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"Nothing human could have made it back here without a guideline"

posted 7 years ago by dwdd (3)
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This line always bothered me. Mac's shack was so close the main building, it really shouldn't be hard to get back, even during a snowstorm.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Believe it or not but in a snow storm on the North pole you can get lost within literally 10 feet. I imagine it is not much different on Antarctica.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 6 years ago

They were just trying to justify the decision they'd already made, that they were going to fry Mac to avoid even the risk that he'd been thinged

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Yeah. They didn't count on MacReady being as tough as he was.

[–] Martoto (5049) 5 years ago

It was Mac's shack after all. If anybody was going to navigate the path to the main compound on sense memory alone, it would be him.

[–] Martoto (5049) 5 years ago

Spot on.