If you have, what's it like? And also, has anyone ever met an American with common sense? If so, what was it like?
I'll probably get thumbs down as you won't find either on Yahoo Answers.
2007-01-01 05:34:32 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I'm just joking! I think the Americans are great.
2007-01-01 05:47:14 · update #1
Nearest I've been to the North Pole is Oulu, Finland.
I forgot to answer the rest of the question!
It was really beautiful, minus seven celcius and there was a foot of snow!
The days were very short - 10am till 3pm sunlight, and it never got very bright. The snow and the sky were similar pale blue colour as the sun went down, and everything seemed so still and peaceful - really beautiful.
2007-01-01 05:39:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I have not been myself but if you really want to know what it's like, the most recent edition of National Geographic has a good article on 2 men who did go there and their experiences along the way. As for common sense, it's said the smartest people are lacking in that department so I guess we're a smart scatterbrain country (not speaking for all indiviuals though I know some dumb people with no sense whatsoever). Einstein was said to not have much goin on there either, he was kind of an airhead but the book smarts he had, wow.
2007-01-01 05:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by princessforever1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cook, Peary and Byrd all faked their claims to the North Pole. The first team to indisputably reach the North Pole was Lincoln Ellsworth (USA), Umberto Nobile (Italy), and Roald Amundsen (Norway), and a crew of 13 others, on the dirigible Norge, May 12, 1926.
2007-01-01 08:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, lots of people have been near and to the North Pole. It's even a tourist attraction now.
Has anyone ever met a non-American with ANY sense?
2007-01-01 07:31:28 · answer #4 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As i can believe it's too cold to be near the north pole. And Yes, Americans have common sense, we just express it in different ways. I'm proud to be american, so back off.
2007-01-01 05:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first person to the North Pole was Admiral Robert E. Peary on April 6, 1909. Just check your history books or ask any history teacher.
2007-01-01 08:04:09 · answer #6 · answered by texasman_1971a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greater direct photograph voltaic strikes the Earth, the hotter this is. you could experience this your self - at midday the solar is a lot warmer than at dawn or sundown. whilst photograph voltaic strikes the Earth at an perspective, the warmth power is unfold over a much wider section and so each and every little bit of earth gets much less power. same with region on the earth. on the equator, the photograph voltaic hits in simple terms approximately immediately down, as a result there is greater warmth power (this is greater concentrated) than on the poles, the place the photograph voltaic strikes at an perspective.
2016-10-06 07:14:30 · answer #7 · answered by kroner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not been to the North Pole, but I have been to Canada
and Alaska and that is pretty close to the North Pole...closer than most people have been in fact.
It was very cold when I was there. Lots of auto and truck engines were left running so they would not freeze up.
2007-01-01 11:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thousands have been underneath the North Pole ,on Nuclear submarines.
But no one will admit it here.
Nearest i have been is flying over Greenland.
2007-01-01 07:39:28 · answer #9 · answered by psychodad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Admiral Byrd, I think was his name, around 1900.
And it was cold, very cold.
2007-01-01 06:13:45 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