"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
01/20/2016 at 16:25 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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Back in 1939, Chicago’s Armour Institute of Technology built this massive vehicle to aid Rear Admiral Richard Byrd’s expedition to explore Antarctica. Unfortunately, they put slick tires on it, which proved to be less than optimal for driving on snow and ice.
They put it on a ship and trasnported it to Antarctica, where the unloading of the vehicle almost ended in disaster (see video below). When the Snow Cruiser proved to be pretty bad at cruising on snow, it was parked and used as a heated living quarters. The Snow Cruiser was left buried in the snow, and its whereabouts remain unknown.
Recently, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! published more photos of the Snow Cruiser that were discovered in the Boston Public Library. Clink the link to see the pictures.
Spoon II
> ttyymmnn
01/20/2016 at 16:35 |
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Stuff like that just shows how far engineering has come. Besides the slick tires, the tires are pretty narrow to allow for driving over deep snow and ice. The weight on those tires was probably ridiculous
MonkeePuzzle
> ttyymmnn
01/20/2016 at 16:47 |
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wow, only testing appears to be on sand dunes that just happened to be on the route to the boat. not taken to snow before being shipped. just wow.
RallyWrench
> ttyymmnn
01/20/2016 at 19:01 |
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I remember reading a Clive Cussler book in which this was unearthed by Dirk Pitt and used to foil some dastardly neo-Nazi plot. If we can bring P38s out of Greenland icepack, we should be able to find this.
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ttyymmnn
> RallyWrench
01/20/2016 at 19:05 |
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My first thought is that they ought to have at least a general idea of where they left it. But I guess the ice up there is constantly shifting, and it could have sunk way, way down in 70 years.
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RallyWrench
> ttyymmnn
01/20/2016 at 19:23 |
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True, but those P38s were under, what, 100 feet or more of ice? It’s worth looking for, at least.