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On a cold and rainy day in Cape Town, it might warm your bones a bit to know that there are far worse places to work, like Antarctica’s sub-zero madness.

A viral video is doing the rounds that show one of Antarctica’s ‘workers’ trying to close a door as the icy winds buffet against their enclosure. Closing the door seems like an easy enough sortie, but not on the frigid South Pole.

The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica was -89,6°C at Vostok station in 1983. The average winter temperature at the South Pole is about -49°C. Your home freezer is only about -15°C.

Antarctica has about 4 000 residents during the summer months and only 1 000 during the cold winters. Almost all of these people are part of research projects and include mostly biologists, glaciologists, geologists, oceanographers, atmospheric physicists, chemists, and meteorologists. Brainy people in other words.

But no matter how many PhDs or -ists you have after your name, the simple act of closing a door still comes with its challenges. Watching the below video, it’s easy to imagine that the person is trying to close a door on a moving train.

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Cape Town seems a little bit warmer now, doesn’t it? You’re welcome.

[source:thesouthafrican]