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Theantarctic Sunnovember 26, 2000 www.polar.org/antsun The November 26, 2000 PublishedAntarctic during the austral summer at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Sun for the United States Antarctic Program Quote of the week Helping hands “I’m luscious. I want to be eaten.” Volunteers worked the equivalent - General assistant dreaming of of 72 kitchen shifts last week to help being a strawberry. the staff prepare food for yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day dinner. Nearly 900 people were expected to eat. “For us to do this nice of a dinner, Vostok volunteers are imperative,” execu- tive chef Jody Cheever said. “We’re very appreciative.” A search starts for other life By Teri McLain Special to the Sun On Europa, one of Jupiter’s frozen moons, a thin skin of ice hides what may be a liquid sea. If so, it would be the only known place in the solar system besides Earth where water exists in significant quan- tities. It is there scientists believe we might discover our first aliens – a nation of Above: Lorie Above: Mike microbes. Poole and Brenitta Smith, left, But the training ground for this interplan- Brady top Brie and Justin etary exploration is Vostok in Antarctica. wheels with nuts, Henkel pull Engineers from NASA, Woods Hole pesto and dill leaves Oceanographic Institution and the cranberries. from the University of Nebraska are designing a pair Right: Cook Luke stems. The Kearney stirs of robots to penetrate the sea ice of Europa men spent six and sample the putative ocean. The cryobot, pasta while meat hours thaws in the a device that melts a route through the ice, preparing the other kettle. herb. and the hydrobot, a small submarine that Photos by Beth explores the sea below, may see real action Minneci. for the first time in Earth’s largest known see Vostok on page 5 By Jeff Inglis Expectations Sun staff Scott Base psychologist They say you only experience your first time in is comparing the two Antarctica once. Gary Steel wants to know how that plays out for newcomers to the Ice. Steel, a social psychologist at Lincoln University experiences near Christchurch, New Zealand, is studying the & see Expectations on page 4 INSIDE Communication Snowy Drilling A life in breakdown summer for fuel the skies page 2 page 6 page 10 page 12 2 • The Antarctic Sun November 26, 2000 News In BRIEF Swedish Polar Ambassador “We have subscribed totally to the on the other hand, is similar in the visits Ross Island Antarctic Treaty goals,” Kettis said. two areas. While she is “The science has a clear bipolar The New Zealand Antarctic Program the ambassador aspect,” Kettis said. “I think it has not played host to the Swedish polar for both polar only polar aspects but global aspects.” ambassador, Eva Kettis, last week. regions, Kettis On her trip to the Ice, she visited She had been in Hobart, Tasmania, said she concen- Ross Island’s historic huts, various field Australia, for a meeting of the trates most of her camp locations around the Ross Sea Commission for the Conservation of effort on the and in the Dry Valleys, and visited Antarctic Marine Living Resources Arctic. McMurdo, where she was particularly and was invited to be a guest at Scott “That’s per- impressed by the mawsonii in the old Base. haps nearer to our aquarium. After several days on weather hold heart,” Kettis said. “I never thought I would see a big in Christchurch, Kettis arrived on the She works Eva Kettis toothfish,” Kettis said. Ice for her second visit. Her first visit with the Arctic Council, a group that As well, she toured Scott Base and was to a site on the Antarctic Peninsula includes the eight countries that bor- liked what she saw. where a hut was built by an early der the Arctic and several groups of “They are very well equipped and it Swedish Antarctic explorer, Otto Arctic indigenous people. works very well,” Kettis said. Nordenskjold, in 1901. “That is quite unusual for intergov- She was unable to leave on schedule Sweden, which signed the Antarctic ernmental cooperation,” Kettis said. because of the weather, which frustrat- Treaty in 1984, maintains two small The political issues, she said, are ed her a bit, but Kettis said she was glad summer-only camps in Queen Maud very different in the north and south to be able to see this part of “this huge Land and cooperates with Finland and polar regions. For example, since the and beautiful continent.” I Norway in areas of logistics and opera- Arctic is largely ocean, no country tions. can make territorial claims. Research, - by Jeff Inglis Roadblock on the superhighway By Josh Landis effort to make the system more efficient