Their family roots lie in a land that requires no borders, passports or anthems. Out in the sharp night beneath the pinwheel of stars some wax nostalgic for this place they have not yet left. Yea that s right, that s good. Very peaceful Antarctica is a very special continent. No any problems.
Many astronauts say the same.
From the dizzying altitude of a spacecraft or the dark isolation of a polar winter many of the world s differences, as if viewed from the wrong end of the binoculars, must seem decidedly trivial. Igor Chobotok, a geophysicist, also is planning to return someday. But tonight he sounds less the polar hero than plain, ordinary guy ready to go home after a year on the ice. I like my sofa best.