#whoknew — Public Fediverse posts

#WhoKnew about this truly #insane #unreal #enduranceFlying #worldrecord ? I was surprised it was longer than a few days. But #twoMonths ?!?

#JustWow that the #airplane did not overheat and the engine did not seize up and they were able to tolerate each other's company for that long #uninterrupted in that #veryLoud, tiny environment.

#continuousFlying #inAirRefueling #midAirRefueling #Cessna #Cessna172

#crampedQuarters #soLoud #noPrivacy #thermosMeals

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/longest-ever-continuous-flight-1959/index.html

#WhoKnew - not that #dogs, #sledDogs, helped to #explore #Antarctica. That's not really a surprise. But that they were #bred down there for many years - and then #culled #killed, not #retired and #caredFor as they deserved - when their use was deemed over 😡.

Yes, cute profiles. Hope the cards all get digitized if they haven't been yet. These dogs deserve a #searchableDatabase. And were samples taken from any of them for #DNAtesting later when it was available? Would be fun to see where, if anywhere, their #descendants ended up. #dogDNA #dogGenealogy

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dogs-explored-antarctica via @atlas

They at least deserve a feature-length #documentary/ other #movie. The only one I've found so far was a fictionalized one about a group of abandoned #Japanese sled dogs there , #EightBelow
https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/the-dogs-in-eight-below-not-the-breed-you-saw/

#dogsOfMastodon #doggo #doggos #dogsOfAntarctica #workingDogs #hardWorkers #hardWork #toughJob #toughJobs#brutalConditions

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