Canada to troll the "North Pole Ownership" party.Now this article might not seem like a WTF article at first, but a second glance reveals the real reason I posted this:
A specially equipped DC-3 will begin flying from airstrips on Ellesmere Island and Greenland all the way up to the top of the world this weekend to start mapping the undersea ridges that will determine which Arctic nation controls that part of the sea bed.
I didn't just read what I think I just read, did I?
A specially equipped DC-3
Wait, what?
A DC-3
Are you fucking kidding me?! I don't mean to slag on one of the greatest aircraft of all time, but even though it's all so much symbolic bullshit, I'd like to think that a high-priority government mission regarding the territorial sovereignty of one of the planet's only two poles could do better than sending out a single aircraft that's probbaly been stolen from
Admiral Byrd.