Test your Antarctica knowledge! One winner will be picked at random from all correct entries, and will receive a super-special souvenir. (post your answer to the "comments")
You're camping on the Ross Ice Shelf, and you come across a Nalgene bottle marked with a large letter "P". What should you do?
A) Pour it into a snowmobile--this is an emergency dose of PETROL.
B) Drink up--this water has been PURIFIED.
C) Return it to the nearest scientist--this is a sample of PENGUIN POO.
D) Don rubber gloves--this is a bottle of PEE (urine).
E) Toast to the Italian Antarctic Program--they've misplaced yet another expedition-ready bottle of PINOT NOIR.
5 comments:
I'm going to have to say B.
OK, lessee...
A-no, Petrol must be marked according to MSDS requirements.
B-drinking "P" nope, not me!
C-this seems the most likely option considering the abundance of Penguins about.
D-Hello? All pee goes to the ocean, not in the Nalgene vessels!
E-Pinot Noir carelessly discarded on icey land, not likely.
THE ANSWER IS: None of the Above, this little treasure is Pepe's message in a bottle, open it up and read his plea for thermal underoos.
My vote is for D definately Pee in it. You can learn a lot from children's books - all human waste is collected and taken to the U.S. so that Antarctica does not get contaminated. How to survive in Antarctica / written and photographed by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.
I never thought before this, but you should definately have read this before your journey. Also tells how to make a snow shelter. It is one of the contenders for Maine Student Book Award this year. This is a blurb from her website http://lucyjanebledsoe.com/work6.htm
Not A because I can't imagine there would be enough to go anywhere with that small amount of petrol..especially if you're out in the middle of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Not B because you can just eat ice
Not C because you don't need a nalgene bottle to carry poo.
Not D because you can just pee on the ice like the penguins do
It must be E. Toast to the Italians!
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