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60 Minutes
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"What do you think? If we want to put it into the song we could chop it up. This was her first time being guided by the guru. Working with him has been genuinely life-changing when he gave me like homework assignments. What a homework assignment. I was writing a song and I couldn't articulate what I needed to say. And he was like, go home and write a full essay. Everything you need to say until you can't write anymore. And then the song kind of started forming itself. So he's not saying it was make a gold record that's going to do this in sales. Godzilla. He was like, I just want to make good music. And I was like, that's so crazy. The audience comes last. How can that be? Well, the audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. Isn't the whole music business built around trying to figure out what somebody likes? Maybe for someone else it is, but it's not for me. Making music is, of course, a business. But whether he's working with Malian singer, sangare, kesha, or Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin insists for him, it's always been a deeply emotional pursuit. We're trying to tap into a feeling, we're trying to tap into something that makes you want to lean forward and pay more attention. And I'm giving cues to look for in yourself. Because it all has to do with the artist. But I mean, that does sound very spiritual. It is. No, it is. The whole thing is spiritual. It is magic. And you don't want somebody who listening to music to think, oh, that's a Rick Rubin record. No. No, I want them to say this is the best thing I've ever heard and not know why. This is the takeout with major Garrett, Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House judiciary committee is our special guest. With Kevin McCarthy B speaker, but for Jim Jordan, I think Kevin McCarthy has done a good job. Is it personal? It's often said Congress is not altogether that different from high school personal grudges and grievances and not being a part of the cool kids, whatever, what was it? What was the essence? You have to eat after them. Come on, you have a sense. You have a sense of you know what it was about. My guess is there's maybe some of that. For more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with major Garrett on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm David pogue from CBS Sunday morning. In the new season of my podcast unsung science, you'll meet the discoverers of Ernest Shackleton's shipwreck endurance, lost beneath the Antarctic for a hundred years. It looked like the day when it sank is just a very good environment down there to conserve a shipwreck. The woman who invented forensic genealogy and has solved over a 150 cold cases. It's controversial, right? Because you never know if sitting around your Thanksgiving table, there's somebody who's been getting away with murder or rape. And the NASA engineers who flew a helicopter on Mars. The densities 1% that of earth's 1% air density, it sounds impossible, and it is almost impossible. It's season two of unsung science presented by CBS Sunday morning and Simon and Schuster. Listen to unsung science, starting January 20th on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, an update on a story called counting the vote, which we broadcast after the 2020 election. Bill Whitaker looked at how Pennsylvania election officials averted ballot box chaos during COVID, amid legal challenges, White House accusations, and physical threats from Donald Trump's supporters. Al Schmidt, Philadelphia's loan Republican election commissioner, called the turmoil deranged. Calls to our offices, reminding us that this is what the Second Amendment is for. People like us, you're getting calls like that? Yes. That's a not so veiled death threat. Yes. For counting votes, in a democracy. Ten days ago, Al Schmidt received the presidential citizen's medal in a White House ceremony, and Pennsylvania's incoming democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, has named Republican Schmidt, the state's top election official, secretary of the Commonwealth. I'm Anderson Cooper, we'll be back next week with another edition of 60 minutes. The biggest movie of the year. Are you ready? Damn right. Takes off on paramount plus. Critics agree, tobkin maverick restores your faith in the magic of movies. Nice. Tom Cruise. Having any fun yet? A gun maverick. Pretty PG-13, now streaming on paramount plus. From Taylor Sheridan, co creator of Yellowstone and creator of 1883 comes the new paramount plus original series 19 23, a Yellowstone origin story. You have no rights here. Starring Academy Award nominee, Harrison Ford. Tell the world what happens when they cross me. And Academy Award winner, Helen Mirren. Greet will be the thing that kills us all. Extreme 1923 now exclusively on paramount plus, go to paramount plus dot com to try it for free.
