by snow, so they started to sell the South Pole membership cards. Do they still sell those? if yes i'd like one for Xmas :D

• nice! they don't have that anymore ;) but i can still travel around the world.....i think i did so yesterday several times

• lol you are the world traveler

• i think in the 60s was even before the dome station! must have been the original one

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotikov_Glacier
  :O They've named a glacier after that guy!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Pole_Station

• Wow!!! It's a huge building now!!!

• yes, like a spaceship!

• That's amazing!!!

• up to 150 people now

• I wish he was still alive. So now I know two physicists who went to the South Pole :)

• ah yeah, i could have sent him a postcard from here if he were still alive

• can you send one to me?

• sure :) satelite is going offline in 1 minute
  see you!

this particular friend kept bugging me to start learning Python for years until I caved this September :)

Dear P, if you are reading this, thank you for being in my life after all.

Talk to you tomorrow!

(made with engrave)

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