Jeff C. -- Toledo, Ohio

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:

http://www.g4tv.com/

POLAR CITY IMAGES: (prelimary models)

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/

BACKGROUND INFO:

http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com/

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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.]

Joey S. -- Longmont, Colorado USA

Joey S., 38, married to Oksana S., with 1 child, Timmy S., 4 years old, is an online volunteer resident of Model Polar City One, to be built in Longyearbyen, Norway in 2015. Joey who holds down a day job in Colorado, and has expressed interest in serving as a volunteer resident of Model Polar City No. 1, which is still in the planning stages and has a long way to go, of course, before completion and actual residency.

However, when Joey was told that current plans call for the creation a place online where people like him can be a part of this, he replied:

"That's the right course of action. Build an assembly point, rally the troops, get the ideas flowing."

[See preliminary images of polar cites here: http://pcillu101.blogspot.com]

Current work: "I'm a project manager and line manager at Canonical Ltd, the people who sponsor Ubuntu Linux."

How did you first hear about polar cities experiment?

"I read about it in the Gizmodo.com article by Matt Buchanan." (see link below)

http://gizmodo.com/344551/polar-cities-for-day-after-tomorrow-survivors-will-save-us-all-from-horrible-deaths

Why do you want to become a volunteer virtual resident online, until we get the first model city up and running , maybe in 2012 or 2015?

"I feel it's an interesting idea for two reasons:

1) due to global warming...

a) If it goes hot as predicted, it'll be a good place to live;

b) if it goes COLD (the mini-ice age theory) as predicted, it will be an interesting analog to Mars because Mars will have many of the same challenges. So, it's a win win situation either way.

2) The Mars connection .... We can learn from the existing studies done to house astronauts on a very cold Mars, improve that for our model polar city, and eventually if humans do colonize Mars, then future generations can use the experiences from our polar cities experiments."

When asked was his hopes and dreams for the future are, and for the future of humankind now and in the far distant future, say year 2121 or 2500 or so, Joey replied:

"I'm a space nut. :-) -- I want the human race to embrace space travel and start colonizing other worlds. This is a great way for us to dodge the bullet if an asteroid takes out the Earth. I would love for humankind, all of us, worldwide, to focus on those technologies because there will be beneficial results we can use here on Earth."

If you come aboard Model Polar City One, what skills and ideas will you bring with you, and what contributions to the community and to the future do you want to make?

"I have formal training in emergency services (fire, medical). In addition, I'm a volunteer on the local SWAT team for the sheriff here in Colorado. I'm very good with computers. I'm a project manager and very good at organizing things. I've run command and control centers and had short stints as a dispatcher. I've had some brief experience with the Mars Society's Arctic ResearchCenter. (I helped to build some of the equipment and did a tour as a Mission Control specialist). "

Any other ideas for Model Polar City One in Longyearbyen, Norway, when we get there?

"Yes, as for specifications (e.g., we probably will want to have two front doors with a space in between; an outer door of lexan or something (so that is it polar bear-proof), and an inner door, with an insulating air-sandwich in between. "

Welcome aboard, Joey!

"I'm glad to be here. This will be interesting!"

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LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT POLAR CITIES:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40663

BACKGROUNDER: (introduction to polar cities concept)

http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com