Webcams & mr. penguin

Whats happenin?  The put up a couple new webcams that I thought you guys might be interested in seeing. 

http://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

There seems to be a bit of a problem, atleast for me. The image refreshes every 10 seconds and after it refreshes I just get a white screen because the next image doesn't come through.  If you click on the little button to expand the picture then it expands and seems to refresh just fine.  The "arrival heights" camera is the same angle as the old one but I think it's a new camera.  The other 2 are new. I think that the "McMurdo Pier Camera" is just temporary. From that one you can see where the ice pier used to be before they blew it up and towed it out to sea the other day. That will be where the Vessel is setup so you could watch the vessel offload that'll be going on 24/7 for the next week or so, once they get the ship tied up.  At the moment you can see the ship from the "Observation Hill" camera.


The other day I had to go out to LDB which is where they launched those big balloons from a month or so ago.  So I took a couple pics from there. On the way back we saw a penguin on the side of the road so we stopped to get some video.  It's a federal crime to disturb them so you can't get too close. He was molting so they just stand in virtually the same spot for weeks until all the feathers are gone. So he didn't look to happy. 

This is the big ass building where they build and prep the payloads...

 Other buildings, the one with the ball on top is the telemetry building where they receive all the data that the science packages send back... 

 That big truck is only use for launching balloons, now thats highly specialized...

 This is the refrigerator.  I couldnt get any shots inside because everything, including the fridge, is closing down for the season. Apparently it's hollowed out underneath and they store food in there like, well, a fridge...

 Emperor Penguin

I saw this sitting on top of the coat rack the other day.  What attracted my attention was the "best if used by" date on the bottom, ouch...

There are lots of things past the expiration date around. You can still buy Pringles in the store where the best by date is like a year ago. I guess you deal with whatcha got...

Video of Mr. Penguin