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Subject: Re: Explorers or adventurers?
From: Robert Eno (enoid@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 21:20:23 EDT
George Huxtable wrote:
> On 3rd July 2002, under the thread "Reaching the Pole", I said, referring
> to the expeditions to the South Pole by Amundsen and Scott-
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> >To me, the whole business was a tragic exercise in futility. That such
> >teams should devote their energies, and for some, their lives, to being
the
> >first to reach an otherwise undistinguished spot in a barren wasteland,
> >seems such a waste of human endeavour.
>
> This seems to have raised a few hackles, politely expressed.
Eno responds::
If we all agreed with one another there'd be nothing to discuss or debate
and that would be boring.
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