Looks like things are really swinging at this Antarctica base

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Genx87
What a waste of money.

It's a couple of grand worth of condoms...not exactly a major contributor to our national debt.

If the US government is buying them I'd bet they cost $100 per condom.

Shipping is the expensive part.

Let me clarify, $100/condom plus shipping.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Genx87
What a waste of money.

It's a couple of grand worth of condoms...not exactly a major contributor to our national debt.

If the US government is buying them I'd bet they cost $100 per condom.

Shipping is the expensive part.

Let me clarify, $100/condom plus shipping.

These are gamma ray proof 🙂

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

Penguins can't bend over, they lie down on their belly.

 

[nwfsnake]

Didn't someone from this forum have a girlfriend/wife that was going to Antartica for a year? Guess we know what she is up to! 😉

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

Penguins can't bend over, they lie down on their belly.

Ah, worked at Antarctica now, have we? 😀

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Genx87
What a waste of money.

It's a couple of grand worth of condoms...not exactly a major contributor to our national debt.

I wish condoms were that cheap...maybe if I bought 16,500 of them at a time.

 

[Jeff7]

Everyone in this thread disappoints me to no end. One word has not yet been mentioned.


"Bulk."


You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

Penguins can't bend over, they lie down on their belly.

And their bellies are often covered in shit.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

Penguins can't bend over, they lie down on their belly.

Ah, worked at Antarctica now, have we? 😀

Nope, watched Planet Earth and March of the Penguins. Perv.

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: herm0016
polar bears don't live down there!

Nothing lives down there.

Penguins

That will teach penguins not to bend over.

Penguins can't bend over, they lie down on their belly.

And their bellies are often covered in shit.

dude what are you talking about ???

penguins shit cute white little snowballs...

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: nwfsnake
Didn't someone from this forum have a girlfriend/wife that was going to Antartica for a year? Guess we know what she is up to! 😉

My wife was on a research vessel for six weeks down there a couple years ago. They made a stop or two on the continent. Didn't go to McMurdo Station though...I know they stopped at Palmer Station.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Everyone in this thread disappoints me to no end. One word has not yet been mentioned.


"Bulk."


You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

bulk + online, except the shipping would kill any kind of bulk discount you get.


There, happy?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: JLee

Originally posted by: lozina

125 scientists
124 male
1 female

AVG flagged an infected image on your link. 😕

Relax, that's just acne plus a couple of hickies on her boobs. 😛

 

[Rubycon]

Budgetary constraints caused them to seek a much cheaper alternative to the expensive membrane used for radiosonde deployment. A rubber filled with He can lift most instruments just as well as the membranes costing 30x as much. :laugh:

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Budgetary constraints caused them to seek a much cheaper alternative to the expensive membrane used for radiosonde deployment. A rubber filled with He can lift most instruments just as well as the membranes costing 30x as much. :laugh:

lol except condoms can't survive the extreme temperature like the membrane.

 

[dennilfloss]

Maybe they do this.

NSFW!

http://www.myscienceproject.org/condoms.html

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Link. Assuming approximately half of the base is male, that's 262 condoms per person. Gotta have something to do during the off-hours, right? And what else are you going to do at a remote antarctic base?

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported on Monday.

Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.

The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.

"Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable," Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.

About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.

The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo's population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period.

What's so bad about having to buy condoms? Who feels bad about that?

I'm guessing a lot of adultery occurs down there? If that's the case, maybe they should feel bad about it.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Maybe they do this.

NSFW!

http://www.myscienceproject.org/condoms.html

good thing they included a 'donut try this at home' disclaimer.

I was thinking while reading it some idiot was thinking about going to the bathroom prior to sex and trying to roll on 300 or so condoms to appear more manly in bed.