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.
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Are you hoping a veteran of Operation Highjump is lurking here, ready to spill the beans?
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
https://www.ats.aq/index_e.html
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.
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.
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
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
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.
It's got to be more feasible for countries to just invade Iceland or random African countries and just steal their shit.
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.
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.
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.
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