Cold.
What makes the Antartic, and the Artic, so cold? Colder than anywhere else on Earth. Or at least icy-er. Why do those particular spots, at the top, and the bottom of the earth, get to be the coldest? I don't like it one little bit.
Also. How come we just don't get one of those big fuck off icebergs and put it in the Thompson damn - so we can at least have more than 60 days of water left? We could tow one to shore, then chop it up into manageable bits, and drop it in.
Look, I'm not a logistical planner, okay.
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Haha! My inner geography nerd comes to the fore...
The area between the two tropics is where the sun is strongest.
If you can imagine shining a light on a tennis ball from the side, the most light falls on the bits of the ball directly facing the sun.
As the sides of the ball taper towards the top and bottom, the rays of light have a much larger area to heat because they hit the angled surface of the ball.
The further north and south on the globe you go, the principle is the same. The higher the degrees of latitude, the more area the sun's rays must heat up.
One of the poles is always angled away from the sun in winter, so you get days with no sunlight at all for a while.
On the opposite pole, which is angled towards the sun, you get permanent daylight for a period.
The Hack (standing in for Rob and Deane on The Curiosity Show).
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