Hi group! This is TC — and this is just the thing I’ve been waiting for — a great opportunity for EB to get away for five years. Always telling me how much work she does, EB needs time off, and what better way to get away than spending a year just 900 miles from the North Pole in the frozen tundra? She’d be really great at conducting carbon dioxide release — she’s always been full of gas; plus EB is an R.N. too.
If you think I have an ulterior motive for wanted to send EB off on a simulated mission to Mars — you’re right: while the cat’s away, the mice will play.
Think how much fun we’d have if EB didn’t have her eagle-like eyes on me? Why, you’d all be treated to some really good corny stuff — and I could say anything I wanted to without her censorship 🙂
Alas, I’d probably put Cloudeight out of business if it weren’t for EB’s pulling on the reins. But dreams don’t die easily, do they?
I wonder if I can get her to sign-up for this? If she did, would five of you be willing to join her? Don’t let her do any gas experiments on you though. If you think you have gas now, wait until she gets done with you. And if you go outside with her, you’ll have to don a space suit — and here’s a hint for you: Don’t let her walk behind you 🙂 Keep her in front of you where you can see her. She’s good with needles — don’t say you weren’t warned.
OK time to get to the nitty gritty:
Volunteers Wanted for Yearlong Mock Mars Mission in Canadian Arctic
If you’re ready to take a timeout from your life and spend a year living in the Arctic on a simulated Mars mission, the Mars Society wants to hear from you.
The non-profit group, which advocates for manned exploration of the Red Planet, has released its requirements for the six volunteers who will be expected to spend 12 months at the society’s Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Canada’s Devon Island, which is about 900 miles from the North Pole, beginning in July 2014.
Just like astronauts, crewmembers will spend most of their time doing science, studying things such as carbon release from the permafrost and human performance in extreme conditions. If they want to go outside their base, they’ll have to wear a spacesuit. If something breaks, they’re the ones who are going to have to fix it.
“Dedication to the cause of human Mars exploration is an absolute must, as conditions are likely to be very difficult and the job will be very trying,” Mars Society officials said in a description of the simulated mission, which is called Mars Arctic 365.
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No one should read your ranting 🙂
That’s why I want you to go on the Mars training trip — so I could rant on and on and on. Many like my ranting – besides, TC uncensored would be a revelation for many. You are an oppressor, Darcy. I say set TC free!
Your friend,
TC
Do not go EB please .
You’re kidding, right? I’m too old anyway.However, I think this is a scam..the many you are always telling us to be on alert at all times!!!!
You have both become like part of my family TC and ya’ know we are all a funny bunch 0’ducks when ya’ think about it LOL!
Thanks to both of you for hangin’ in there and all the ways you have given us helpful info over the years!
There are only a few people on this whole planet who can be considered indispensable and EB is one of them!….So it is no go!!!!
Having spent a year with 4 other males on an isolated weather station in the sub-Antarctic, in 54-55 , I am aware that being fully occupied can make the time seem to go faster. No doubt TC. would be doing the other would be candidates a favour by not applying. lol ? the only draw back to the welcome end of ones sojourn is that the incoming party presented every one with a nasty dose of flue.! However perhaps, for TC. it would be an opportunity to rant and regale on regardless until the long suffering others pole-axed n’ hung him from the pole in a pole-dancing fashion.! lol!? cheers…Walter……..
Hey Darcy, you don’t have to go for Mars training to “set TC free” to rant at will. A year of scuba or “tanning” training in Hawaii would do that. I’ll volunteer to go there with you.
NO NO NO–DARCY YOU CAN’T GO AWAY. NOT THAT I DON’T TRUST TC IT IS JUST THAT HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CARRY THE LOAD ALONE.
OMG.
Did Darcy read this? There’s somtink wrong in the old gent’s paradigm, plotting as he is…against the only one who has stood beside him since the beginning of whatever. Scary Bad.
Invest in some handcuffs Lil D, and keep ’em..handy
My inclination was to censor your comments, but I believe in freedom of speech. Darcy tortures me — man she was mean but she’s changing her seen — and she’s doing the best that she can. I got to admit it’s getting better…
You have not seen the welts on my buttocks.