On this day, 105 years ago, the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Birdie were found by Cherry and other members of the expedition. What really touches me about it is that Scott's hand was resting on Wilson's bag..they lived as friends and died as friends, and they didn't regret it. He was right in his Message to the Public when he said "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman." The tale definitely tells about all those things, even though he didn't live. I will always be amazed at how well everyone got along with each other. When they got back to the hut they erected a cross nearby with the names of the lost party (along with Oates and Evans, who died earlier on the trip back) and "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," from the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson, which I think was Cherry's idea. RIP to some of the greatest guys who ever lived, you'll never be forgotten <3 (It's weird to think their bodies are still buried somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf O_o)

( November 12: Nature Finds )

Today at work we arrived to a whole bunch of books just stacked haphazardly by the back wall:

I've only seen Paulette that angry a couple of times..she was fuming! We HATE when people leave stuff outside when we're not there..more than once we've had books destroyed by the rain that were left outside..and it's just rude! We're not a dumping ground! I thought I'd seen it all, but there were at least 4 or 5 DRESSER DRAWERS with books in them! I texted Denise this picture and said "WTF?? Who does this??" so she wouldn't have a heart attack when she got to work lol. When she got to work she was like "I was shocked when you texted WTF! Heather cursing?? Wow!" I'm not sure if that technically counts as cursing lol, but I was like "I'm full of surprises." :P We loaded most everything in Denise's truck and went to the dump (most of the books weren't in great condition). We had to make two trips because there were so many boxes/drawers/books in lids LOL (I'm glad it wasn't 86, like last week when we went to the dump..too hot!!). We got a smoothie after, so that was nice. :P What an interesting day lol

A huge iceberg broke off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica today..it weighs more than one trillion tons and is 2,239 square miles..wow!! One of my coworkers was like "that is not good, global warming blah blah" and I said "that's what tidewater glaciers DO, even advancing ones!" And indeed, and article (HAHA I just wrote arcticle! LOL) I just read said "this is part of the normal behavior of ice shelves. What makes this unusual is the size." Yeah, don't argue with me about something I'm passionate about LOL

Earlier I dropped my phone in a puddle, and it somehow still works..phew! Maybe the case protected it..

( July 12: Hot Pink )

Today's trivia: Nicholas Cage bought a $150,000 octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help his acting

The major earthquake that hit Japan on Friday caused a massive ice stream in Antarctica to momentarily speed up.

As the surface seismic waves generated by the quake travelled around the world, they appear to have given the Whillans ice stream in West Antarctica a nudge, causing it to slide by about half a metre.

The movement was picked up by Jake Walter of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his colleagues, who monitor the glacier remotely from California. They say the event is an "interesting insight", but are not suggesting it will destabilise the ice stream in any way.

The Whillans ice stream drains ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf. Since 2007, Walter and colleagues have been using GPS field stations on the ice sheet to monitor its movements. They have shown that the ice stream speeds up twice a day in slip events which last about 30 minutes.

The glacier normally creeps along at an average speed of about 1 metre per day. But during a slip event, it slides almost half a metre in one go. The sudden slips are related to the tides, and are strong enough to generate seismic waves that are recorded by stations at the South Pole and the Antarctic Dry Valleys.

That's amazing..

( Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory )