Posted on 02/08/07
A Russian or Canadian flag shouldn't matter
The Russians are coming. Yesterday, a Russian expedition, led by an atomic icebreaker, announced it had arrived at the North Pole and planned to descend to the seabed this morning in two $20-million Mir-2 submarines. The small subs, each the size of cube van and carrying three people, will drop down about 4,000 metres to the top of the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain range, and leave a titanium capsule carrying a Russian flag. "For the first time in history, people will go down to the sea bed under the North Pole," Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the expedition told Associated Press. "It's like putting a flag on the moon."
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