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Fourmilab South Pole Expedition

January, 2013

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2013-01-14 07:40 UTC Click images for enlargements.

Madrid's very geometrical airport.

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2013-01-14 04:59 UTC

Here's a science experiment you can do yourself the next time you're on a shrieking aluminium death tube. At altitude, after you finish your beverage, cap the empty bottle and watch it as you descend. It will be inexorably crushed as the cabin pressure rises from around 2000 metres cabin altitude to that of the airport. This is less than the difference in altitude from the South Pole and sea level.

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2013-01-14 12:52 UTC

The twenty-six kilogram duffel, back at Fourmilab.


by John Walker
February 22nd, 2013
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