Talk:Eight Below

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Contents 1 Original Expedition 2 How cold is it? 3 puppies in antartica? 4 Daylight in Antarctica 5 Abandonning the Base - Mistakes Section 6 is that Right? 7 Statues of Taro & Jiro

[edit] Original Expedition

I found two different articles about the original expedition, one in the Japan Times (Google Cache), and a blog. Both state there were 13 dogs, not 12. I'm inclined to believe that the Japan Times article is accurate. The external link already referenced does not state the total number of dogs. Teridon 02:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

If you have a source cite it to the change you make in the article. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 02:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How cold is it?

I understand the previous reference states that Antarctica is -140 degrees Fahrenheit, but that obviously cannot be true. A quick look at other references on the 'net indicates temperatures of -40 Celsius in the summer to a low of -80 Celsius in the winter.[1]. Also see pages such as [2] which has great information on average temperatures in several locations throughout Antarctica. I've changed the article accordingly. --Stephane Charette 20:20, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

My bad -- I was converting incorrectly between Centigrade and Fahrenheit. The winter minimums of -90 Celsius (Antarctica#Climate) does translate to -130 degrees Fahrenheit. --Stephane Charette 20:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] puppies in antartica?

From http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=6082

"The 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty banned all introduced species, except man, from being taken into the Antarctic. It was with a great deal of sadness that in 1993 the last remaining huskies left Mawson and the Australian Antarctic Territory."

Now I am happy to be corrected on this, but the film appeared to be set in the current day. I "watched" the film on an international flight, without sound. My laziness, not the fault of the airline.

[edit] Daylight in Antarctica

As far as handled in the "Mistakes" section, there must not be all day daylight during the southern hemisphere summer and all day night during the southern hemisphere winter. This handling is only correct on South Pole, but not as far as I could see on the Mt. Melbourne ( ~70° South) mantioned in the Film. There there should be only a few days around June, 21. without any sunlight and there should be only a few days around December, 21. with almost around the sunlight. Please compare this to the northern hemisphere.

ReneRomann 18:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

My Discussion seemed to help a bit. The "Mistakes"-Section was corrected last few days.

ReneRomann 20:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abandonning the Base - Mistakes Section

Original from 146.87.65.10 - Changes from 5. Feb. 2007 12:44

• The reason given for abandoning the Antarctic base is that the weather was too severe. Yet when the film returns to follow the dogs' story the weather is mostly tranquil (and it is usually light, whereas the Antarctic winter is usually dark)
• The Antarctic base was only being abandoned for the winter, and the Commander says "no-one is going south until Spring". So, within the six month timeframe of the story it seems odd that regular journeys south had not resumed.

The reality in the movie is that the weather was serve at the leaving of the base. But the weather at the return is tranquil, as it was mentioned correctly.
This is not a mistake, because the day of return is 6 months after the leaving and so the weather should have been changed. For Day and Night time (light and darkness periods) look at #Daylight in Antarctica.
Therefore there must not be all day dark during the antarctic winter and not all day light during the antarctic summer. Especially getting north from the southpole, the period of all day darkness and all day light shortens to 1 day at the polar circle (63.5 ° South).
As also mentioned before, Mt. Melbourne is about 74° South and in so far there might be only a few days darkness and a few days of light. The period between is a normal day with a time of darkness and the rest light.
The second item mentioned, that it is surprising that the regular journeys had not been resumed cannot been proved because there is nothing shown of that.
Maybe the station shown in the film is a winter-only station without any summer-time crew... But this cannot be prooved trough the film.
ReneRomann 19:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] is that Right?

Should it really say that this movie was proceeded by Snow dogs? the two movies have little in common, aside from the fact that they both involve sledding. Stevo D 15:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

In fact is Eight Below (less) a continuation of Snow Dogs. But some of the Dogs used for Snow Dogs are still used for Eight Below, such as DJ, playing Demon in Snow Dogs and Max in Eight Below.
But there are no further relations between these 2 films expect the mushing and the relation to huskies. -- ReneRomann 18:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statues of Taro & Jiro

It would be great to include this photo but I'm noty at all adept at uplaoding photos and figuring out the copyright issue. If another editor could upload it, or a similar photo, that would be great:

Taro & Jiro

ThanksLisapollison 22:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

If this picture is taken by yourself, you can use it under license of GNU and you have no problems with the copyright issue. But if not, there will be still problems with adding the picture to Wikipedia. (In fact, please read the following article: Image Description page at Wikipedia -- ReneRomann 18:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)