On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Shuan Rose wrote:
> Engineering problems! If Wally Hicks was still here, he would come up with
> half a dozen solutions before sundown:) If you can send a man to the Moon,
> you should be able to solve a little problem like drilling in Antarctica!
> Have some faith, man! We are Christians, faith is what we do:)
> In serious mode, the problems drilling in Antarctica are of the same nature
> in my (amateur)opinion as drilling in Siberia, Alaska, or the North Sea.
> They should be solvable, given another ten or twenty year's advance in
> technology. By then, Antarctica will be the last frontier for oil companies
> and I expect that the wolves will be gathering by then...
It seems to me that unless all the oil is offshore, you ought to be
comparing Antarctica with Greenland, which is glaciated, rather than with
Siberia and Alaska, which are not.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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