What Shipwrecks Can Teach Us About Hot Cars, Fast Ice, and Human Progress

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Brandon's on vacation ... a cruise, actually! Which some people might consider work, but after a few dozen piña of coladas, he's feeling philosophical...

... And that's right when Stephen tracks him down to talk about, what else?, shipwrecks, because they're topical and because Stephen isn't reading the room. Still, it was interesting to talk about the Felicity Ace, that Portuguese ship carrying luxury cars that caught fire and had to be abandoned. Particularly, the viral rumor that all those Porsches and Bentleys were now up for grabs because something something law of the sea, which is not at all true.

(That's what you get for spreading maritime lore from a Twitter feed specializing in old station wagons and Chuck Norris thirst pics.)

The bigger — and more profound — shipwreck news is that explorers found Sir Ernest Shackleton's long-lost ship, the Endurance, which was right where he'd left it, at the bottom of the sea in Antarctica. Thus ends a chapter of human exploration with one more sea story...

Speaking of sea stories, Brandon can't get back to his important frozen cocktail work without regaling Stephen about his own Antarctic adventures, and some chit-chat about the Antarctic Treaty and whether we can learn anything from it so as to better share this planet with our fellow humans.

Pull up a drink and mix yourself a chair, we're ahoying!