Perpetual Thursday (PT) is a log of Patrick J. Simmons' thoughts, ideas, opinions, commentary, doings, and so so forth. In short, rambling, ranting, nonsense, and bunk.
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Friends, family, fellow bloggers, readers, and whoever else bothers reading Perpetual Thursday: I'm back. I'm settled in the new house, my schedule is somewhat regulated again (ok, once I get a job again, that's going to go haywire, but for the moment anyway, I'm good), I've got internet access, and I'm ready to start posting.
Well, they've done it again - the Russians have done something really, really cool, and as usual, everyone else (esp. the U.S. and Canada) are green with envy. This time, instead of going up, they went down - to the tune of 4,261 meters below the North Pole. From the BBC:
"Russian explorers have planted their country's flag on the seabed 4,200m (14,000ft) below the North Pole to further Moscow's claims to the Arctic.
The rust-proof titanium metal flag was brought by explorers traveling in two mini-submarines, in what is believed to be the first expedition of its kind.
Both vessels have now rejoined the expedition's ships, completing their risky return journey to the surface. "
Now, if you ask me, that is just plain awesome. But apparently not everyone thinks so:
"Canada, which also claims territory in the Arctic, has criticized the mission. 'This isn't the 15th Century,' Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay told the CTV channel. 'You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say "We're claiming this territory",' he said. "
As always, the minute something neat happens, someone has to make a fuss over it. Can't anybody appreciate, even for a moment, the achievement made?
"'This may sound grandiloquent but for me this is like placing a flag on the moon, this is really a massive scientific achievement,' Sergei Balyasnikov, spokesman for Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Institute, told Reuters...
...Soviet and U.S. nuclear submarines have often traveled under the polar icecap, but until Thursday none had reached the seabed under the pole."
Read the full Reuters article...
To me, that's enough - something amazing's been done, and I'm happy enough to just be impressed by it.
Ok, so maybe I'm a bit jealous too. So much for my country of Patazstan flag.
Well, that about wraps it up for the moment. For those of you looking for something to read between my amazing posts here (I'm assuming that you are hanging on my every word, right?), I'd recommend my little brother's blog: Bling's Blog. It's an amazing combination of spelling errors, odd grammar, bizarre subjects, and more - don't miss it: http://blingsgotblog.blogspot.com/
Also, don't forget to check out the Alternative-Internet.com team blog, This Blog is Not Pornography, at:
http://www.alternative-internet.com/blog/
There you can find out about my various Alternative-Internet.com projects (including my upcoming webcomic and my latest stories), as well as check out my weekly feature: Paddy's Pic of the Week.
Before I close, I'd like to mention that I'm going to start using labels for my posts. At first, this won't affect anything, but eventually I'll add a list a labels to the sidebar so you can just directly to posts concerning the topics that matter to you: religion, politics, philosophy, news, humour, Blogs of Note, and so on. Keep an eye out.
I should be posting again later this week, so until then, may all your Thursdays be Perpetual.
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