06-24-2008, 10:54 AM
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Chrono's Lesbian Lover
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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So this is what they do in Antartica...
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* Peter Walker
* guardian.co.uk,
* Monday June 9, 2008
* Article history
Before the winter darkness descended over Antarctica, a US research base received one crucial final delivery, according to a report today - a consignment of 16,488 condoms.
A year's supply of the prophylactics was despatched last month to the McMurdo station, on the southern tip of Ross island, the New Zealand newspaper the Press reported.
The last staff flight out of McMurdo before winter set in was on February 26. Workers will now have to wait until August 20 for the first sunrise of the spring.
As the biggest settlement in Antarctica, the research station had a summertime population of around 1,000, but this dropped to about 125 in winter, the paper quoted its manager, Bill Henriksen, as saying.
"There are some people that tend to get a little bit bored. But for the most part, people who come down here know how to occupy their time," he said.
The condoms would be freely available to staff, he said: "Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable. We'd prefer to just provide them and do it that way so that people don't do without."
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My question is..... why only 16,488? Why not 16,500?
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