The Naked Scientists
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on The Naked Scientists
"Guess what we've found the endurance. The pictures are just remarkable. It's just sitting on the sea floor. The ship is there. It's intact. You can see the paintwork. It's as good as that. It doesn't get any better. It is a beautiful wreck. The wreck of Ernest Shackleton's endurance was discovered after almost a 107 years following its sinking on the sea floor of the weddell sea in Antarctica. The ship was found to be in relatively pristine condition, considering it's been sat there for a century. What conditions did not contribute to the endurance being found intact? Is it a, the cold water? B, a lack of wood eating worms or C weak currents. So I know that down there basically you can't get the worms because it's too cold, it's an anaerobic environment, I think, for them. They just there's nothing down there. But there is no weak currents around Antarctica. I mean, you've got been in cape horn that is not a weak current. So I think that that's probably the red herring there. What do you think? Well, that sounds convincing to me. I'll go with that. Yes, kit. Use your lived experience to get yourself a point because yeah, see, we covering. So they thought it's the cold water, and those lack of those worms being there. And the ship, have you seen the pictures, it looks incredible, just like Christine. Christine, yeah, pristine. And endurance is one of many shipwrecks in the world's oceans and seas, how many shipwrecks are thought to be sitting on the bed of our waters. Is it a 300,000 B 3 million or C 30 million? Worldwide? Yeah, across the entire world. It's got to be quite a lot. I mean, think of the hundreds of years we've been sending ships around. I would imagine there's probably 300,000 just around the UK to be perfectly honest. There's a lot of there's a lot of shipping. I would probably go for the millions. We go high. I think 13 million. That's good 13 million. So the answer is B.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Committing live bills I'm Bill Curtis And here is your host a man who just got wait listed for mensa It's Peter sagal Thank you Bill and thanks again Fake audience You may have heard that a couple of weeks ago explorers discovered the long lost wreck of the HMS endurance the ship commanded by famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton Well in a feat just as impressive we have discovered one of the people who did that Historian and broadcaster Dan snow and after we give him a few minutes to dry off and warm up we'll ask him about how they did it But first we want to hear about your epic discoveries Give us a call at one triple 8 wait wait That's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Let's welcome my first listener contestant Hi you are on wait wait don't tell me Hello this is Sami segar and I'm calling from fairfax Virginia right outside our nation's capital Right outside our nation's capital I think I should say far enough outside our nation's capital What do you do there Are you part of our nation's permanent government as many people in fairfax are I am actually a freshman at George Mason university studying hospitality management However when I'm not studying I work at an indoor ice skating rink All right you know what I'm gonna ask Do you get to drive the zamboni I am in the process of learning right now Let's just say it's going somewhere well So I guess I don't know if you have advanced far enough in your zamboni studies to answer this But is it as fun as it always looks like it is I think the thing that makes it most fun is the kids Along the glass telling you to honk the horn That's the most fun Why does that thing have a horn Like so if you're in traffic could someone tries to merge into your lane you hit the horn you get stuck behind a slow hockey player I think so I think it's like I get off the ice kind of signal But I think it's mostly for show Well welcome to the show Sammy Let me introduce you to our panel this week First up a comedian You can see at the Vermont comedy club in Burlington this weekend It's Emmy blotnick Hi emi.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"I'm Bill Curtis And I'm Peter sagal this week a highly intelligent capable woman had to sit quietly and listen politely while a bunch of men pompously explain things to her she already knew Fortunately she had majored in doing just that at Harvard will ask who relied on years of practice plus Dan snow the historian who helped discover the wreck of Ernest Shackleton chip talks about how he came in from the cold and Bill Curtis explains why while doing the show alone at home he still has a catered pre show dinner What am I going to do Not eat something We'll ask is really a little peckish on our quiz coming up right after This hour's news Live from NPR news in Washington I'm winsor Johnston As Russian forces intensify attacks on eastern Ukraine president volodymyr zelensky is calling for the west to supply his country with more weapons and PR's Jason Bobby and reports Ukrainian troops are bracing for a new phase of the conflict Ukrainian security forces are digging in around eastern cities fortifying sandbag roadblocks bulldozing defensive trenches and lining up steel anti tank barricades that they call hedgehogs along major highways military officials in Ukraine say that after failing to capture Kyiv Russia is now attempting to grab the south and east of the country Russian forces have succeeded in establishing control of a land corridor along Ukraine's south coast linking Russia to the Crimea region which it seized in 2014 Ukrainian forces are attempting to launch counter attacks president zelensky continues to plead with western leaders for more tanks aircraft and anti missile defense systems saying that you can't shoot down missiles with a machine gun Jason Bowie and PR news nipro Investigators have found the second and final flight data recorder aboard the Chinese passenger jet that crashed last week NPR's Emily fang reports 132 people were killed when the plane went down in the southern part of the country The recorders contain cockpit voice recordings as well as data about the aircraft before it crashed in southern China Investigators are hoping the recorders may help answer why the plane nosedive suddenly falling out of the sky at nearly the speed of sound and smashing into a mountain No survivors have been found making this China's worst aviation accident in two decades Authorities have been tightly controlling information about the crash They've held scripted press conferences and kept media far away from the crash site The national transportation safety board in the U.S. has appointed a representative and offered to help with the Chinese investigation China says it will complete its own investigation first then bring in outside experts Emily fang and peer news Beijing Wall Street is gearing up for a busy week with key reports coming on jobs and inflation As NPR's Rafael Nam reports the data could help determine whether the recent recovery in markets will continue After gaining for two weeks in a row stocks are seeing some momentum as we head to the end of the quarter This week will get a key report on inflation called the personal consumption expenditure price index or the PCE price index is the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation indicator Inflation has recently hit its highest in 40 years forcing the fed to raise interest rates earlier this month We also get the monthly employment data the.
