In 1980, Ted Turner launched a 24-hour cable news channel appropriately called Cable News Network, or CNN. He vowed to keep bringing us news until the end of the world. And CNN made preparations for just such an event. Turner said,
We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event. We'll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June [the day CNN launched], and when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God To Thee' before we sign off.
Turner no longer owns CNN, but the video is still there, still ready to play, labeled “hold for release” until the end of the world is confirmed …although it’s a little fuzzy as to who would confirm it. Michael Ballaban was an intern at CNN in 2009, and found the video. It’s in a format more appropriate for 1980 TV sets, but you can watch the band play at Jalopnik. -via Uproxx
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This is probably a case of him subconsciously (or consciously if he has trained to do it) opening a metabolic pathway that is normally closed. It probably uses up a lot of energy, but it seems a much better way to survive extreme cold than sacrificing the extremities.
chilly story.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The article says “…climbing the Everest in his shorts”. Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm….
well he's dutch, and in the Netherlands we don't have hills, our biggest one is 300 meter :P. but its the everst.
i've seen te guy in action, standing in a ice tank for wel over an hour, than climbing out under own power. (2 meter high tank.