More news on the Franklin Expedtion

[Aardvark154]

More news on the Franklin Expedition now the supposition is Addison's Disease rather than Lead Poisoning:

https://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/view/4629/4823

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...klin-expedition-DIDNT-die-lead-poisoning.html

 

[SexyFriendsTO]

For some reason I was always interested and fascinated by this expedition. Even ended up watching The Terror series but of course it wasn't the monster that ate the crew. Wouldn't they get tested before boarding the ship or perhaps back in those days they had no clue how to test for tuberculosis?

 

[oldjones]

For some reason I was always interested and fascinated by this expedition. Even ended up watching The Terror series but of course it wasn't the monster that ate the crew. Wouldn't they get tested before boarding the ship or perhaps back in those days they had no clue how to test for tuberculosis?

The TB patch test we used to line up for in school was only developed after WW1. Before that, the only way to detect TB was to wait until you were so sick that it couldn't be anything else.

 

[JackBurton]

Fascinating! I’ve been following the Franklin expedition story since they found the ship a few years ago. I love all those stories of expeditions that most certainly would be a one way trip. The spirit of human nature is to explore. Those guys were the most manly men who lived by their wits in a godforsaken wilderness. I also love the story of Shackleton and Magellan.

Hard men. Hard lives and today’s men should take a lesson from the pages of history of the tenacity of those explorers and use them as inspiration.

 

[SirWanker]

Hard men. Hard lives and today’s men should take a lesson from the pages of history of the tenacity of those explorers and use them as inspiration.

The final frontier beckons....

 

[oldjones]

Fascinating! I’ve been following the Franklin expedition story since they found the ship a few years ago. I love all those stories of expeditions that most certainly would be a one way trip. The spirit of human nature is to explore. Those guys were the most manly men who lived by their wits in a godforsaken wilderness. I also love the story of Shackleton and Magellan.

Hard men. Hard lives and today’s men should take a lesson from the pages of history of the tenacity of those explorers and use them as inspiration.

You should be watching Hillary — Sir Edmund, not Ms. Clinton — on PBS then. The last episode covered the first ever crossing of Antarctica in 1958. Still some one-way moments, even that recently.

 

[kherg007]

Fascinating! I’ve been following the Franklin expedition story since they found the ship a few years ago. I love all those stories of expeditions that most certainly would be a one way trip. The spirit of human nature is to explore. Those guys were the most manly men who lived by their wits in a godforsaken wilderness. I also love the story of Shackleton and Magellan.

Hard men. Hard lives and today’s men should take a lesson from the pages of history of the tenacity of those explorers and use them as inspiration.

Totally agree. I remember when they dug up the well preserved bodies...the creepy look of the dead blokes. Fascinating....

 

[oldjones]

It's not just the men who should take a lesson, but especially the women (it's actually mainly only feminists of both genders) who demonize those uniquely masculine behaviours.

Nonsense.

 

[JackBurton]

You should be watching Hillary — Sir Edmund, not Ms. Clinton — on PBS then. The last episode covered the first ever crossing of Antarctica in 1958. Still some one-way moments, even that recently.

Thanks!