WABE 90.1 FM
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"The following program was taped before an audience of no one Front and DR and WBE Chicago This is wait wait Don't tell me The NPR news quiz You're about to get defamed I'm committing live bills I'm Bill Curtis And here is your host a man who just got wait listed for mensa It's Peter sagal Thank you Bill and thanks again Fake audience You may have heard that a couple of weeks ago explorers discovered the long lost wreck of the HMS endurance the ship commanded by famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton Well in a feat just as impressive we have discovered one of the people who did that Historian and broadcaster Dan snow and after we give him a few minutes to dry off and warm up we'll ask him about how they did it But first we want to hear about your epic discoveries give us a call at one triple-A wait wait That's one 88 9 two four 8 9 two four Let's welcome our first listener contestant Hi you are on wait wait don't tell me Hello this is samus gear and I'm calling from fairfax Virginia right outside our nation's capital Right outside our nation's capital I think I should say far enough outside our nation's capital What do you do there Are you part of our nation's permanent government as many people in fairfax are I'm actually a freshman at George Mason university studying hospitality management However when I'm not sitting I work at an indoor ice skating rig All right you know what I'm gonna ask Do you get to drive the zamboni I am in the process of learning right now Let's just say it's going somewhere well So I guess I don't know if you have advanced far enough in your zamboni studies to answer this but is it as fun as it always looks like it is I think the thing that makes it most fun is the kids Along the glass telling you to honk the horn That's the most fun Why does that thing have a horn like so if you're in traffic could someone tries to merge into your lane you hit the horn You stuck behind a slow hockey player I think so I think it's like a get off the ice kind of signal But I think it's mostly for show Well welcome to the show Sammy Let me introduce.
WABE 90.1 FM
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"I'm Bill Curtis And I'm Peter sagal This week a highly intelligent capable woman had to sit quietly and listen politely while a bunch of men pompously explain things to her she already knew Fortunately she had majored in doing just that at Harvard will ask who relied on years of practice plus Dan snow the historian who helped discover the wreck of Ernest Shackleton chip talks about how he came in from the cold and Bill Curtis explains why while doing the show alone at home he still has a catered pre show dinner What am I going to do Not eat something We'll ask who is really a little peckish on our quiz coming up right after This hour's news Live from NPR news I'm Giles Snyder President Biden is at the presidential palace in Warsaw saying the NATO alliance is something Russia was hoping to break Vladimir Putin was counting on Being able to divide data To be able to separate the eastern Flank from the west be able to separate nations based on past histories But he hadn't been able to do it President Biden holding talks on Ukraine with his Polish counterpart on the second day of his visit to Poland the Ukrainian defense and foreign ministers also attending the BBC's Mark Lowe and reports are expected to discuss president Andre duda's previous offer to hand over fighter jets to Ukraine Today he's in these meetings with the Polish president and the Ukrainian officials He'll also be meeting some of the new arrivals some of the refugees Remember Poland is welcomed more than 2.2 million refugees to Poland and he'll be meeting them in the water national stadium And then later on he will be giving an important address that The White House is billing as a major address that will speak to the stakes.
The Naked Scientists
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on The Naked Scientists
"Polar research institute, recently they've struck gold. Here's Robert Spencer to tell us how, beginning with how this story started over a hundred years ago. Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages that are called long lumps and complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful honor and recognition in case of success. So ran the apocryphal advertisement, calling for adventurers to join Ernest Shackleton on his fateful mission to cross Antarctica. Fresh out of St. John's college Cambridge, physicist original W James answered the call as his son John recounts. My father was visiting a friend in a podcast that he'd never visited before. When somebody stuck his head out of a window and said, hey, Jimmy, do you want to go to the South Pole? After a brief interview with Shackleton where he was asked, among other things, if he minded losing any toes, James and 27 other men set sail on the ship endurance. The endurance was actually a yacht that was built to take wealthy tourists, hunting proud of airs in the Arctic. Pressed into this new scientific service, and despite the concurrent outbreak of the First World War, endurance set sail from South Georgia for the weddell sea. The weather was rough and experienced sea hands had advised Shackleton to wait. We're going to go in spite of the advice from the wedding captains. It wasn't long before the ship was stuck in ice. Endurance broke free several times, but eventually the flow held it fast. The decision was taken to spend the winter in the ship and to try and complete the expedition the next year, but the elements would have different plans. Nonetheless, RW James got to work with his experiments. There's a picture of him taking observations under the stern of the endurance. He was doing magnetic observation, but he got very interested in the navigation side. They observed eclipses of the stars by the moon, so called occultations to maintain the time on their clocks, critical for navigation in the early 20th century. 9 long months past. But then suddenly on Sunday afternoon the ISO and it went down like a stone. Endurance sank 3000 meters to the bottom of the Antarctic sea.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"I paid a huge Lloyd Thomas and I'm an Australian living on Nantucket island off the coast of Massachusetts I'm sorry Did you just say you're living on Nantucket Yes I did So we have a caller from Nantucket Here to play the listener limerick game Oh my gosh that's perfect Isn't it amazing We have been waiting for this moment for 24 years sir And I'm so glad And how often does the whole sort of limerick thing come up in conversation when you say you're from Nantucket That you are in fact I should go so far as to say a man from Nantucket That is very true but I do I'm more modest than that so I don't repeat the limit too often All right I appreciate that Well Hugh welcome to the show Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly and to the lyrics will be a winner Ready to play I'm ready Let's do it Here is your first limerick Fish and wildlife relations work busily It's HR work where conflicts get sizzly I tell ordinary bears to step in grab a chair I solve conflicts between man and grizzlies Yes U.S. fish and wildlife is looking for a mediator Between the humans and grizzly bear populations in Montana the mediators won't and let's be honest can't stop grizzly bear attacks but they can ensure both parties in their interactions use I statements For example I feel I feel like you are eating my leg The bears also have hired a mediator I'm sorry they've hired a meat eater Much of the role in this job which sounds great consists of stopping bears from eating trash in town and killing farmers livestock and it pays up to a $100,000 a year but unfortunately money does not make you faster than a grizzly bear I would do that job I would too We were so excited We immediately looked at the actual job description And this is true The position is telework eligible Can you imagine trying to mediate with a bear via Zoom Do they hold up a laptop to the bear's face I have no idea telework eligible really Telework for the bear on Zoom Excuse me excuse me smokey are you on mute Okay here you are Oh and he leaves And he leaves the camera on when he goes out in the Woods He's like oh no grizzly no don't All right here is your next limerick As we toast a successful campaign Our mutual loves sudden restraint We're drinking the bubbly and feeling quite rubbly There's ecstasy in our band Champagne exactly right That was a low ish and don't champagne Being recalled because they're spiked with ecstasy which means Greg's office farewell party should be a rager Everybody please raise your glasses and your adult pacifiers We should point out of course that while moai is a real champagne because it comes from the champagne region of France this is not real ecstasy because it does not come from a man with a ponytail But bye I mean I don't feel like they should be recalled I feel like that's like a new product category Look at that right Exactly I will be first in line Yes All right we have one more limerick here it is On Shackleton's ill fated trip The ice held a perilous grip They soon paid the cost Their transport was lost at last we found shackletons Yet yes Wash up the endurance has been found off of Antarctica and how about this the ship sank at the beginning of the First World War and was found right at the beginning of the third For those of you who want to for those of you who aren't middle aged men who are into nautical history and sometimes think about smoking a pipe Shackleton was an Arctic explorer whose boat got trapped in the Antarctic ice stranding him and his crew for over a year But here's the twist due to Shackleton's amazing tenacity as a leader they all survived unlike certain shipwreck survivors Shackleton made sure there was room in the door for the whole crew Yeah it's an amazing story It is an amazing story In fact about shipwreck stories in general that in finding lost boats and stuff like that that just I don't know make my ovaries shrink or something I find it so boring Really Really So if you were to go to Annapolis you're ovaries would all but disappear Yeah yeah Not a great place for me Another great place for me And the boat has been down there for a hundred years They just found it and it looks great It's like endurance what's your secret as well I use a retinol night cream and you wouldn't believe how much I moisturized Bill how did you the man from Nantucket doing our limerick challenge The van from Tucker What a full bucket all three makes him a champion Congratulations here Thank you very much We enjoyed the show It was really great Thanks a lot Thank you for joining us Take care Thanks bye Bye All right Bye bye Over a champagne still for now over in the sky.
Woman's Hour
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"It's been critical really as well to my own sort of solar stagger and a sense of climate anxiety too. And as I've seen more and more of these places and being privileged to talk to people who are encountering the real effects of climate change, it's become an enduring fascination. Nancy Campbell, thank you very much. Thank you. I'm British women were banned from visiting Antarctica until 1983 when Janet Thompson was finally granted passage by the British Antarctic survey. The organization that coordinates trips to perform research in the polar region. But now scores of women are making major contributions to this field of science, especially those working on the stability of ice shelves and sheets. So how did women break through the ice ceiling if you even knew there was such a thing to create opportunities and become leaders in their fields? I'm joined by Morgan seg who's just submitted her PhD on this subject to Cambridge University, can give us a bit of the history as well, and Joe Johnson, whose visit Antarctica 7 times with the British Antarctic survey. A warm welcome to you both. Morgan, let's start with you and this breeze. What was the reason given that British women were not allowed to go? So the ostensible reason was that there were no facilities for women in Antarctica. But that was a superficial excuse and in fact, one woman in the 1960s reportedly received a reply from the British Antarctic survey saying that they didn't think women would like to visit the Antarctic anyways. There were no facilities. In other words, there were no toilets. There were no shops. There were no hairdressers. But of course, the superficial excuse really underlie much more foundational anxieties. They were worried about sociology and sexuality on the ice. A gentleman who was among the leadership of bass in the 1970s and 80s said that even for an all male community, morale is balanced on a knife edge and an insignificant occurrence can have a snowballing effect and shatter morale on station. So they were worried that women would arrive and this sort of cultural social norms on stations wouldn't be able to withstand the pressures of sex. They were not talking about homosexuality at the time. That was very much swept under the rug. And I think there's a brilliant quote from the leader of the U.S. Antarctic operations in 1950s who said, we won't be having any women on the ice unless we can provide one woman for every man. Wow. Yeah, quite striking. But still underneath these anxieties, the Antarctic was seen as a stage for proving British masculinity dating back to the expeditions of Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. And so I think that they were worried that women would sort of shatter this illusion. And U.S. Antarctic leader George defect said women would wreck the illusion of being frontiersmen going into a new land, the illusion of being a hero. And yet, I suppose what was going on with the men there at the time, were they being heroes? What do we know about what was going on? Certainly there are risks involved in working the Antarctic fatalities and tragedies taking place. But the reality at the same time is that for most people, life in the Antarctic has been fairly mundane, a little bit tedious, maybe boring, especially if you're confined to the station for a couple of years at a time..