Sun staff is under way. McMurdo Station has hit a The first step is to set up a local milestone, although it’s one few proxy server. That’s a computer people will be celebrating. Internet that will keep track of what web usage has reached its peak, and there is sites people visit most often, and store nowhere else to turn. The link that supplies information from those sites locally. This our connectivity to the web is maxed out. will make some web-surfing faster, because each addi- “Our internet pipeline is full,” said Jim Johnson, head of tional user won’t have to download the same data individually. information technologies. “There are nearly 700 computers on But there’s a catch. The less-frequented addresses will take station for a population of about 900 people. That’s pretty sig- longer to load, because that same computer will want to first nificant.” store the words and pictures before it displays them on a screen. All those people surfing all those web sites are creating dig- The second step in getting a handle on the congestion will be ital traffic jams, and some essential communications are at risk. to set up an automatic priority system that will act as a data traf- “Some of the critical data is not getting off continent,” fic cop. This is more complicated and could take months or Johnson said. “We’ve hit the threshold, and we’ve got to change more to put in place. It involves “boxes” at each end of the T1 the way we do business.” link. One will be here at McMurdo and one will be in Ames, That change will affect everyone who goes on-line for any Calif., where the line enters the information superhighway. reason. Each box will decide what information gets through, and Right now McMurdo gets its voice and data through a T1 when. It means the clinic’s X-rays will get uploaded right away, satellite connection. The information (whether it’s e-mail or but a person downloading music files during their lunch break web pages or audio files or pictures) is transmitted on a first- may get cut off mid-transfer. Some people may have com- come, first-served basis. The T1 is a fast link, but only about plaints about the solution, but it could be worse. half of the bandwidth is available for internet access. “We could have shut down non-essential sites, like National Right now, larger data transfers sometimes get squeezed out Public Radio and Napster, but we’re hesitant to do that, and so by many smaller ones competing for bandwidth. The medical is the NSF,” said Johnson. “The only other option is to priori- department has discovered an example of that limitation. The tize.” clinic has a teleradiology machine, which transmits digital X- Ultimately, the internet logjam in Antarctica is a reflection of rays to the States for additional analysis. But for the last sever- the growing reach of the technology. al weeks none of the files have been able to go through because “It’s amazing the difference five years has made,” Johnson they are too large and their transmission times are too long. said. “It’s a different world from the days of DOS, when To avoid this and other potential problems, a two-pronged nobody knew about the internet.” I November 26, 2000 The Antarctic Sun • 3 American, Norwegian head for McMurdo on skis Seuss Minnesota native Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen started a cross- -a-palooza country skiing trek across Antarctica. From the side of Antarctica near Africa, on the Sites with Seuss parodies and writings Fimbul Ice Shelf, the women pushed off Nov. 14, aiming to reach McMurdo Station within 100 days. •www.seuss.org This is Bancroft’s second attempt to cross the continent. In 1993, Bancroft, The Center for Seussian Studies McMurdo Station resident Anne Dal Vera and two other women stopped at the South Pole after 67 days of traveling, 882 miles from their goal. •www.physics.purdue.edu/~northrup They missed their mark, but still made history as the first team of women to /old/seussshakespeare.html reach the South Pole on skis. “What if Dr. Seuss wrote Dal Vera is playing for the public a documentary made about their attempt Shakespeare?” Monday at the galley. The film, “Poles Apart,” features Bancroft, who was the first woman to reach the North Pole by land, Dal Vera and the rest of the team dubbed •www.iwaynet.net/~wstocks/fun/ the American Women’s Antarctic Expedition. seuss.html Bancroft and Arnesen’s start was originally planned for Nov. 1, but they were Links to parodies, song lyrics, early held up in South Africa when bad weather in Antarctica made flying to their jump- Seuss writings, analysis and links to links off point impossible.
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