I mean another day, another terrible news headline. The metaphor is exactly the opposite of what you want to happen with a lane on a glacier or on permafrost.
Are you implying that the author of brr.fyi is being disingenuous? I've enjoyed the writing, and I didn't take it as an objective documentary of a place, just somebody's subjective journal.
It's possible for different people to have very different experiences in a similar context for a variety of reasons, no?
That said, it's indeed been a while since the last update...
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 69.7 ms ] threadAn A340 which is longer, wider and heavier than the 787-9 has been flying down for at least two years now, but to a different airstrip.
The A340 can carry more passengers than the 787-9, and ironically the 787-9 in two-class configuration can only actually seat 290 people.
This would generally be very bad news.
This is Sky News’ bread and butter.
People are assuming the "world first" to apply to everything after "pilot idbehold", not exclusively to it.
"A historic moment for Norse," the airline said. "The first ever B787 Dreamliner to land in Antarctica!
Many kinds of aircraft have landed in Antartica, the largest of them being C5 Galaxy:
https://nara.getarchive.net/amp/media/a-c-5b-galaxy-aircraft...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/big-dead-place-the-wi...
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116183654/http://www.bigdea...
It's a much different story. And way more depressing.
It's possible for different people to have very different experiences in a similar context for a variety of reasons, no?
That said, it's indeed been a while since the last update...
You never know when you are going to break ice on the Alien/Predator site! We know what happened with the Thing...