"Andrew Smallshaw" wrote in message
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| On 2008-07-31, Androcles wrote:
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| After you've terraformed Antarctica, a whole continent with plenty of
| water, ideal atmosphere, beautiful Earthlike gravity, and after you've
| grown grapes there in the six months of continuous sunshine, then
| I'll consider mining for gold or diamonds in some other planet's
| hostile environment. BTW, what's the local time at the South Pole?
|
| The Amundsen-Scott base keeps New Zealand time.

Uh huh... and what about Faraday and Mid-Point Charlie and McMurdo and ...

http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/RadarSat.html


Even in Iceland its pretty hard to pin down the time of sunset and that's a
well
populated island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Not too many palm
trees
but lots of glorious sunshine and the hot springs make it an attractive
place to
live, much better than Mars.