yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

A Dry Valley Mystery | Continent 7: Antarctica


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

Scott Bay's choppers will be here to pick up the team in 15 hours. It's an early start this morning, and we've got to break the camp down, but not everyone is ready.

Yes, I mean science in the Dry Valleys. He's gone really well; we've knocked out pretty much all of our sample sites except for two of us. That's Kurt and I are gonna go up the mountain over there and hit off the last sample site whilst the rest of the team down here takes care of pulling together the camp. It's gonna be a really long day.

Yeah, science may only take 30 minutes, an hour maybe, but four hours of walking to get to that site. Right, let's do this. The Dry Valleys are done like any place else on Earth. Every step you take is actually an exceptionally unique one. You're walking in an area that has never been experienced by another human being.

You kind of get completely captivated, but at the same time, your body feels incredibly tired. The impact from walking hits you. Yeah, that's pretty tough. Stop for a second. The mummified feel is actually in pretty good condition.

Yeah, let's wrap it. This valley is 30 miles from the ocean, and it's so cold and dry that dead organic tissue can be preserved for decades or longer. You know, this guy's probably been sitting here for a couple of hundred years.

You know, they've come a long way to get here. These guys are not very good at navigating when there's a storm. When they get lost, they just continue to walk until they die. The dryness of the system will slowly dehydrate them, and then they'll just shrink and become mummies.

The question is really how they got here because it's really difficult to get from the ocean into this valley. It's one of these Dry Valley mysteries. Move on to our next state; still got quite a lot to go.

More Articles

View All
15 Ways To Think About Money
What if we told you that most of you were thinking about money in the wrong way? The average person has no idea what money really is and how to leverage it for a life filled with freedom. They use it to pay bills, buy food, and acquire things that they us…
Homeroom with Sal & Magnus Carlsen - Friday, March 12
Hi everyone! Welcome to homeroom with Sal. We have a very exciting conversation, and I also have two temporary co-hosts today because our guest is a bit of a hero for them. We have a bit of a chess household, so we’re going to have a hopefully very engagi…
Example constructing and interpreting a confidence interval for p | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
We’re told Della has over 500 songs on her mobile phone, and she wants to estimate what proportion of the songs are by a female artist. She takes a simple random sample—that’s what SRS stands for—of 50 songs on her phone and finds that 20 of the songs sam…
Beached Wheel | Life Below Zero
Just got done having my morning cup of coffee, and down here I can see the river really start dropping. Last night, it dropped a couple feet. I’m going to head up river, make sure my fish wheel is not high and dry. I can’t afford to just let a functional …
Hierarchies of Competence
Generally speaking, it’s not the case that our hierarchies of competence are reasonably functional and not only are they functional, they’re valuable. We need to know who the competent people are, and we need to reward them. Even more importantly, we need…
COLD HARD SCIENCE.The Physics of Skating on Ice (With SlowMo) - Smarter Every Day 110
Hey, it’s me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So in the Olympics, the most athletic team always wins, right? No. It’s actually more complicated than that because there are physical objects in the Olympics. Now the team that is able to manipulate…