The Race to Build in Antarctica

[@TheB1M]

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[@brendansully12]

Boooooooooooo!

[@askip9304]

You guys loooove promoting scams, which sucks because you guys have a great channel.

[@MrNimblemouse]

I wouldn't want a spend a cent on those ugly artworks purely out of principal. People don't know what real art is anymore.

[@brianrutherfield9233]

Stop promoting scams 🤦‍♂️

[@jimhearsonwriter]

You'd think the people building things there would be called antarchitects.

[@TheB1M]

Nice 😂

[@Mr_JollyRoger]

Not to be confused with the anti-architects, who are very different people.

[@jasperdoornbos8989]

Love it!

[@Joostuh]

Build by the Dutch 👌

[@chelstoncontent]

Trying to say that… I can see why not😂

[@mauricio-wq5lu]

Antarctica is supposed to be a world park as per UN agreement, but as always, the strong take what they want.

[@lm_b5080]

i was just thinking this...please lets just leave one place on earth sacred

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

@@lm_b5080 No

[@viaxxl]

@@JeffreyBue_imtxsmokePlease?

[@heavenlynature7113]

You are right soo sad.

[@seanhewitt603]

" scientific research", as the Japanese define it, whaling done on an industrial scale, but for "scientific" porposes...oops purposes is perfectly legit and legal...😶

[@J3scribe]

An oil spill there would simply be catastrophic and heartbreaking.

[@badbad-cat]

US is literally nuking there 💔

[@animateddepression]

It would just circle the continent.

[@lorenk.775]

The place is huge and petroleum/oil it's a natural substance.

[@plexoduss]

@@lorenk.775 That's why nobody cared about the Exxon Valdez. It's just natural.

[@Neutralino]

@@lorenk.775What an asinine comment.

[@RH1812]

Just what we need. Industrialisation of Antarctica. Well done us

[@CrowArchLane]

It's not B1M's fault, but yeah this channel is getting kinda depressing if you look at most of these projects through an environmental lense

[@justrandom4304]

us = white people

[@AL-lh2ht]

literal for scientific progress. "Industrialisation" has not happened

[@nousername8162]

@@AL-lh2ht oil

[@jimidando]

Thinking we humans would not conquer the whole planet and eventually space, is kind of naive. History thought us differently. Clearly a lot of people need it and maybe it's not dumb to create livable spaces everywhere for when other places become uninhabitable.

[@kachowbltch3585]

Not many know that Antarctica is also where we learn about the moon and mars because meteors from those bodies land in the Antarctic ice and remain pristine more or less. I have a professor who goes on multi week asteroid hunting expeditions. So cool

[@Roaming8667]

Not the mention the UAPs!

[@Julia-uh4li]

Well, I did not know that! 🤔 Very, cool info. Thank you for sharing it.

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

They wouldn't be able to land there if it weren't for that hole in the "oh... zone"..eh..@Roaming..😂

[@segment932]

When is the first IKEA opening?

[@donpayton737]

As soon as they're done building the Costco

[@kainpwnsu]

Walmart comes right along with it. Ever notice there is always and adjacent Walmart as well?

[@QuixEnd]

elites dont use ikea

[@donpayton737]

@@kainpwnsu it did cross my mind and I was going to say Walmart. But then I remembered there are no Walmarts in Hawaii

[@alexisdespland4939]

@@donpayton737 walmart and mcdonalds first probably.

[@puffinjuice]

Yay, lets ruin the last untouched environment on earth 🇦🇶🔥

[@orishaeshu1084]

Humans came from Earth

[@asnailking9980]

Would you rather we destroy our forests? Basically nothing lives in that ice desert

[@viaxxl]

@@asnailking9980cause we killed them all 😂

[@Julia-uh4li]

What difference would it make, seriously?

[@turbofanlover]

Drill baby, drill!!!

[@marklewis2428]

Thank you so much for making this video! I'm proud to say I was one of the Structural Engineers working on the Discovery Building (and wider district service system) in my previous job at Sweco. It really was the most fulfilling and interesting project i've been involved in in my career!

