Sir David Obembe OBE MBE thought of himself as one of the last great British explorers. the trouble is that nowadays almost a whole world has already been explored, consequently Sir David Obembe OBE MBE felt like the last great, frustrated, British explorer.
He would spend days, weeks, sometimes months, on end, meticulously planning expeditions into Africa, Asia, or South America. These expeditions, he knew, would never happen, simply because these places had already been explored. The only reasons for David Obembe OBE MBE , kept on planning these imaginary expeditions was simply to maintain his planning skills.
When he wasn’t planning Sir David Obembe OBE MBE would simply sit in his study twiddling his globes, out of frustration and boredom.
Then one day it hit him.
“ouch”, he exclaimed “what was that?”
but he did not have worried; it was only an idea that had hit him.
One of the good things about global warming… I realise you may feel there is nothing good about global warming and you may be right, but then you are not a great British Explorer frustrated or otherwise.
One of the good things about global warming in the mind of Sir David Obembe OBE MBE… By the way when I say OBE MBE, I’m not saying that he had been awarded these distinctions, I am simply spelling out his last name OBE MBE.
One of the good things about global warming is that the icecaps were melting, including those in Antarctica. This meant that much of the land in Antarctica which had been covered in snow and ice for millennia, was now being exposed for the very first time.
Nobody had ever had the opportunity to explore the actual land that had lain underneath the Antarctica ice.
At last Sir David Obembe OBE MBE had a place he could really explore.
Almost at once he started to plan the expedition first of all he rang around his fellow explorers to see if any of them were interested in joining him or if they wouldn’t be able to join, perhaps they could endorse or support the expedition in other ways.
So David or Bambi OBE MBE knew he would need sponsorship a lot of sponsorship if he could have a well-known name either joining him or supporting him it could help attract sponsors.
Not only would he these sponsorship. He’d also need an actual ship not just any ship of course but one designed to survive in the vicious seas of the southern ocean and large enough to carry all the heavy equipment and supplies needed for such an expedition.
When the expedition finally arrived at Antarctica they were initially very excited. They could see you that much of the ice sheet had indeed melted away. They could see land, actual land, land that are never been walked upon by humans.
Of the expedition team, the most excited was Sir David Obembe OBE MBE himself. He knew that he would be the first man ever to set foot on the actual land of this continent.
However, the initial excitement was short-lived. As the ship got nearer the land, the expedition could see that the land was very very flat. Evidently the layers of ice had eroded away any hill or mountain that may have existed. The ground also looked excessively wet. It would seem that not all the melted ice had flowed into the sea, much of it had seeped into the soil and turned it to mud.
The land looked like a vast, empty, plane. It was full of mud, puddles, and, in the distance, what looks like lakes.
Sir David Obembe OBE MBE, realised that exploring this land was not going to be as easy as he had hoped. Thankfully, they had wet weather gear but there was some doubt about how well the motorised vehicles could cope with the muddy terrain.
Nevertheless, they had come this far and they were determined not to turn back, at least not yet.
That first evening with the ship anchored in the bay, the team remained on board to discuss their options. Everyone could see how wet and swampy the land was. No one could be sure how deep the mud was or if it could take the weight of a man let alone one of the expedition vehicles.
The only decision made that evening was that, in the morning, one man was to set foot on the land and test out the terrain.
Of course that one man would be Sir David Obembe OBE MBE
So it was, the next morning Sir David Obembe OBE MBE and two others set off from the ship in a small dinghy. They headed for a small inlet on the coast.
When they reached the shore Sir David Obembe OBE MBE gingerly stepped out of the dingy and onto the shore. There was a sigh of relief as he should steady on the ground with barely 2 centimetres of mud around the base of his boots. There was even greater relief when he took his first step without sinking any deeper.
That first day have been deemed a success and it was decided the next day the full team of seven men with full gear would set onto the land. They were still uncertain, of course, whether the mud would be deeper and more treacherous as they progressed. So it was decided that they would all be armed with wooden poles and use them to gauge the depth and firmness of the soil ahead of them.
For seven days the expedition searched the land without discovering much of interest. It was on the eighth day that they made their important discovery. It wasn’t at first evident inthe mud and the moss but a circular pattern became clearly marked out by a ridge. In fact, it appeared to be an almost perfect circle. at the very centre of this circle there appeared to be a small mount.
It certainly wasn’t clear what this structure was. It was unlikely to be man-made owing to the millennia during which the area had been covered in ice. The expedition speculated that it might be the site of a meteorite impact and that central mound might just be the remains of that meteorite itself.
With an air of renewed excitement, the whole team decided to remove the moss and mud from the circle. Their plan was to reveal more of whatever it was that lay underneath and, hopefully, to understand it better. Their hopes were high that the central mud mound would turn out to be a meteorite, or something like that. A meteorite that size, would be almost unique.
As they cleared the way the mud and moss, they revealed an almost metallic structure. If it were metal, though, it was a metal they could not identify. This reinforced the idea of a meteor impact.
The team spent their time initially on clearing away the surface of the circle, moving slowly towards the mound at the centre. When they reached that mount, however, they discovered something new. The mound wasn’t just a mound; there was something attached to it.
That ‘something’ was a chain. When this chain became evident, the team scratched their heads. What was this contraption? An almost perfect circle with a mound in the middle and a chain attached to that mound? The only thing they could relate or compare it to was a bath plug?
Now, I ask you, what would you do if you came upon a bath plug in a strange place?
Well, no doubt you’d try to pull it out.
That is exactly what the expedition decided to do. They took hold of the chain heaved it over their shoulders and pulled and pulled and pulled until, at last, the plug came loose and then free.
And that’s how the world ends. 
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