Against The Odds
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward. For god's sake hold on it's got us shackleton's spins around and ducks to the floor using one arm himself steady and then the wave class the boat in his grip brin eerie moment. Everything is almost quiet. As a wave lifts the small boat up and up and then it hits the vote is thrown into the air suspended then drops down into the sea edging forward and back like a bucking bronco. The rudder seizes up about spins backwards. Water strings over the side and almost ripped shackleton from deck. He's completely submerged is not sure if are even on the seed or they've turned on their side there's nothing but water and then the waves were along. It's over shackleton sets up coughing. He can't believe it. The ship is bobbing upright. They're taking on water but at least no one was thrown into the sea. Is everyone okay. I boss grab whatever you can and start bailing. The next morning the crew was completely spent and now they're almost out of fresh water their bodies close to collapse to be so near and yet so far from the goal even shackleton feels himself growing somber on may eighth at ten thirty. Am the mist and fog. Breaks one of the men kirs into the water and spots a patch of seaweed floating on top of the bobbing waves then a cormorants squawks from above. Those birds rarely venture far from land. But still they can't see anything another hour passes and the fog parts and the clear voice of one of the semen rings out. I see land. There between the clouds are black. Cliffs rising out of the sea here seeing the sky and then the clouds drift back together hiding the island from view but they all saw it. Now they just have to get there between blazing hot temperatures and neighbors partying late into the night. Doesn't it seem like getting a good night's sleep is an uphill battle this time of year but when you have a purple mattress you can sleep cool and comfortable no matter what the world throws at you. That's because only purple mattresses have grid the grids unique ventilated design allows air to flow through to help you sleep cool. I especially love the purple pillow. I love how it's got these little holes in it to just make me stay cool all night long. It's just that perfect pillow. It's not too low. Not too high not too soft not too firm. And it's definitely my favorite pillow that i have on my bed at the moment. Purple is comfort. Reinvented try your purple mattress. Risk free today with free shipping and returns financing is available to right. Now you'll get ten percents off any order of two hundred dollars or more go to purple dot com slash the odds and use the promo code. Be odds that's purple dot com slash. The odds promo code. The odds t. h. e. o. d. s. for ten percents off any order of two hundred dollars or more from wondering. I'm cathy tackle. And.
Against The Odds
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Against The Odds
Ernest Shackleton: Surviving Antarctica
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Against The Odds
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"The boat dips below wave completely disappearing sale and all henry wars lee watches his breath freeze in the air. He still can't believe he's standing in the exact same spot. That ernest shackleton stood one hundred years before he looks at the baron ice around them. It seems to stretch out forever. Amazing that this very point a place they've dreamed about for five years looks well. It looks exactly like the rest of antarctica. Adams will later say what is an artika other than a blank canvas on which you seek to impose yourself. It's so cold will and adams stamp their feet in place. Take the picture already. General henry peers through the view finder and pulls out a photo. He has to get it right. The photo he holds is of ernest shackleton. Frank wild and jameson. Atoms standing right were his teammates. Stand now a union. Jack flag flaps in the wind next to them the three men are bundled in their parkas. Their faces obscured by ice. Henry has been planning how he would recreate this photo. Ever since he first saw it he takes off his mittens. For just a minute to screws camera onto a tripod in the wind bites into his bare hands. Okay a little to the left atoms. That's where your great grandfather stood gal. You're in the middle. Where wild stood henry heads over to stand in shackleton's place on the right okay. Everyone one two three to think shackleton made it all the way here and then had to turn back. Henry is already bone tired and they still have another ninety seven miles to go but there will be a plane at the south pole waiting to take them out. Shackleton didn't have that luxury he's still had walked the same distance back and his men were falling apart the night before. He made his final track here. He was already showing doubt they'd make it much farther. Henry remembers the lines from shackleton's diary. I must look at the matter sensibly and consider the lives of those who are with me. I feel that if we go on too far it will be impossible to get back over the surface and then all the results will be lost to the world. If shackleton had gone on and not made it back. Henry wouldn't be here now. His hero was right to turn back but he can't imagine how agonizing choice must have been. He set aside his ego impossible. Glory to save his men. It's getting colder by the minute so they quickly pitched their tent and climb inside. Someone puts on the kettle then. They sit there staring at each other. Big city grins on their faces. There's nothing to say. Henry lays back in his bag and folds his arms under his head. What an accomplishment. He grabs the sat phone and calls his wife. We did it. Joanna as he listens to his teammates call home with the news. A feeling of relief washes over him like the weight. He's been carrying his lifted off his shoulders his fear of letting others down and the fear of failing himself. Tomorrow though meet the rest of