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If I ask this anywhere else I get too many crazy responses. Isn't crazy how we all just constantly forget that a continent exists?
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21 comments:
Theunpopular1 on scored.co
1 month ago 8 points (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror )
What kind of info are you looking for, specifically? I don't think I ever forgot about Antarctica, but I rarely think about it because it's apparently a giant block of fucking ice.
allAheadFull on scored.co
1 month ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 2 children
If you are a pole-shift believer then it won't always be frozen. It's hard to get anything but rumor and speculation about it, but there are a lot of military bases there, and they shoot to kill. Must be something very valuable there.
Captain_Raamsley on scored.co
1 month ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Unobtanium
ScallionPancake on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
> there are a lot of military bases there, and they shoot to kill.

How do you know this? Any instances or examples
GoneViking on scored.co
1 month ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
Are you hoping a veteran of Operation Highjump is lurking here, ready to spill the beans?
NoRefunds2 on scored.co
1 month ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 1 child
The beans are already spilled all over the internet and Wikipedia. The Antarctic treaty is all the confirmation you need, to know there's a lot of shit down there that Admiral Byrd confirmed.

https://www.ats.aq/index_e.html
Thenoticingcontinues on scored.co
1 month ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Ya. There's going to be so much global conflict, whether contrived or not but we're *all* going to agree on Antarctica.
CaptainTrouble on scored.co
1 month ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
If Antarctica is so cold and just a block of ice with $1m/year per person costs to live there, why does the government need to place any restrictions on what people can and cannot do there? Shouldn't the nature of what it is be restrictive enough without any government regulations?
ImBillCurtis on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Great question. Why do governments intervene and threaten to shoot down aircraft or sea vessels that deviate from routes near the area.
fourleaved on scored.co
1 month ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
It is strange that a wellspring of natural resources has a universal consensus to not be exploited for personal gain.

The mining ban is set to be reviewed in 2048, that will give us a better picture of what the global stage thinks of Antarctica.
devotech2 on scored.co
1 month ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror )
The natural resource of antarctica might as well be ice because it's a giant fucking block of ice. For a majority of the resources on the continent you'd have to drill a comparable depth to the deepest mine on earth, and in some parts even deeper than that, to even touch the ground. There are a few oases that are sparse and small enough that they probably don't have anything worth diverting the resources towards.

The antarctic treaty was signed in the middle of the cold war because if either the US or the USSR put enough funding and technology into building a long term military base there (which actually is more viable than drilling there), it would fuck everything over because of antarcticas position. Namely the ussr, which was emerging as the dominant (military) power at the time. If the ussr occupied antarctica, they would shut down all aircraft carrier travel to and from the pacific and Atlantic. American Carriers are too large to fit through the panama canal, they have to go through the straits of Magellan. America didn't want that and the USSR agreed to a deal. There's also the potential for either side to shut down a sizeable portion of trade from any ships too big to go through the Panama canal. Again, namely the ussr.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
Xachariah on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
It's just too expensive. It costs something like $500k-$1m a year per person just to survive down there. Plus extracting any resources means paying huge shipping costs and dealing with cold.

It's got to be more feasible for countries to just invade Iceland or random African countries and just steal their shit.
myke on scored.co
1 month ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Evidence of history that doesn't match up with our officially dictated history.

Or maybe I'm just hopeful and its a big ol block of ice.

Who knows.
PurestEvil on scored.co
1 month ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
It's a barren wasteland, that is so cold that you cannot do agriculture and continually need to consume energy for heat. People cannot live there for longer periods of time, unless they continually get supplies from outside.

There is really nothing to see, because whatever civilization existed in the past, they were less capable to go there and do activities than we are today. Meaning no ancient pyramids.

Just recently it was 0°C outside and there were strong winds (~20km/h). Even that was bad enough that I had to cut short walking my dog. Now imagine a storm at -50°C. Not only will you be able to see barely anything, not only will it feel like -50°C, it will feel colder due to the winds even. These are conditions that you'd have on Mars, minus the air issue.

There seem to be places at the continental coasts though, where temperatures seem to be close to livable.
ImBillCurtis on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Joe Rogan had this guest on like 13-14 years ago claiming he trekked across the entire continent. Made a bunch of crazy claims. Zero footage. Zero photos. Just bullshit.
ye_old_timey_tunes on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
They said not to disturb the sleeping ones there. Will you listen?
ImBillCurtis on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
What’s scarier to comtemplate is whether or not it actually exists. We’re told it’s the size of the U.S. yet the only footage we’re allowed to see is from islands off the coast somewhere.

We’re supposed to believe that every nation on earth unilaterally agreed that no one should visit it out of “preservation”. Fuck off.
Webspawner3 on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Yeah all of the countries agreeing on one thing for once scares me too lol.
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bluewhiteandred on scored.co
1 month ago -1 points (+0 / -0 / -1Score on mirror )
"the earth is flat and they're hiding resources down there"
deleted 1 month ago -2 points (+0 / -0 / -2Score on mirror ) 1 child
Webspawner3 on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Do you believe Mars is flat?
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