Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt

Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by 2AF3 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:37PM (#12492487)

Reminds me of when the military dug up corpses from the artic so they could get at the 1917 Spanish flu

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:59PM (#12493766)

Link?

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by NoPiece on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:34PM (#12493884)

Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article about it for the New Yorker in 1997.

http://gladwell.com/the-dead-zone/

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by ptaipale on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:22AM (#12496110)

Fascinating, but can someone explain why the text reads

  I–PERMAFROST
  
  On September 24, viagra 1918, three days after setting sail ...

What does that "VIAGRA" (on a small caps font) do there?

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by onlycommenting on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:41AM (#12496231)

Looks like the blog was hacked at some point, and what you are looking at is old SEO spam.

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:56PM (#12500136)

Note that it links to buyviagraonlinefree dot net.

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Re:Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Pas... by pinko on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:45PM (#12493932)

I've never heard of this before, but a quick Google revealed this article (along others), which is probably what 2AF3 is referring to. Not sure of the military connection.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-11-18/news/9911180290_...

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