WE'RE NUMBER ONE! 2007 has been LEFT BEHIND!

[XemaSab]

[hatrack]

1. Tool Monkeys! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

:woohoo:

[Odin2005]

2. This is bad, this is VERY bad!

:scared:

[emmadoggy]

3. Agree!!!

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[truebrit71]

7. Bloody hell.....

:wow:

[The Croquist]

4. What is your point?

As of 09/07 Sea ice is 125,000 sq km above 2007. It hasn't been below 2007 since 07/23.

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation because she never cackles until after the egg has been laid.
Abraham Lincoln 1863

[Viking12]

5. I am reminded of a scene from National Lampoon's 'Vacation'

"Nothing to be proud of Rusty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wcnvDpdVU

[pscot]

6. To boldly go

where no oil tanker has sailed before.

[The Croquist]

8. Not so bold.

The North East Passage has been used commercially since at least the 1930's. That's not going boldly but it does, like the Force:

"Have a strong influence on the weak-minded."

[pscot]

9. So this guy is probably just making shit up

Weak minded, indeed.

09/16/2009
A First Across Russia’s Arctic Sea

Niels Stolberg, the president of Beluga, which is based in the German city of Bremen, called it the first time a Western shipping company successfully transited the Northeast Passage.

The German merchant ships MV Beluga Fraternity and MV Beluga Foresight arrived this week in Yamburg, Siberia, their owner Beluga Shipping GmbH said Friday. They traveled from Ulsan, South Korea, in late July to Siberia by way of the Northeast Passage, a sea lane that, in years past, was avoided because of its heavy ice floes. They have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage almost exactly one year after a Canadian supply ship traversed the Northwest Passage through the Canadian arctic archipelago.

http://www.boattest.com/Resources/view_news.aspx?NewsID=3737

[The Croquist]

10. North East Passage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_East_Passage

In 1932 a Soviet expedition led by Professor Otto Yulievich Schmidt was the first to sail all the way from Arkhangelsk to the Bering Strait in the same summer without wintering en route. After a couple more trial runs, in 1933 and 1934, the "Northern Sea Route" was officially defined and open and commercial exploitation began in 1935. The next year, part of the Baltic Fleet made the passage to the Pacific where armed conflict with Japan was looming.

A special governing body Glavsevmorput (Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route) was set up in 1932, and Otto Schmidt became its first director. It supervised navigation and built Arctic ports.
During the early part of World War II, the Soviets allowed the German auxiliary cruiser Komet to use the Northern Sea Route in the summer of 1940 to evade the British Royal Navy and break out into the Pacific Ocean. Komet was escorted by Soviet icebreakers during her journey. After the start of the Soviet-German War the Soviets transferred several destroyers from the Pacific Fleet to the Northern Fleet via the Arctic. The Soviets also used the Northern Sea Route to transfer materials from the Soviet Far East to European Russia and the Germans launched Operation Wunderland in order to interdict this traffic.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, commercial navigation in the Siberian Arctic went into decline. More or less regular shipping is to be found only from Murmansk to Dudinka in the west and between Vladivostok and Pevek in the east. Ports between Dudinka and Pevek see virtually no shipping. Logashkino and Nordvik were abandoned and are now ghost towns.

No he didn't make shit up he just choose his words carefully to make you jump to an incorrect conclusion. They said "the first time a Western shipping company successfully transited the Northeast Passage." Perhaps that's because a "Western shipping company" never tried before. He never mentioned that the Soviets had been using it for over 60 years.

Sometimes the truth is inconvinent...