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SOLD: Choose Your Own Adventure - Through the Black Hole - Vintage Book

Oct
02
2011

SOLD: Choose Your Own Adventure - Through the Black Hole - Vintage Book

F--- yeah. These books are amazing. Like a book version of a video game, but more riveting and imagination sparking. I remember my childhood adventures through these books well.

"You have been chosen for a mission that has never been attempted before -- a journey to the center of a black hole. Scientists can only guess what will happen. You've been warned that you may not return alive. The spaceship Athena will actually enter the hole; its sister ship, the Nimrod, will only go to the edge and observe. Which ship will you choose to pilot?"

Decisions decisions; ATHENA, OBVIOUSLY. I want to enter the hole.

This book is in used condition, and is 116 pages long. Copyright and printed in 1990.

http://www.etsy.com/transaction/49378383

Posted By obscurities

Shackleton's whiskey supply found frozen in Antarctic ice, and we may be able to taste the results!

Aug
14
2010

I hope Antarctican visitors to Texarrakis secretly sampled this whiskey.

In the last week, someone from Antarctica paid Texarrakis a visit, and browsed through nearly 20 pages. I don't know why someone from Antarctica would spend what I assume would be their precious internet time on this page, of all places. Maybe researchers and scientists and whoever exists in Antarctica spend a similar amount of time on the internet. I do not know.

Recently though, I came across news that a 12 pack of century old whiskey was found wonderfully preserved underneath Shackelton's old Antarctic shack. In the case were 11 bottles, one half empty. It is now my hope that the very same Antarctic visitor to Texarrakis got a chance to sample this whiskey. If this is the case, and you are our Antarctican friend, please let me know.

It's extremely unlikely though, the crate was discovered in 2006. The only reason it is making a news splash now, is that it has been thawed out in the Canterbury Museum in ChurchChrist, New Zealand. Apparently the museum is shipping samples to the same distillery which succeeded the company that distilled this whiskey is receiving samples of it, in order to reverse engineer the old whiskey back into life. The museum has started a blog called "The Great Whisky Crate Thaw", full of exciting pictures and updates. It is oddly tantalizing. They haven't opened a bottle yet; they are hoping to remove the straw covering within the next few days!

I await this product's arrival!

Posted By gene
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