{"id":88,"date":"2019-12-30T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:36:40","slug":"no-colder-than-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/2019\/12\/30\/no-colder-than-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"No colder than Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, we each had coffee and half an avocado in our tiny room, then jumped on the #29 bus to the International Antarctic Center by the airport.<\/p>\n

One of the first things we did there was ride in a H\u00e4gglund, a vehicle designed for use in Antarctica, over an obstacle course. It feels a little like a Thai Song Teow, until the ride starts. We went over a field of tires, over logs, across crevasses of several feet, up 45-degree slopes on a 21-meter hill, then jumped off the other side.<\/p>\n

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Cold roon. The wind isn’t blowing, so it’s only 17 \u00b0F. The thermometer drops considerably when they turn on the fans to simulate a storm, but is still no colder than Lake Tahoe in Winter. Or the environmental chamber I used to work in at HP. Of course the real Antarctica can get much colder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We found that there was a free shuttle that went back downtown, so we took that, ending up at the Canterbury Museum. Best museum we visited so far.<\/p>\n

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One feature the Canterbury Museum had was a study of 1000 throughout the years. There were representative displays of each decade. Can you tell which decade this is?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Also at the Canterbury, life size world’s largest (extinct) parrot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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