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“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) in The Worst Journey in the World, his 566 page first-hand account of Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. (via lambergeier)
Wasn’t that the one where they had to cross Antarctica in the dead of winter and steal some emperor penguin eggs, in order to prove a hypothesis that was debunked by the time they got home?
I saw the eggs in the Natural History Museum a hundred years later and no one knew what to do with them. They were preserved as ‘a monument to scientific endeavor’, or possibly as a haunting reminder of what can happen if you don’t wait for peer review.
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”
-
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) in The Worst Journey in the World, his 566 page first-hand account of Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. (via lambergeier)
Wasn’t that the one where they had to cross Antarctica in the dead of winter and steal some emperor penguin eggs, in order to prove a hypothesis that was debunked by the time they got home?
I saw the eggs in the Natural History Museum a hundred years later and no one knew what to do with them. They were preserved as ‘a monument to scientific endeavor’, or possibly as a haunting reminder of what can happen if you don’t wait for peer review.
