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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 15, 2018, 04:00:38 pm
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The Penguins Smoking Hockey Schtick
Guest Blogger / 20 hours ago March 14, 2018
Guest essay by James Wanliss
It is a tough life in Antarctica.
Average winter temperature at the South Pole is about -49°C. The coldest temperature ever recorded by a thermometer in Antarctica was -89.2°C at Vostok station in 1983. (This is the same as -128.6°F.) Satellite measurements have found temperatures as low as a frigid -93.2°C. Compare this to a home freezer—about -15°C. Add wind chill into the mix and one would think life near impossible. Indeed, Antarctic biodiversity is incomparable to that of warmer places such as the Amazon.
And yet … there is life there, and in abundance.
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