Why?
 

Why would you want to sail to the pole? Has someone told you there are Ubi polar bears and seals to see?

Now, I could understand wanting to sail to the South pole. After all, Ubi scientists have established facilities there and send their best programmers there. You know the ones I mean, those with good ideas. A few months down there and they are willing to do whatever silly things management want.

Oh god, flashbacks from searching Ace Combat 5 for hours on end for them damn polar bears...Never again man, NEVER....AGAIN!

Washed down with 20 cans of Newcastle Brown Ale. :D

Naturally


http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2884/drunkcob.gif

Someone posted a screenie of the Northern wall. A brick wall :haha:

I guess it proves the world is flat.

The picture is of Jim on a good day. AKA one that he made it through alive.

So I've just tried to sail to the North Pole. Oh how I wish I hadn't.

1945, "Aprils' Fool" mission, Type XXI.

Sailing at flank + 1024X time acceleration around Norway, then straight up north into AF8126, and suddenly...

A black hole appears under the u-boot, and we are falling free into it. Instant death. From there on, the previous (normal) mission save was somehow corrupted, as reloading into it also caused the Black Hole to appear. What was different is that this time we did not die. Going instantly into external view and pausing the game, I could see the u-boot plunging into a black Abyss helplessly... at 138 knots. Seeing a Type-XXI actually tumbling, then falling headlong into a blackness that is not water (diesel engines running), was one of the eeriest gaming moments I've had.

Anyway, the falling stopped at 506 meters, despite "tiefe unter keel" reporting 986 meters left. The u-boat was not destroyed of the pressure, because there was no water to produce it. We were in outer space.

You
Don't
Go
To
The
North
Pole.

You just don't.

http://gabucino.be/picz/sh3/xxiplunge.jpg

(yes that little thing down there is the u-boot. This is the beginning of the fall, zoomed away so I could include the moon)

Cans?? Are they pint cans? All we get here in the US is the bottled Newcastle. :wah:

This is what happens when your navigator divides by zero. :D

:haha: Set new heading for the abyss, I have to experience this one myself

Heh, reminds me of the old Red Baron DOS game. If you flew outside the map it was just white nothingness around you. Kind of disturbing. :)

I have almost done this trip..
 

but I never see a "black hole",I started from pyton ,near close to South-Africa 1941,and round cape horn and go west on South America and see lots of "nothing"! so I go to Panama canal in DA, but this was guard with turrets and small armed mtb,/they look really angry)so after this,I go further into Alaska and just below the pole....but no brick ,no strange aliens so after this I have only nearly zero in fuel, so my crew have low morale and was not so happy after a long and relaxing trip with all kind of weather,but sometimes must you do a break and this was 4 months holiday!

:lurk: