Comments on: MetaFilter meetups on seven continents

MetaFilter meetups on seven continents

Plutor — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:56:59 -0800

MeFi's own eotvos is organizing a tenth anniversary meetup in Antarctica. We have officially conquered this planet.

Anyone know anyone currently on the ISS?

By: Pants!

Pants! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:59:52 -0800

Or any submarine crews?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:06:14 -0800

Now begins "Phase Two"

I'll get the robots.

By: FishBike

FishBike — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:08:07 -0800

Two words: Awe. Some.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:45 -0800

They're not really meeting, they'll just be chilling...

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:32:09 -0800

This makes me absurdly happy.

By: FishBike

FishBike — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:32:18 -0800

Also, doesn't this now give Antarctica the highest 10th anniversary meetup attendance per capita?

By: sperose

sperose — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:45:28 -0800

Holy shit that is so badass.

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:54:08 -0800

The meetup with the professional white background.

By: typewriter

typewriter — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:54:34 -0800

AWESOME!!!
I'm looking at you, North Pole.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:29 -0800

I like how you have to zoom out to see it on the map.

By: Item

Item — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:20:07 -0800

Pretty much makes it official: if you are an active Metafilter member and you do not attend the nearest 10th meetup then you are more than a little bit pathetic.

By: strixus

strixus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 -0800

Wow. I has a Happy.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:46:30 -0800

Sorry Item, I was in a car accident in which my car was totalled, and I can't afford the train + bus fare to get to Chicago. Thanks for making me feel pathetic though!

By: Item

Item — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:43 -0800

No problem!

sorry

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:46 -0800

We could have a meetup on one of those floating ship "countries," except they know we're all like LOLBERTARIAN around here.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:18:52 -0800

> We could have a meetup on one of those floating ship "countries,"

Problem is most of those are still in the drydocks, so it would probably be more like hanging out in jersey...

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:40 -0800

Oh, man, we should have booked Sealand.

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:32:10 -0800

This is cool.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:36:13 -0800

I can host one in Second Life. Does that count?

By: grobstein

grobstein — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:46:23 -0800

Depends. Are you Charley Nesson?

By: Miko

Miko — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:50:30 -0800

All well and good, but what happened to that RPM project, you lagasses at the pole? Huh? Out with it!

By: rtha

rtha — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:16 -0800

I'm pleased to be part of a group that rules the planet, oh heck yeah!

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:20:23 -0800

This raised the question for me of what time zone Antarctica occupies. Of course, the internet had an answer.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:14 -0800

Item: "No problem!

sorry"

it's okay, that was tongue-in-cheek. ;) I am really disappointed that I can't go, though.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:30:41 -0800

I'm pleased to be part of a group that rules the planet, oh heck yeah!

I would rather rule the group that rules the planet. How much for cabal membership again?

By: rtha

rtha — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:36:05 -0800

Jesus Christ. There is no cabal.

check your mefimail. Hope you've got adequate funds in the bank.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:52:10 -0800

I'm ashamed for the country of my birth that there is no meet-up in Iceland.

I bet it's Delaware's fault.

By: Memo

Memo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:59:29 -0800

No meet-up in Chile
and traitorous signal is going to Argentina's.

By: empyrean

empyrean — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:16:37 -0800

We have people in Antarctica? We have people in Antartica.

I'll ship a few cases of black paint down, someone in the cabal needs to check our Google Maps insiders for the next satellite fly-by. I want MeFi shout outs in Antarctica, stat.

By: vapidave

vapidave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:39:23 -0800

And at the height of the Austral winter no less. eotvos if I had a Paypal account I would refund your $5.00.

By: rtha

rtha — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:13:51 -0800

Someone point eotvos to the shoutout sheets that fandango_matt put together a while back. I's do it but I can't remember where they are, and anyway I'm off to bed in a minute.

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:30:35 -0800

From th Arctic, I bow down before the awesomeness of this.

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:16:11 -0800

Jesus Christ. There is no cabal.

Do you mean that I was scammed when the guy sold me this Cabal Modem?

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:17:23 -0800

Europe seems terribly poorly represented. Nothing in Spain, France, Germany, any of the low countries. Here in Southern Spain, my nearest meet is in London - 1616km away as the crow flies (according to Wolfram|Alpha). Shame...

By: scody

scody — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:41:36 -0800

Well, if there's a meetup in Argentina, then the fake meetup on the Appalachian Trail is unneccessary now, no?

By: atrazine

atrazine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:44:59 -0800

I think a lot of the Dutch mefites are actually going to the London meetup.

By: jouke

jouke — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:57:00 -0800

benzo8 I think this is the occasion to have a bigger european meetup.
I got a bit tired of the Dutch meetups that tend to be 2 - 3 people. So I tried to organise a meetup for the whole of europe in Berlin. When that fizzled I joined the London meetup.
Short version: join us in London. I'm sure you can crash on some local mefites couch.
although I wish we could all convene in Granada

By: delfuego

delfuego — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:51:07 -0800

Is it just me, or is that meetup no longer scheduled/showing up on the map?

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:21:08 -0800

This is really, really cool. Pun intended.

By: FishBike

FishBike — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:35:54 -0800

Is it just me, or is that meetup no longer scheduled/showing up on the map?

It's not just you. Over in the official thread it says:

[Updated the location to the South Pole, but Google Maps is having trouble placing a marker.]
posted by pb at 11:22 AM on July 4 [!]

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:34:11 -0800

I don't know what conditions are like at the pole (besides cold even for a Canadian I'm guessing) or whether station members are allowed to go outside but if they can it would be very awesome for them to make a quick trip around the pole during the meet up there by allowing us to claim a meet up in every longitude. IE: an atomic around the world meet up.

By: FishBike

FishBike — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:33:45 -0800

I don't know what conditions are like at the pole...

Current windchill, -74 C (-101 F). Brrrr.

(source: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/NZSP.html

By: elfgirl

elfgirl — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:26:15 -0800

Take plenty of dogs!

By: The Devil Tesla

The Devil Tesla — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:54:40 -0800

Europe seems terribly poorly represented
That continent is so LAZY

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:37:47 -0800

Current windchill, -74 C (-101 F). Brrrr.

Damn. Guess that means I have to stop complaining to my Southern friends when it hits -40C windshield here.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:40:09 -0800

I like how the East Coast U.S meetup pins neatly follow I-95

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:01:20 -0800

FishBike -- that's only the wind chill... the actual air temperature is -72 F (-58 C), so there's nothing to be... holy shit

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:34:29 -0800

That continent is so LAZY

We've been busy. You'll see.

By: deborah

deborah — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:17:47 -0800

Take plenty of dogs!

Or Tauntauns.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:23:42 -0800

...or whether station members are allowed to go outside...

Oh they can go out, but they may be some time...