Antarctic Snow Cruiser

[kmacafee]

I hope this is the right place for this but saw this article in the Atlantic, and thought readers here would enjoy it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser-updated/424851/

 

[sswanson15]

Thanks for sharing

 

[StreetsofCompton]

Pretty interesting especially because nobody knows where it is. Thanks for sharing

 

[tanglefoot]

Wow--I hadn't seen most of those photographs, or the unloading video. As the ramp started breaking, I thought to myself, "gun it!", which appears to be what they did! Huh, I was thinking like Jeremy Clarkson for once!

I can't imagine trying to get that thing unstuck. That must have been an exhausting effort.

All projects can't be successes, I suppose.

 

[hitormiss]

Thanks for posting this, very interesting. Here is a 6 minute link on the "Penguin" that I came across after watching the unloading video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABaxjIRxheQ#t=365.8031284

For some reason I cant get the link to start the video at the beginning, also the music is annoying, but its not my video.

And Hi to all been cruising the boards for awhile but this is my first post.

 

[smlobx]

interesting piece of history!

 

[McDowra]

Very Interesting thanks for sharing

 

[Eaglefreek]

now that's cool. You would have thought they would have waited for winter in Chicago to test it on snow and ice.