the team that's flying in from chile to descendants of the original crew and three others including matty mcnair their trainer before he falls asleep. Henry open shackleton's diary. It's kept him company. This entire journey january tenth nineteen o nine is the day shackleton turned back on this day. A hundred years later henry will go forward to the poll. He will no longer be following in his hero's footsteps. The journey henry makes from now on will be his own. Shackleton stands next to frank wisely watching elephant island fades out of view then he faces forward in claps wordsley on the back he needs to concentrate on the journey ahead. How she looking. Skipper headed south windsor. Good for several hours. It's smooth sailing and then at two pm. They meet a gentle grouping of ice big chunks as old as time as smaller fragments passed by the boat. They make a whispering sound as they jostle against one. Another beneath them. The sea is a deep dark blue. It's other worldly as night falls. Shackleton sends the four crewmen to the hold to get some sleep. Skipper and i will keep watch then. Wars leeann shackleton huddled together on the deck saying nothing as they take in the silence far off in the distance behind them shackleton can still see the dusty shadow of the island where he left twenty two men. If anything happens to this boat no one will ever know his mentor out there. The burden of responsibility feels like a ten ton weight. We've had some great adventures together. Haven't we skipper. This one could be the greatest of all but do you really think we can beat the odds or xlii looks up. If you can't pull through. I don't know who can shackleton's still feels uneasy. You know. I've always been against dividing the that i do the wrong thing. Wars lee sits quietly listening. I hated being forced into that decision. But someone needed to go for help. I could not put that responsibility on another. They understand boss. Maybe wars lease right. So why can't he shake. This doubt. He's not used to this feeling being at cnn. A small boat has unnerved him. The land is familiar. He's proven himself. There fought the elements and learned that the wind eventually dies down the ice cracks. But the c. Is its own beast. It knows no boundaries chooses who gets through and who doesn't the best shackleton can hope for is that the sea will let them live moore's lee size see might be powerful boss but there's always a way through just look at the stars. Shackleton looks up the twinkling lights. It's magical very few men have seen. this site. Worsley stretches his arms over his head and then gets up. I'm gonna get some sleep before the drake passage. You good out here alone. All good skipper. Thank you the. Drake passage is legendary among sailors. It's simply the most dangerous water in the world. The old sailors speak of waves. Ninety feet tall intent on taking out everything in their wake. The drake passage is where shackleton will.
Against The Odds
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Last episode sir. Ernest shackleton and his crew of twenty seven men witness ship. The endurance crushed by the unforgiving. Ice off the coast of antarctica. When it sank the men were forced to build camp and spend the winter on ice floe. Now it's been ten months of waiting for the ice to melt and they're still here unsure of how or when they'll get home. Meanwhile one hundred years later. Henry wars and to other descendants of the endurance crew begin their own journey to recreate another shackleton's expedition their goal to trek across antarctica. Eight hundred miles on foot to reach the south pole but what henry is learning is that their greatest obstacle isn't the weather or rough terrain. It's themselves this is episode three.
Big Brains
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Big Brains
"The privatization of space is quickly outpacing laws and regulations. I mean who even owns space. So the nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty says that no one can own the moon or mars but at the same time there have been laws passed in recent years that have made amendments. That say that you could actually own resources extracted from an asteroid for example. So this is where the field of space law which is a pretty established field of of legal thought is really going to have to make some leaps and bounds in the next couple of years. Because i think the problem will be that activity in space will outpace the laws and regulations and that it will become sort of an actor's game like who can do it first and then who can stop them you know if elon. Musk shows up on mars. And says i am now the president of mars. Who is to stop him. So there is sort of a might makes right colonialist problem from history right at our feet yet again and this is where the lessons of history can really come to bear in. There's all sorts of dangerous scenarios that we can imagine what if there's no regulation for example around asteroid mining and an accident happens that causes a piece to crash into earth as these private organizations. Russia ahead were running out of time to create credible and powerful authorities. To hold them accountable. I worry that it's almost too late to organize that. These companies is simply would not recognize the authority. Like that's a move. That i see happening all too often at various levels of political culture at this moment people not being held to account and rules being totally flaunted and then later on maybe there's a slap on the wrist or something like that but it's not justice and i worry that we are quickly careening past that point when it comes to private space operations. We may already passed that. We have these charismatic powerful billionaire leaders who have legions of followers that that is a force to be reckoned with. And it's not like we can just create an international un for outer space or something like that and then they'll just say okay. I recognize you. And i will be governed by you like