{"id":3972,"date":"2020-01-20T05:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2020-01-20T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:18:25","slug":"disconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2020\/01\/20\/disconnected\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictures of us all in the science tent, as we do every night – talking about the day\u2019s work and Johnny reading to us about the early Antarctic explorers.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In a world where internet is master, it has been quite a change of pace for us to be disconnected for now 5 weeks. Here in the field, we rely on downloaded music, movies, and books (except that downloaded items from streaming services delete after a month without internet connection…Lauren and Nicole were heartbroken that they couldn\u2019t watch the rest of Mrs. Maisel). Because we can\u2019t google every question, we listen to the knowledge of our teammates.
\n\"\"<\/a>I have actually enjoyed being disconnected, it has resulted in less distraction and more concentration on meteorite hunting and team work. It is wonderful that we have enough of a connection to be able to stay in contact with our loved ones using satellite phones. In our spare time, the team has amassed quite a book list; below we include books we have partially or fully finished while on this expedition.
\nEvery night, Johnny reads us diary entries from the explorers in the early 1900s*, who were trying to reach the South Pole first. We read the entry that corresponds to the specific day, for example today January 20th 2020, we read the January 20th journal entries of Shackleton\u2019s first attempt to the South Pole (1907-08) and the South Pole race between the teams of Scott and Amundson (1913). It is humbling to listen to their adventures and imagine ourselves in their shoes; wearing wool, fur or seal suits, having body temperatures of only 94 degrees F with frost-bitten hands and feet, and only eating biscuits, pemmican (a mixture of mostly meat, fat, and oats), and cocoa. The early explorers had no outside contact and spent a fair amount of time worrying if they would find their next food cache or survive all-together. We are living a warm and luxurious life in comparison!
\nAlso, special birthday shoutout to ANSMET member Lauren!! If you look closely at the pictures, you can figure out how old she turned \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

-From Emilie, listening to the sounds of popping ice instead of streaming music in Davis-Ward, Antarctica<\/em><\/p>\n

*Johnny’s nightly readings come from\u00a0The Race to the South Pole\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0by Roland Huntford and The Heart of the Antarctic<\/em> by Ernest Shackleton.<\/p>\n

ANSMET team reading list for 2019-2020: The Worst Journey in the World<\/em> by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, \u00a0Where the Crawdad\u2019s Sing<\/em> by Delia Owens,\u00a0The Water Dancer<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates,\u00a0Becoming<\/em> by Michelle Obama, Lonesome Dove<\/em> by Larry McMurtry, 1Q84<\/em> by Haruki Murakami, The Girl with Dragon Tattoo<\/em> by Stieg Larsson, Seabiscuit<\/em> by Laura Hittenbrand,\u00a0Bold Endeavors<\/em> by Jack Stuster,\u00a0Shackleton\u2019s Forgotten Men<\/em> by Lenard Bickel,\u00a0Son of the Morning Star<\/em> by Evan S. Connell,\u00a0Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids<\/em> by Neyda Abreu,\u00a0Accelerando<\/em> by Charles Stross,\u00a0A Deepness in the Sky<\/em> by Vernor Vinge,\u00a0The Children of the Sky<\/em> by Vernor Vinge,\u00a0The Wheel of Time Series (books 1 through 6)<\/em> by Robert Jordan,\u00a0The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power<\/em> by Daniel Yergin,\u00a0The Longest Winter<\/em> by Meredith Hooper,\u00a0Optics of Charged Particles<\/em> by Hermann Wollnik,\u00a0Beloved<\/em> by Toni Morrison,\u00a0Moral Tribes<\/em> by Joshua Green,\u00a0The Gambler \/ Bobok \/ A Nasty Story<\/em> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,\u00a0The Possessed<\/em> by Albert Camus,\u00a0Sapiens<\/em> by Yuval Noah Havari,\u00a0A Candle in the Wind<\/em> by Alexander Solzhenitsyn,\u00a0Marking Time<\/em> by Dunan Steel and \u00a0Moll Flanders<\/em>\u00a0by Daniel Defoe.<\/p>\n

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In a world where internet is master, it has been quite a change of pace for us to be disconnected for now 5 weeks. Here in the field, we rely on downloaded music, movies, and books (except that downloaded items from streaming services delete after a month without internet connection…Lauren and Nicole were heartbroken that they couldn\u2019t watch the rest of Mrs. Maisel). Because we can\u2019t google every question, we listen to the knowledge of our teammates.
\n<\/a>I have actually enjoyed being disconnected, it has resulted in less distraction and more concentration on meteorite hunting and team work.<\/p>\n

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