Ever wonder what there is to do in Antarctica during the winter?
From Rueters.
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.
“Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable”
Well sure, it’s got to be a little embarrassing to go to the Antarctica drug store to buy condoms all the time. But 16,500! That sure seems like it ought to be plenty. Those scientists must be a randy bunch.
How many people do they have there during the off-peak time.
About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.
Let’s do the math.
16,500 condoms/125 scientists and staff=132 condoms apeice
Supply flights resume in September which is 83 days away so…
132 condoms per person/83 days=roughly 1.6 condoms per day-per person
But wait…each of those 1.6 condoms per day-per person would presumably, be shared with another person. So it actually works out like this; there are sufficient condoms for each person the engage in sex 3.2 times per day during the Antarctic winter.
Well, I guess all we can do is hope that’s enough.
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Pribek wrote,
sure enough, Sans
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Are there any trees there? No! right? I thought so.
Maybe there was an outbreak of Lymphogranuloma Venereum on the last frontier.
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Hey, maybe it isn’t SEX, but rather Romance, and the pursuits of a Green Heart… and to jibe means lots of rubber:
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Thanks to Pribek and Sans for providing this angle on humanity and non-living conditions…
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Pribek wrote,
“Hey, maybe it isn’t SEX, but rather Romance, and the pursuits of a Green Heart…”
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Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com wrote,
Very interesting math, Jack! These guys also work or what?! I think that you should also count the time spent having sex 3.2 times per day and you would probably find that they are either not working too much either too tired to work the next day, right?!! :-D
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Pribek wrote,
I’m glad somebody brought that up Ovidiu, good work.
It seems to me that 3.2 times a day would be time consuming as well as tiring; if you are doing it right.
Link | June 10th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Sans Direction wrote,
I haven’t thought too deeply on the math, as I have my own intellectually stimulating problems to work with, but don’t you need two people to effectively use a condom?
Which pushes it up to 6.4 times a day.
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Sans Direction wrote,
Ah. Didn’t see that part.
As Gilda Radner said, Nevermind.
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Pat Darnell the 6_dot_4 Clubbers wrote,
Okay, is that one of your’n or what?
Signed,
Curious in pink
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Pribek wrote,
Whose?What?
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patdarnell and friends wrote,
This:
“I really can’t stay - Baby it’s cold outside
I’ve got to go away - Baby it’s cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you’d drop in
So very nice - I’ll hold your hands, they’re just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, w…”
I like it.
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patdarnell and friends wrote,
and doesn’t Sans get anything for a Gilda Radner along with his special math skill? eh? [are you out of yahtzees? I know a site where you can get some -- cheap]
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Pribek wrote,
Oh no, not mine.
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” written by Frank Loesser.
Go listen to the 78rpm of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPr_iXsTO8
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