there will be pushed back on that and i worry that the power relations right now are so skewed that we may be moving past that point faster than we that we would want to very interesting well before we start getting into those kind of problems that there is the you know. How are we going to get there and particularly talked about mosque and getting to mars. Which is his vision. And he's also made the comment that on the path to doing this. A lot of people are going to die on us. You probably won't the i in the beginning. What do you think about that idea and is is that just part of the price that people are. We're going to have to pay as humankind to figure out what opportunities exist here. So when i heard him say that i was really disappointed. I thought that that was a major failure of leadership. If i was someone who was thinking about going to mars under his leadership i would not want him to sort of be putting out there. This idea before you even leave that for sure. You're going to die because that shows a sort of lessened regard for your life and if you watch that interview and he compares himself to. Ernest shackleton the british explorer of antarctica to mas. Reads like that at book for shackleton going to the antarctic you know it's it's dangerous It's uncomfortable it's a long journey. You might not come back alive but it's a glorious adventure and it'll be amazing and that was just a horribly terrible comparison to make because of course ernest shackleton went with his crew. He was a leader down there in antarctica. And of course he got back everybody alive from that that ill-fated mission so this idea that that he sort of ernest shackleton figure is complete misrepresentation. As far as i know elon. Musk isn't planning to be one of the first ones to go to. Mars is going to send other people there first and let them bear the brunt of the risk so what i would hope from our leaders. Is this idea. Of course there's going to be risks but we should not assume and we should not have a low regard for the lives of the people that we are having go there for us. You know we should say that yes. There are risks. But i'm going to do everything i can to keep you alive. Because that's what's going to make them trust you as a leader. Where do we think we're headed. And if you had to say if i look five years out this is what. I think we're gonna see happening around us. This is a really interesting question because if things continue the way they're going right now and only the super wealthy are able to buy tickets on these launch systems. What you're going to have is sort of the mass production of an extremely wealthy individual who was also gone to space and probably will be very passionate about space exploration when they return Whether or not they then open up their wallets for more than space. Tourism is something that i think is a possibility so maybe these billionaires recently returned from outer space. We'll decide. hey. I want to start funding space science. I want to found my own space flight company whether or not we want the elites the the wealthy elites to be holding the keys to outer space is definitely another question but there is the potential for more investment from the private sector because these people have had spaceflight experiences and of course they don't have to fund it with their own money. They can also advocate their political representatives for more public funding to nasa and other national spaceflight agencies even if they are sort of being a bit reduced in their in their roles as sort of leftover organizations founded during the cold war. And do you look at this and say that we've kind of jumped the shark and that is now the private sector. That's going to believe that they have to carry. Are they are going to carry the weight on this or do you think governments are going to be back to a sputnik moment where they say. We're losing we've got a we've got a step it up all over again. I don't think that that will happen. I worry about. I worry about the role of nasa going forward. Nasa has has done an incredible job with space. Science robotic exploration of mars with the international space station and i would love to see a renewed funding for nasa and the larger role for them going forward in the future almost as a check on some of these private companies as well. We have right now. The system of public private partnerships were nasa is collaborating with each of these companies providing information some launch facilities expertise even the astronauts to fly on space x missions. So far have been nasa trained astronauts. So i would hope that nasr's role doesn't fade. But i worry that it will because there will be this sort of idea of redundancy but will we don't see in these private companies this an interest in space science. You know you elon. Musk is not planning to send rovers tomorrow to search for life he's not interested in sending probes to saturn and the outer planets. I worry that space science will fall to the wayside and this idea of space is a place for science and exploration things that can actually benefit all of us at least the accumulation formation of knowledge. I worry that that peace will be left if we go just to the commercial spaceflight experience for the wealthy paradigm..
Against The Odds
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"In our last episode sir. Ernest shackleton put together a crew of twenty eight men to sail from england to antarctica their goal to be the first man to cross the entirety of the frozen continent but before they could set foot on shore. Their ship was hemmed in on all sides by pathways trapping them in the middle of the sea. Now ice has attacked and their lives and their mission are state. Meanwhile almost a hundred years later three descendants shackleton's crew set off to recreate the great explorers. Nineteen oh eight tracks to the south pole. The only problem there unprepared for the challenges. That shackleton's an article will.
