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From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 10:59:10 EST
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.
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