“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“[In Antarctica] the ice seems a living presence. The wind that rubs against it gives it voice. It is a voice of experience. It is a voice we should heed.”
— Robert Lee Hotz
Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
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“Each cylinder is about 10 percent ancient air, a pristine time capsule of greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide — all unchanged from the day that snow formed and first fell.”
— Robert Lee Hotz on ice taken from bore holes in Antarctica
Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
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“Ice and snow accumulates [in the WAIS Divide] 10 times faster than anywhere else in Antarctica. They have to dig themselves out every day. It makes for an exotic and chilly commute.”
— Robert Lee Hotz
Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
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