[@Gringohuevon]

who cares? You're contaminating an unspoilt wilderness..f**k your career

[@markmeachen6927]

Hoping renewables make drilling seem a lot less desirable. The price of renewables continues to drop. 2048 looks like a late enough date to stop all this oil stuff.

[@Zman-000]

Renewables can never replace fossil and nuclear for sheer energy output.

[@thenotanclan]

Forget it - lithium is only available in tiny quantities and will likely have run out by 2048 - no lithium = no electric cars etc - then what? Oh yeah, oil

[@MagnificentlyHighAlien]

Why stop the oil when there's more oil to get?

[@wrc5557]

@@thenotanclan oil is also finite resource like lithium - in larger quantities yes, but its gona run out - and Antarctica aint exactly accessible when it comes to the simple economics of extracting it. There are also lots of other technologies out there that don't depend on oil to power transport and support electricity production and simple economies of scale and energy security will push more countries towards renewables - why squabble over oil when you dont need it. At this point oil is antiquated tech when it comes to power generation or vehicle propulsion - ev, hydrogen and synthetic fuels are already out there - Yes Oil will continue to be needed as its used for many other things, but it wont be needed in the quantities the Russians claim to have found any time soon. Theres a reason the saudis are scrambling to build an economy less dependent on oil and thats not because they think its the future!

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@thenotanclan The largest deposit of lithium ever found in history was recently discovered in the US.

[@Perriax]

Norway? What are you doing mate, you're on the wrong pole!

[@spiff1]

they already got oil

[@deadbirdwalking1159]

Initially Norwegian claims in Antarctica stems from the early 1900's as a way to secure a guarantee regarding whale fishing. As to why it's still a supposed claim now comes down to the the Antarctic Treaty being upheld. Currently the "reason" is research related. It's going to get really contentious down there in the not too distant future and there will be wars fought over it. If the amount of oil there is correct, that alone will suffice in it's justification. The resources that continent holds beyond the oil reserves is presumably absolutely bonkers on account of it's size and once it's melted enough there's going to be heavy exploration and exploitation of said resource.

[@MarcusHelius]

They were the first people to reach the South Pole.

[@More_Row]

You ever heard of the Antartic race mate.

[@hzlh2254]

the UK too. gtfo from antartica

[@MrTruehoustonian]

Imagine the oil spills in the Antarctica wow all that prestige land and water ruined😢

[@jonnies]

IF such a thing happened, it would be better off happening there in such a barren and isolated place than, say, where the BP spill happened.

[@MrTruehoustonian]

@@jonnies No it wouldn't and I can say that I live in Texas and lived through the BP spill in an Antarctica would be 20 times worse

[@JasperKlijndijk]

​@@MrTruehoustonianno. Maybe only true uninhabited desert would be the only other less worse ace than Antarctica. All over the world would be damaging yet these places would be the least so. Compared to human centers, forests or rivers

[@jonnies]

@@MrTruehoustonian 20 times worse in what sense? I effectively gave you a hypothetical scenario where the same spill of the same magnitude happens - one in antarctica and one in the gulf of mexico. How can it be 20 times worse?

[@MrTruehoustonian]

@@jonnies the fact you don't know how it would be worse answer my question

[@gamerjay6624]

Interesting video, I met a British army surveyor back in the late 80s in Nepal, we got to talking about the Falklands war and he said it had more to do with Argentina occupying the Falklands as an economic strategy as its the UKs only nearby staging area for any exploitation of Antarctic resources.

[@jonbeecroft1102]

I cannot be the only person to see the insane irony of drilling for oil in Antarctica! This is pure undiluted total screaming madness!

[@MarinCipollina]

The California beaches of Santa Monica were littered with oil derricks 120 years ago.

[@dontlookatmep2895]

We are speedrunning extinction

[@spiff1]

by getting more oil? What lol

[@orishaeshu1084]

@@spiff1by getting more oil to transition to better technology. Yeah dude makes no sense

[@c0ltz450]

​@@orishaeshu1084i mean, before we even run out of the oil reserves we found now. Climate change will have destroyed almost everything. We already have enough oil reserves to end the world. We don't need more.

[@matthieumenard8149]

​@@orishaeshu1084 Don't worry. Dudes like this have been getting high on doom talk for hundreds of years...

