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1. 02:19 AM - Re: Happy New Year! (With Disclaimer) (Michel Verheughe)
2. 09:01 AM - Re: Arctic Islands (Steve M)
3. 10:10 AM - Re: Arctic Islands (Michel Verheughe)
4. 11:48 PM - Official Usage Guideline [Please Read] [Monthly Posting] (Matt Dralle)
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| Subject: | Re: Happy New Year! (With Disclaimer) |
--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Michel Verheughe <michel@online.no>
Jeffrey Puls wrote:
> John,
> You really should vent your kerosene heater to the outside when working in
> your garage. Jeff
Hey! I think that it was a great disclaimer, Jeff! John, could I get some of
your kerosene? :-)
Happy New Year, everyone!
Michel
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--> Kitfox-List message posted by: "Steve M" <ondeck355@hotmail.com>
Wonderful country indeed, if you don't mind getting a little chilly. I spent
2-1/2 years at Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland, as system engineer
on the American BMEWS radar site there. Most wildlife kept away from the
base (well, so did most humans if they had any sense), but we saw zillions
of arctic foxes, or "archies" as we called them.
Right about now it's pitch black there, 24 hours a day. That started in late
November and continues till early February. We'd have contests to see who
would see the sun first. Then in summer, it's daylight 24 hours a day. All
barracks windows had blackout shutters so we could sleep at "night". It was
desolate enough, that (I believe) it's the only Air Force base where the
Chapel is open and manned 24 hours/day, too.
One of the favorite newbie demos was to take a new guy to the dining hall,
get a cup of steaming hot coffee, take it outside, and throw the coffee
(keep hold of the cup) into the air. This is best done in March, when it's
light enough to see but still around 40 below. You get a huge burst of
steam, hear a crackling sound, and little pellets of freeze-dried coffee hit
the ground all around you.
It's also the only place I've ever been, where you can see the Northern
Lights (Aurora Borealis) to the SOUTH. I'll pass onthe return trip, thanks.
Steve Maher
Kitfox Model 2, Geo Metro engine
San Diego CA, where it's not quite that cold
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>Just happened to be looking at some charts of work I may be
>doing again in the Canadian Arctic up at Ellesmere Island
>and wondered where Lonyearbyen was. As I gather from your
>E-mail posts you spend quite a bit of time there last
>summer --- turns out you are only a few hundred miles from
>where I worked last July --- just across the northern tip
>of Greenland to Spitsbergen. Wonderful country up in those
>Arctic Islands. Muskox, wolves, arctic hare and caribou and
>of course foxes all over the place. Scenery is absolutely
>fantastic. Sure want to go back up there again this summer.
>
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| Subject: | Re: Arctic Islands |
--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Michel Verheughe <michel@online.no>
Steve M wrote:
> It's also the only place I've ever been, where you can see the Northern
> Lights (Aurora Borealis) to the SOUTH. I'll pass onthe return trip, thanks.
Probably because, contrary to the common believe, the aurora borealis is not
over the north pole, but over the north magnetic pole, which, in Thule, is at
your south west side, Steve.
Incidentally, and as you probably know, in the Middle Age, Thule was believed
to be in Norway. Just another mythical island, like Atlantis and Frysland. The
latter is a funny one: map printers used to have it somewhere south of
Greenland, for centuries. It just got copied again and again, without having
any one to ever see it. Like modern urban legends, we repeat them without checking.
Cheers,
Michel
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| Subject: | Official Usage Guideline [Please Read] [Monthly Posting] |
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--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Dear Lister,
Please read over the Kitfox-List Usage Guidelines below. The complete
Kitfox-List FAQ including these Usage Guidelines can be found at the
following URL:
http://www.matronics.com/FAQs/Kitfox-List.FAQ.html
Thank you,
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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