A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to the Manhattan Project

Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by scrubs on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @02:28PM (#37137505)

Lived in the nwt for many years as a kid. Highlights? A lot:

- good schools. I miss Ms. Carter

- travel extensively through Yukon

- great shape: shoveled a lot of snow and frozen Canadian ice cream. Lots of cross country skiing

- maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa

- had a decent fossil collection for a while

- got into a lot of trouble (having fun). Still know k-6 principal name (Ms. Wind and her paddle. She might remember me too).

- awesome/epic snowball fights. I should have pitched for the Yankees

- appreciation for beauty of land nature

- caught my first fish in the keele River. Smoked it

- cold nights makes well read kids

- a piece of sputnik fell to earth not too far from us

- as ref almost all Canadians live very close to us border. The nwt capital (yellowknife) is on great slave lake about 40 degree north. You live there because you are a native, geologist, government worker. Named after local tribe

- great bear lake is one lake up from great slave

- Unofficial national dessert? Strawberry short cake or rhubarb pie.

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by mc32 on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @02:34PM (#37137569)

Hopefully it didn’t follow the Princeton tradition of lacing the balls with rocks : http://www.universitypressclub.com/archive/2014/02/tbt-epic-...

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by pdonis on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @02:59PM (#37137832)

> The nwt capital (yellowknife) is on great slave lake about 40 degree north

I think you mean about 62 degrees north latitude?

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by AlotOfReading on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:11PM (#37138757)

I suspect they looked up the latitude for the Great Salt lake instead, which is around 41N or ~40N if you're rounding down to SLC.

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by aidenn0 on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @03:58PM (#37138595)

> - maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa

It's fairly findable in the Northeast (as is maple walnut fudge). The best maple walnut ice cream I've ever had was at a place called Brickley's[1] in Rhode Island.

1: https://www.brickleys.com/

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by scrubs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:27PM (#37169658)

You're right. If you are in Maine or north of Boston you can probably get it ie NE corner of US. I'm NYC area ... and it's persona non grata. Thanks for the link

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by aidenn0 on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:19AM (#37171938)

I'd put the "must be north of" city at Hartford for the ice cream, but you're right about the NYC area. I've seen maple-walnut fudge as far south as Pennsylvania though.

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by opticfluorine on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:00PM (#37138613)

Is maple walnut ice cream not a thing across the US? I grew up in New England not far from the Canadian border, now live in upstate NY and have easy access to maple walnut ice cream. Never realized how lucky I was.

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by also23throwaway on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:12PM (#37138768)

Don’t live in the northeast, and this is the first time I’m hearing about the existence of maple walnut ice cream.

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Re:A mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to t... by ghc on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:58PM (#37141895)

> maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa

First I've heard of it being hard to find. It's everywhere in New England.

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