[@orishaeshu1084]

@@matthieumenard8149 you knew it all along if you were right once after being wrong 1 million times. #trust 😂

[@marsgal42]

All bets are off as soon as somebody finds commercially viable resources.

[@culture-jamming-rhizome]

Enter Shikari's song "Arguing with thermometers" is not supposed to be an instruction manual.

[@HelloHi-g2u]

Super cool topic, as the story develops and more things are built here I hope you cover it!

[@sayertherebel]

Really feels like nobody should be building anything here. Leave it TF alone.

[@philipbrazill2155]

That's how I feel.

[@nousername8162]

sadly morals dont control actions at this scale. any big country will literally explode a toddler if it meant trillions of dollars of resources. i hope climate change is big enough of an incentive to make a rare exception for this

[@turbofanlover]

Drill baby, drill!!!

[@tylersmith9868]

What a loser viewpoint

[@darthmaul216]

@@turbofanloverbot

[@captainamerica3814]

My dad helped build some of the buildings at McMurdo. 😊👍🏽

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

Sooner or later china is going to also say that china is also a "near Antarctic state" too 😂

[@DailyLifeSolution]

Or China will say they have a map with maekings made by Mao. Thus, it has ancient claim on Antartica.

[@2eezyy]

They’ve already have.

[@spiff1]

Like the UK

[@m-erko]

The Chinese outnumber Australians in the Australian sector by a considerable margin. The Australians aren't armed though.

[@slumericanfeller7441]

Either that or China will admit that the earth is flat and show Antarctica as the high ice walled continental shelf container of the oceans-the edge-and they’ll say “see….china has borders/shores that have direct line of sight, straight shot to the ice wall. This is why China have claim to Antarctica.” Look at a “Gleason Map”

[@emanthegman9511]

Oohh the flat earthers won't like that 😂

[@chriskeentechnician]

I can hear their tiny little brains exploding as we speak 🧠 💥 😂

[@magical_catgirl]

@@chriskeentechnician They don't have anything left to explode. What little they had to start with started melting when The Final Experiment was reviled.

[@_SurferGeek_]

Flerfers be like... how they gonna get over the ice wall? 🤔

[@FUJIIDEW]

Hopefully in 2048 they see the importance of protecting this majestic continent. Though I feel in the future, Antarctica will become a foundation for war, especially as we grow as a species and resources become more scarce.

[@bill9540]

I would love to see a design piece on the roofing system of the new building. Particularly, how the snowfall is directed off the building and towards the “dock” areas where they would seem to fall victim to the same slides and accumulations that are shown at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="804">13:24</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="807">13:27</a>. The seasonal snowfall is measured in Meters☺️

[@marklewis2428]

Hi there, I was lucky enough to work on the Discovery Building! If you look at 6:28, you'll see what look like vents on the upper corner of the roof- this structure is a 'wind deflector', which we designed to funnel the prevailing wind down the face of the Leeward side of the building, reducing snow buildup which will usually build up on this side (away from the wind).

[@bill9540]

@@marklewis2428 Many thanks for that, I was in roofing & sheet metal for 30 years and the system design work was often fascinating.

[@pinkskud1]

@@bill9540 worth noting that the animation has the wind direction backwards. the wind comes from the lower side, up the roof then is fired down by the wind deflector. if they ever get round to fitting it...

[@jameswilson5165]

Excellent photography and video. Well done.

[@TheJttv]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="694">11:34</a> mcmurdo is being revamped into large buildings and will be eventually removing a lot of those smaller buildings.

[@Rebelbricky]

Ah yes the south pole...right on the UKs shores 😂

[@cParman9]

When has that ever stopped the British from colonizing a foreign land?

[@c0ltz450]

​@@cParman9 the British tend to see the entire world as their land lmao

[@elmurcis1]

@@c0ltz450 As long as one can find bird poop there ofcourse!

[@harbl99]

@@c0ltz450 No, no. ... Only the bits that touch the water.

[@felipaorfr]

I remember reading about a volcano that erupted in the Mediterranean near Italy forming a new island. The countries around it laid claims, and then the British laid claim because of course they did.

