Well, we already KNOW engineers are messed up…
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I don’t think he went far enough. Should have lured the guy out onto the ice with a bottle of vodka and walled him into an igloo. Then read The cask of Amontillado to him. Except the ending. Wouldn’t want to spoil it.
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So it’s even less important to repeatedly specify that he’s a scientist because it goes without saying that everyone there is a scientist.
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A: “All work and no play makes Jack…”
B: “NO SPOILERS!”
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Eh, only attempted murder, didn’t actually ice him.
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Both those guys - you could read them like a book. Entirely predictable.
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And people who repeatedly spoil the ending of books/movies/TV series.
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The news editor in me jumps up and down in ecstasy at the minimalist, “just the facts man/ma’am” reporting in this post.
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It’s easy to imagine going crazy when you are basically trapped by snow and cold weather. Fun fact: the indigenous people of Canada’s north have 9 different words for guy-who-should-shut-up-if-he-doesn’t-want-to-get-stabbed.
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Since staying in Antarctica as a private citizen is probably out of reach, I wonder what it would be like to live here:
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As far as I know that’s not the case - there are people there who do only practical work with no scientific component.
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Them’s fighting words.
Now if only I had a knife…
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A real engineer would use an adjustable spanner.
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Seriously boingboing? 54 comments on this post and I’m only the second to point out the stereotyping?
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We were all silently condemning him. 
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There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of a gold rush prospector snowed in with a cabin mate that whistled the same tune monotonously, and killed him. At a trial by a jury of his peers, he was acqitted with a ruling of justifiable homicide.
I have a workmate that whistles irritatingly off key and loud; it’s a good thing I’m only around him 40 hours a week.
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