AKA Pseudonym posted:

https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1666911689344962576?s=20

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

What are we even doing here? The sub has a single porthole window and god only knows how thick that fucker has to be to survive at depth. Just wire a monitor in front of that fucker and tool around for 12 hours at 30 feet while playing a video of a robot dive.

Deki posted:

Wait, they already had a disappearance scare and didn't put in a transponder or anything?

What the gently caress

gohuskies posted:

Great example of how hard this is on the families of the guys dying in the sub:

weg posted:

Sink 182



Dude looks like he's about to a fat life insurance/inheritance pay out lol

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

trying to figure out how this belongs in the everest thread

Facebook Aunt posted:

No, it's to look at.

Cactus Ghost posted:

everything he's written is good. i read into the wild in college and it definitely left an impression

Outrail posted:

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Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem

Oxygen? Check. Crampons? Check. Poop bags?… Check.

Those hoping to climb Everest this year will have to make some slight adjustments to their packing list, as new rules now mandate that climbers bring their excrement down with them from the world’s highest peak, in a bid to tackle pollution.

Most people who attempt to climb the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) Mount Everest do so via Nepal, paying $11,000 apiece just for the climbing permit.

With gear, food, supplemental oxygen, Sherpa guides and more, it costs upward of $35,000 to take on the mountain.

But the world’s highest peak has a poop problem, driven by the number of visitors, and the harsh conditions on the mountain, which interfere with the degradation process.

“The problem of human waste on Everest was very bad,” Diwas Pokhrel, first vice president of Everest Summiteers Association, told CNN, adding that at the mountain’s highest points, it was “polluting the mountain environment.”

This photograph taken on May 31, 2021 shows mountaineers lined up as they climb a slope during their ascend to summit Mount Everest.
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Without the new rules, the poo problem was highly likely to get worse: Last year, Nepal gave out a record 478 climbing permits to climb the peak. Twelve climbers were confirmed to have died on the mountain, while another five remain officially missing.

Jinesh Sindurakar of the Nepal Mountaineering Association told CNN that an estimated 1,200 people will be on Everest this season.

“Each person produces 250 grams (8.8 ounces) of excrement a day and they will spend 2 weeks on the higher camps for the summit push,” Sindurakar explained, adding that each climber will be given two poop bags, which can each be used six times.

The bags contain chemicals to solidify the human waste and make it odorless, Sindurakar said, and Nepal’s Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality will issue some 8,000 bags this season.