[@krashd]

Seeing as you mentioned that the antarctic doesn't have any hardware shops incase parts are needed I imagine there must be some fabrication tech used down there, like metal 3D printers to produce things such as brackets and tools. With the exception of the ISS Antarctica is the one place where the ability to manufacture what you need on location would be incredibly useful.

[@george_davituri]

Stunning place, it should be interesting to spend some time living there to escape from a big city life

[@Mike-1000]

*Aliens Talking To Each Other : "SMH ... they just can't leave anything alone can they"*

[@21jlxi]

I flew down to McMurdo in Jan, and its true that you get off the plane and are in awe of the place, simply amazing, and blindingly white!

[@MarinCipollina]

Better bring your Ray Ban Predators

[@Mr.Nabil.Belhaj]

All that studying penguins and polar bears was actually scientists looking for oil

[@cParman9]

Did someone say Oil? LOL

[@JDthatepicOne]

Liberty time

[@philipbrazill2155]

Not oil, but greed

[@turbofanlover]

Drill baby, drill!!!

[@darthmaul216]

@@turbofanloverbot

[@tdyerwestfield]

So much for that Antarctic Treaty. We should be leaving Antarctica alone.

[@redfields5070]

We should exploit it for all it's worth.

[@jonathanrichter4256]

In one part of the video you say the water surrounding Antarctica is called the Southern Ocean and it circulates around the continent. But in the part with the pie chart showing which countries claim which parts of the continent, it says South Atlantic, South Pacific and Indian oceans.

[@EmilyBieman]

This one was extraordinary. Thank you

[@alistairmcdonald2382]

Thank you for accurately describing how dangerous the Southern Ocean can be, in just a couple of sentences 😱😂

[@maxwarboy3625]

It's always interesting looking at the map of claims in Antarctica; how all the countries agreed to the "pie" shapes? all the way 'down' to the pole... like, no country simply said "We claim this small bit of coast" anyone?

[@Kris_96]

What a way to begin a story :D

[@GazMoby]

Very enjoyable as always 👍

[@shuss-pi3me]

A video on the Hudson Yards Phase 2 project would bang. Hot topic in NYC at the moment (casino license).

[@johnshort5830]

Lmao I don't know why the penguins were reggae, but I'm here for it

[@CreastNess]

I truly hope that in 2048 the committee that is up for the re-signing of the treaty are sensible people and not just greedy corporations.

[@FedericoGalimbertiApparel]

Superb video. Unusual in the construction but amazing from an environmental aspect

[@porkpie2884]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="13">0:13</a> and only 7 seconds later.... "in the world"

[@20121961]

I would love to go there! I wish I had an appropriate job, to allow me to spend time there.

[@redfields5070]

It's very cold and very white and death is constantly looming. That's about it.

[@gardenlifelove9815]

YES, Build on shifting ice, in hot and warming weather, in a place that relies solely on cold weather to exist.... great idea

[@maxplanck9055]

No weapons and no mining makes Antarctica safe from the usual stupidity from governments, only scientists sharing knowledge and discoveries with sustainability ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@axle.student]

That won't last much longer :(

[@MrFredericandre]

Don't tell Putin there are people in Antartica who speak Russian that need to be "protected".

[@freetolook3727]

OIL!!! THERE'S OIL IN THEM GLACIERS!!! You can hear the drums beating now! 😂😂😂

[@ethanhaw667]

Just a heads up it was built on teesside more specifically middlesbrough/Redcar which houses teesport

[@mmsmits2868]

Amazon will be opening a distribution center there next year...

[@jessejamez5985]

Drilling for an un-necessary resource that, if utilized, will contribute to an unlivable world for our kids and grand kids has got to be the stupidest thing ever. The already unimaginably rich making themselves richer at YOUR expense. Report it like it is guy. Lol, those billionaires will reinvest in the economy JUST LIKE TRICKLE DOWN! Enjoy the channel, hate the money pandering.

[@ok0_0]

Oil is necessary for millions of things you take for granted daily. I mean, shit, half of the plastic doohickeys you use on the daily are probably a by-product of the petroleum refinement process.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Unnecessary? Do you use plastic? Do you use anything that depends on lubrication to function? How about glue, that's mostly oil based these days. Even if you are in a cabin in the wilderness running off a wind turbine, well that turbine will have oil based lubricants, the cables transmitting the power and your internet will be coated in oil derived plastics... Please learn how the world works.

