[Hiram]

Anyone can live on Svalbard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard

Effective since 1925, the Svalbard Treaty that defines Norway's sovereignty over the archipelago has some very interesting conditions. The most curious is that the islands are an entirely visa-free zone. This gives citizens of all treaty signatories the right to live there.

[solvegas]

Anyone can live on Svalbard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard

Effective since 1925, the Svalbard Treaty that defines Norway's sovereignty over the archipelago has some very interesting conditions. The most curious is that the islands are an entirely visa-free zone. This gives citizens of all treaty signatories the right to live there.

The question I have would be why anybody would want to live inside permanently a refrigerator?  Seriously, I hate the cold. Ever since I broke my right leg 1 1/2 inches above my right ankle about 9 years ago, in the Winter I get this bothersome throbbing pain which is not debilitating but a reminder from my leg to me of my fuck up. A place like that it would be absolutely miserable for me to live in. 

[solvegas]

US Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division doing exercises in Northern Norway near Russia with the Norwegian and other allies for extreme cold weather training firing a Javelin anti-armor man portable missile. 

[TheZookie007]

Anyone can live on Svalbard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard

Effective since 1925, the Svalbard Treaty that defines Norway's sovereignty over the archipelago has some very interesting conditions. The most curious is that the islands are an entirely visa-free zone. This gives citizens of all treaty signatories the right to live there.

The question I have would be why anybody would want to live inside permanently a refrigerator?  Seriously, I hate the cold. Ever since I broke my right leg 1 1/2 inches above my right ankle about 9 years ago, in the Winter I get this bothersome throbbing pain which is not debilitating but a reminder from my leg to me of my fuck up. A place like that it would be absolutely miserable for me to live in. 

Ouch

[rtpoe]

Posted for reference.

[Hiram]

Three female police officers on duty in London, 1921

[Hiram]

The question I have would be why anybody would want to live inside permanently a refrigerator?  :

Humans are the most adaptable species.  I think can people acclimatize to both cold or hot given time. 

Very little daylight in the in winter on Svalbard may be a deal breaker for me though.

[TheZookie007]

The question I have would be why anybody would want to live inside permanently a refrigerator?  :

Humans are the most adaptable species.  I think can people acclimatize to both cold or hot given time. 

Very little daylight in the in winter on Svalbard may be a deal breaker for me though.

I like my sunlight too. But I could deal with it for a year. Svalbard sounds fun. As long as it doesn't get that cold.

[solvegas]

The question I have would be why anybody would want to live inside permanently a refrigerator?  :

Humans are the most adaptable species.  I think can people acclimatize to both cold or hot given time. 

Very little daylight in the in winter on Svalbard may be a deal breaker for me though.

I like my sunlight too. But I could deal with it for a year. Svalbard sounds fun. As long as it doesn't get that cold.

According to its tourism page, there is no sunlight from late October till early March. Located at 78 degrees North, it isn't that far from the Geographical North Pole itself. It gets well below -40C during that time even though it is not absolutely dark thanks to the Northern lights. I was temporarily stationed in Adak, Alaska, which is in the Aleutians islands archipelago, in the Summer of 1986 and it snowed in the 4th of July. I always thought before then that was simply a joke but having been stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before I was given those orders, it sucked big time. Well, guess what, it snows year round in Svalbard. Not curious to go there. 

[solvegas]

A F-35C Lightning II lands at the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). In Navy terms, that is not called a landing but a trap since the aircraft has to be trapped by the arresting gear using its tailhook. Navy aircraft tend to be much sturdier than Air Force aircraft since landing on a carrier is really a slow motion crash because the runway is only 300 feet long and stopping a 20 ton supersonic aircraft in such a small space requires a lot of force. 

[rtpoe]

Who else wants one?

[TheZookie007]

Who else wants one?

I already have that as a T-shirt

[solvegas]

An F-35B from the US Marines of squadron VFMA -225 using its VTOL ( Vertical Take Off and Landing ) capability. 

[Hiram]

The actor that played Dewey Crowe in Justified was Australian.

[solvegas]

A B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota approaches Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada for the beginning of Red Flag exercises at the HUGE Nellis Air Force Air Combat Range. How big is the range? Almost twice the size of Rhode Island.