Jeff C. has come aboard as a volunteer online resident of Model Polar City One, which hopefully will be up and running in 2015 in Longyearbyen, Norway. Until then, Jeff explains why he joined this team -- in his own words:"I first heard of this polar cities idea on G4tv in Ohio. They aired it on that geek cable TV show 2 nights ago during the show. Thought it was the best idea i've seen yet."
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"My name is Jeff, I am 18, married and with one baby girl on the way. My profession as of now is computers. I have built 5 personal-use computers as well as set up networking for an entire store as well as their registers and so on. "
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"I will soon be changing my profession as I am going into the Air National Guard and then into MP. I will then be taking courses at Blackwater International for evasion driving, pistol courses and rifle and tactical courses. I want to make my ability to shoot as well as work on electronics my stronghold. Since in our day and age the military is more and more relying on computers so do half the job i figure i need to know how to fix them if it comes down to that. I've been reading books on programing and ... hacking .. as well as i've done alot of web graphic design in my day. So I hope I can contribute in a postive way to the Model Polar City experiment online in this way, with my ideas and feedback."
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"As of right now, i'm am out of high school acuiring my GED. I live in Toledo, Ohio. I first heard of the polar cities, as I said above, on a geeks tv show called G4TV. "
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"I was drawn in by the concept and i would more than happily become a virtual member to help get this idea up and running. Many of times i fear about gobal warming and this is most certtenly a first step to defeating it. The government is acting too slow so we the people need to do something about it now and not later. I hope that in the future we will be able to clean up our mess of global warming and rebuild the Earth itself, if you will, and i will be able to see green plants and real trees again, but all i can see now is concrete jungles."
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"The earth is bleeding and this water will be its blood. Personally, I believe that there is nothing we can humanly do at this point to stop global warming so the least we can do is protect our selves from it and hope that we can fix it in the future. "
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"I hope and pray that mankind in the future will not forget the day that the earth was ingulffed, may it be ice water or fire, i hope that the people that survive if any do not forget and do not make the same mistakes again."
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"If i came aboard the actual model polar city, i would bring alot of skills and knowledge with me. I have the skills and knowledge to train a security force to defend and guard us, and i have also the knowledge to build and operate computer systems if the resources are availible. After going through basic training, i will be able to train a military force even further."
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"In addition, since i do not beleive it is efficient to train all your soldiers diffrently, i beleive all soldiers should have the HIGHEST training possible for example the nation of Isreal where the Israeli Defense Forces mostly all have special forces training for close quarters combat as well as disarming training and so on."
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"To sum this up, i will bring many skills with me, as well as the knowledge and mindset we will need to make this happen."
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TV NEWS LINK:
POLAR CITY IMAGES: (prelimary models)
BACKGROUND INFO:
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ABOVE PHOTO CAPTION: [Jeff C. in Army uniform. With an airsoft loadout. He plays airsoft and owns one really ar-15 as well as other airsoft guns.]
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Jeff,
Here is an example of what life in a real polar city might be like in the far distant future, where security issues will be important.
HEADLINE:
What's it like being a pupil at Model Polar City One, the northernmost school in the world?
BYLINE: by our special correspodent at Polar Cities Media HQ
futureposted in 2121 A.D. at http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
IMAGINE THIS PHOTO & CAPTION: [Pupils arrive at Longyearbyen Model Polar City school on August 21, 2121 --the northernmost school in the
world.]
TEXT OF NEWS ARTICLE:
The first day of term at Longyearbyen Model Polar City One school is unlike anywhere else. Wild reindeer walk in
and out of the grounds with no one giving it a thought, while inside,
a stuffed polar bear and baby seal stand in the cafeteria of the
upper-secondary section. Welcome to the northernmost school in the
world, situated in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, set between the
North Pole and the northern coast of the country it belongs to,
Norway.
Stuffed seals and wild reindeers are not the only things that set
apart this Polar City school, where 1,230 pupils aged between six and 18
began term last week. The school holds several rifles on its grounds,
which are used to protect students against pirates and human marauders roaming the
archipelago. More than 40 were spotted near Longyearbyen in 2004, so
teachers need to be armed when taking classes on outings into the
mountains surrounding this polar city of some 20,000 people.
The school's originality reflects the very special town it is set in.
It was founded in 1906 by US industrialist John Munroe Longyear, who
fell in love with the place after a holiday there. The word "byen",
which means "the city" in Norwegian, was added. Longyear established
the archipelago's major economic activity, coal mining. But that was before global warming become the problem it became...
Svalbard's barren nature - there are neither trees nor insects and
fewer animal species than in the now uninhabited temperate zones - is reflected in the
school's curriculum.
Later this year, students over the age of 16 will go on survival
courses. "They will learn how to behave in nature, how to find a safe place to
camp or how to deal with pirates and marauders," explains Mr Blanc.
At the school, all students have widely
diverse backgrounds. "We have 75 nations represented," says
headteacher Terry Fennander.
Outside a classroom at the end of the school day, we meet Torgeir
Brekke, 10, who plans to invent a robot with a laser drilling machine
in its head when he grows up. "I play with people who are in fourth
grade, even though I'm in the fifth grade," he says.
Maybe Google will fund pola cities research in the future? Possible. Or Richard Branson or Bill Gates. In an AFP story on Google funding on global warming issues, Google’s Mr Larry Brilliant (great name by the way) said:
“We can’t win the battle to preserve the Earth’s atmosphere unless the oil and coal stay in the ground. We need to find a way to make renewable energy at such a low cost that it becomes the choice of everyone.”
When the polar cities team wrote to a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, he wrote back by email:
"No, I haven't thought about polar cities. Never heard about the idea until now. I don't like what faces us, it
will cause major upheavals. But somehow I feel we will overcome and survive."
[Nice. A Nobel laureate knows about us now. Word is spreading.]
A poster on the History Channel website says this, although he does not mention polar cities per se:
["Here's my take. We are still a VERY YOUNG SPECIES!!!
We have been around (supposedly) for only two million years. Two million years is a blink of the eye geologically speaking.
We have been around less than 1% of the total geological epoch. WE ARE BRAND NEW!!!
We are among the YOUNGEST species on planet Earth.
We have only had "civilization" for roughly 10,000 years.
Recently - we went through a developemental surge in our species history that was only about 300 years long - but that carried us from riding horseback to get to places - to flying in jets around the globe. We have advanced AMAZINGLY in a mere fraction of a geological moment.
We are pondering everything now from redesigning and repairing our genes - to traveling to distant stars.
It was once said that even if we do not advance significantly in our spacecraft designs - we could still have half the galaxy colonized within the same amount of time as the expanse of recorded human history thus far.
We have capabilities that NO OTHER LIFE FORM ON EARTH POSSESSES!!!
WHO KNOWS what we'll be able to do in the next 300 years!
If we will be able to redesign or resequence our genes - then extinction by virtue of gene pool depletion would be - by that reasoning - nullified. Judging by how far our species has come thus far - unless we destroy ourselves, or are taken out by a comet, asteroid, or such - there is no reason to think that we CANNOT continue as a species indefinitely.
Even if a comet does hit the Earth - how do YOU know we would perish? our brains are a LOT bigger than a dinosaurs. Given our positive capabilities - I don't think that you can even begin to consider our species's longevity within the same context as really any other life form.The same rules can no longer rigidly apply."]
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