What are these continents you speak of? I see no boundaries from orbit...

Oceans and the Urals.

Assuming there is no cloud cover you should be able to see them. :)

Radar can also be helpful. Lidar not so much.

At this point i'm the only person to respond with Asia. I live in Japan, Nagoya prefecture (state), irigaike kouen (sub section), right near the mag-lev train.

Im the only one to answer south america, I live in Bogotá Colombia, I like Japan a lot, I keep on watching Anime everyday, I know there is more people from around here but they dont get into this forums :(

has anyone here besides me even been to antiritica? it is a great place to write programs beacsue there is no one there to annoy you.

I've also heard it's rather cold; your calc might freeze solid! (that would not be good) :-)

even if it didn't freeze it would sure slow down in temperatures like that. keep that fire goin...

It wouldn't slow down - haven't you ever heard of superconductivity?

Well, I think that -200 degrees does not cause conventional materials to superconduct...

True, no superconductivity, but it does decrease resistance.

If the temperature gets below about 40 Fahrenheit my TI-86's screen runs more slowly (it slowly morphs from one thing to another like a slow-phosphor CRT would). I seriously doubt the LCD freezing solid could be good for it, & the batteries also probably do not like being frozen, but yes, I doubt the circuits would mind.

where do you live. how did your calc get to -40.

no, he means <+40°F

oops somehow I missed that. It is suposto get to zero this weekend here.

Fahrenheit? Where are you at?

Oh, your in Alaskan time, that makes more sence.

Good point: I hadn't thought about the LCD - it would freeze!

I'm in Wisconsin now, so I can try that!

On a side note, I wish I had a thermometer. It's supposed to be 42°F here, but I'm in my dorm room with the window open.

Me too! I'm in Massachusetts, in a dorm room, with the window open, wearing shorts, as always. It is probably <0 degrees celsius outside. For some reason my radiator gives off way too much heat. If my window is closed, my room gets to be noticably hotter than the hall. I like the fresh air, but the wasted energy makes me sad.

ahh yeah. :( i meant the LCD in my original post, not the processing speed (i have no clue how temperature affects that, i only paid enough attention in AP chem to score well on the test, nothing more)... i always left my stuff in my car during highschool, so in winter when i'd take in to the library to work on homework before class in the morning, i could work almost as fast but... the screen's contrast was low and loading screens and menus was terribly slow. and it lasted all day... my 89 didn't warm up at all unless i kept it in my pocket, which was awkward because it was so cold...

That would be in the realm of physics, not chemistry.

well then neither my hs pssc physics nor my physics I class have so much as touched the subject, and therefor i still don't know jack about superconductivity, regardless of its realm.

I had my 89 in my backpack the other year, standing outside for the bus in -5 degree weather (Fahrenheit). After a few minutes I took it out and noticed that one corner of the screen was black (while it was off, and not black in distinctive pixels, kinda overflown). I quickly turned it on and rubbed the screen abit and it went back to normal. It was rather wierd though, I'm not quite sure why it would do that...

Why were you in Antarctica? I've never known anybody thats even known anybody whos been to Antartica. Although they say that everybody knows everybody through six people or less. Therefore, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows George Bush.

Not just you heard - it's been proven.

Now if we only knew the four people between Bush and bin Laden.
But I think we can apply Heisenberg to that.

my neighbor went to antartica, I think.

How would you distribut your programs? I would like to know. Even wit ha satellite-wireless labtop, everntually the batteries would lose power and freeze.

Solar power? Burn snow to generate steam?

Or...a fusion reactor of course! I happpen to be in possession of a fully-functioning prototype reactor, with constant power output of 1.2 MW....well, until the plasma got away from the magnetic fields for a split second and burned a rather large hole through one the walls...<sigh>

bring fuel run generators ruin our enviornment. there is a reison why there is no country on antarctica there is no comercial resion to live there.

...Until someone discovers miraculous deposits of oil lurking a mile under the ice... ^_^

Still Antarctica's a great place, especially if you need to chill out....

Sorry...Bad joke!

I laughed...