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Re: Northeast passage. was:Polar Possessions of the SU.
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 10:59 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 10:59 -0500
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, George Huxtable wrote: > and managed to get himself invited to a voyage on the nuclear icebreaker According to some web sites, they do take tourists on the nuclear icebreakers now. The fleet operates with loss, and they are trying to make some money this way. > It seems that Russian Arctic > navigation is largely fuelled by vodka. Not only Russian. In the very beginning of XX century, during the race to reach the North Pole, a German mathematician Zermelo, who followed this race carefully, derived the following empirical law for the amount A of alcohol consummed by the expedition: A=k.tan L, where k is a numerical coefficient that depends on the units of measurement and L is the maximal latitude reached by the expedition. His conclusion was that reaching the North pole is theoretically impossible... Alex.