Against The Odds
Endurance: Surviving Antarctica
"January night. Nineteen o nine. Ernest shackleton groans as he trudges through the hard packed snow now. A bitter headwind cuts through his jacket freezing his breath among his hands. The temperature is minus nineteen degrees pulled by any standards but with the wind chill. It's closer to minus fifty shackleton's feet and ears are covered with blisters and the black char frostbite. He's weakened by hunger and head splitting altitude sickness. He and his crew have trekked over seven hundred miles south across the vast expanse of antarctic snow their goal is to reach beyond engine the known world and be the first humans to ever reach the south pole. An expedition the public had been calling the nimrod after the name of his ship. Their journey has taken almost two and half months still before them an endless white plateau of snow and ice. The poll is out there somewhere. Shackleton has been on this continent once before six years ago. It was his first antarctic expedition under the leadership of captain robert. Scott scott was brooding and temperamental. he ruled by bullying. An absolute authority. Shackleton was the opposite. he was optimistic. Open and warm as conditions grew more difficult on that eight month journey tension was deck when frost by and low rash slowed them to a crawl. Scott yelled keep going you bloody fools but they turn back from the poll. Nearly five hundred miles out by the time shackleton got back to the ship. He was coughing up blood now. He has another shot this time. His leading a four man through and he isn't going to make scott's mistakes. The last month has been slow going. He looks at his men's haggard faces for weeks now. They've had little to eat
The Science Show
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"May i was able to spend some awakaned with who going through that. Materialists is about which was just a real when fool. Guess what. I thought i knew the story. But you brought it to life in ways which was so unexpected and frankly riveting emotional but what about. Ernest shackleton himself because this irish boy who went for the family to london into college college famous private school in other words. And when did he get his leadership qualities from because at each point when there was some sort of crisis and that was almost every day he had to lead he had to be kind. He had to be insightful. Where did that child sort of genius come from. That's a really interesting question. I di- i think maybe native talent. He had certainly had plenty of interesting experience. As a young man he went to say very early as part of the mitch navy so he had gathered a lot of experience below decks as a young man but also he had head to very quickly learn how to get on with people of the higher rank as well when he was very young. I he was twenty seven. He went to antarctica. As part of captain scott's discovery expedition. And i think that that was probably a formative experience in terms of relating to the royal navy men done in a particular way so i think he gathered quite a lot of experience during that expedition but also once. He decided that he wanted to late. His iron expedition south. He had to learn the out of persuasion. He had to not only assuage main to follow him but he also ahead to persuade sponsors to provide funds to the expedition as well. I think he was probably a very has waste of charming guy. He certainly trumped when he chomped aristocracy. Who said he wasn't just as chancer. He knew what he wanted and he refused to become a doctor as his father was a doctor so he knew that adventure and exploration was something he needed to do. And the impression i get from your book is that he worked out what was needed to be a good leader and very thoughtful about it. And of course when the endurance became embedded in the ice and then eventually disappeared an almost impossible challenge and he led the men through that they grizzled a bit but they were to miss supportive and then without telling the whole story of course he went in..
The Science Show
"ernest shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"The rest of the science show today is about soil snow and arse with lots of ernest shackleton but we get down to the good earth first by looking at some of its inhabitants slime molds where are the fond of them at the side show not least dogs vomit slime his sara lloyd with a foretaste in tasmania slime molds have mystified naturalists and scientists for centuries in about seventeen fifty when swedish botanist. Carl was devising his system of classification. He settled onto kingdoms plants and animals at the time. Slime molds thought to be fungi mostly because they reproduce by spores and are often found in much the same places as fungi so there are both included in the plant kingdom. It soon became clear that foggier different from plants. They don't have green sales for photosynthesis and this structure is very different. So the fungi. Kingdom was edited and slime mold were included but slime molds also have to feeding stages. The most conspicuous is the moving feeding stage known as the plasma modem and acl structure with multiple nuclear that no sill walls based on the fact that they move about and feed sly. Maude move briefly to the animal kingdom. There's modia which can be yellow white red blue or green. Feed on bacteria fungi. Algae probably each other usually within logs or stumps and other organic material but they are saying on the surface where they eventually form fruiting bodies. Interestingly it is this plasmodium stage that often makes the news because plasma modia which are one giant sill easy to keep in the laboratory on a dot of roads or e. coli or other bacteria experiments have demonstrated that they can find their way through mazes to find food and the have been used to design transport systems. the other leading stage is their single cell. Ame- boyd stage and based on this. They are now considered to be amoeba zones in the kingdom protester or productivity to a kingdom that includes a very diverse array of microorganisms. That are neither plant animal fungus. There are approximately one thousand species of slime all throughout the world with about three hundred and thirty species known from australia. I have found over one hundred and twenty different species in the what you look for us within about two hundred meters of my home in northern tasmania of these at least four when new to science. Well it is obviously an advantage to live in forested location with ready access to study these ephemeral unpredictable organisms myra search and increasing increasing interest in slime mold worldwide. Strongly suggests that slime mold of very common run of the reasons. I have escaped. People's attention is there every source of about two millimeters tall however they display a wonderful array of forms and colors and many are exquisitely beautiful with striking iridescence or delicate networks or threads. That in case the spoils there is certainly a burgeoning interest in these under studied organisms especially from macro photographers who are eager to catch their intricate forms. One of the most conspicuous in commonly seen species is fully guy. deka also known as dogs from it slime. It forms large usually yellow amorphous blogs up to twenty centimeters across on logs stumps and ground litter. It often appears on motion home gardens. Her it seems to particularly like coffee. Ground coffee ground in the forest. Well sara lloyd returns next week with lots on her work with slime mold around australia and more on dogs vomit slime. They'll be pleased to know..