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Re: Explorers or adventurers?
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Jul 4, 21:20 -0400
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Jul 4, 21:20 -0400
George Huxtable wrote: > On 3rd July 2002, under the thread "Reaching the Pole", I said, referring > to the expeditions to the South Pole by Amundsen and Scott- > > >To me, the whole business was a tragic exercise in futility. That such > >teams should devote their energies, and for some, their lives, to being the > >first to reach an otherwise undistinguished spot in a barren wasteland, > >seems such a waste of human endeavour. > > This seems to have raised a few hackles, politely expressed. Eno responds:: If we all agreed with one another there'd be nothing to discuss or debate and that would be boring.