[@Chriss120]

Petition to make Antarctica a self governing nation. No exploit from any external nation.

[@saidouassou9030]

with an empror Penguine as its ruler..

[@freedomfighter22222]

So who gets to be the people that settle there?

[@Chriss120]

@@freedomfighter22222 When a nation forms, the nation can control who immigrates..

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Petition to ban ridiculous petitions.

[@wuhanclan]

That's obviously not going to last very long.

[@tal0ndarktalon637]

America… “Sounds like Antarctica needs some freedom…..”

[@michaeldowson6988]

The rush to Antarctica will take the heat off of the Northwest Passage. Besides that, penguins won't savage you like polar bears will.

[@sandrahiltz]

Great, so now we're going to get a building boom in Antarctica to mine oil that we need to be phasing out usage ASAP, not finding even more to help mess up the planet.

[@jasonfischer8946]

Until it's phased out, we need oil.

[@randomfire5315]

I know right. Hope we end up waking Godzilla up while mining😆

[@hiteshadhikari]

You are clueless, arent you? Phasing out oil 🤣

[@megaflux7144]

greedy assholes WILL destroy this planet.

[@gladlawson61]

Stop crying.

[@Melior_Traiano]

I’d like to know how close the Norwegian research station is and what quarantine procedures are in place for encounters with Huskies that the Norwegians are shooting at...

[@TheHigherSpace]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="505">8:25</a> ABout that, I recommend a book called the Wager, gonna be a movie by DiCaprio too ..

[@samuelgarrod8327]

SPOILER: They all get away with it.

[@douglasfernandes5172]

Amazing amazing video!

[@DavidTonner]

Thanks!

[@broslyons8045]

always good - thanks

[@Supwiyaman]

Wish b1m guy was running the UK.

[@AH-wr1qm]

That’s me driving that Pisten Bully at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="177">2:57</a>

[@lainname9442]

No you arny

[@AH-wr1qm]

@@lainname9442 is it you then?

[@asadshorts5384]

Real, i was the pisten

[@inconsistentuserdata]

"-89 Celsius" "200 mph" Choose. A. Damn. UNIT.

[@darthmaul216]

No

[@paulwhite7475]

Agreed . The British claim to work metric but still use MPH . The Australians claim to be metric but all talk in frigging PSI

[@mymaingoal......3440]

​@@darthmaul216bot

[@Sortaray]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="594">9:54</a> it´s the heat leaving, not the cold getting in :P

[@giddorm2232]

Yeaay..... more oil!

[@darthmaul216]

Great sarcasm

[@bizling]

It's really just dawned on me the British importance of the Fawkland Islands.

[@porkpie2884]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="6">0:06</a> "of the world" - and we're straight in with a small variant!

[@pinkskud1]

the wind direction over the discovery building is the other way round.

[@sjsamphex]

Captions seem really broken in the middle of this video

[@ggregory6611]

Well done!

[@swedizzle12]

I'm pretty sure StarGate Command has a military base down there too!

[@Herebuss]

Nice B roll of a Chilean ski resort (0.33). However is a different continent to Antarctica.🤣

[@NW255]

Of course there's oil. Nothing drives humans more than oil

[@strobelightbrian]

I did not realize there was that much infrastructure down there!

[@zbjz]

Australia misspelled at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="165">2:45</a>

[@ed4373]

Hi would it be possible to put the conversions of numbers on the video? For example in the opening you say -89C and 200mph, it would be really helpful to have the conversion for temp in Farenheit, and wind speed in Knots and kmh. Later in the video you talk in metres per second which I have no basis for. Absolutely LOVE your videos, and I really appreciate this one, hopefully the treaty is extended and drilling/mining is continued to be prevented! Oh and is part of Antartica just not claimed at all?

[@ManiacRacing]

Artic/Antarctic + "Bears"/"No Bears"

[@Palmtop_User]

Is this why there was a job listing for a power plant tech in antarctica?

[@lorcanduffy9590]

0.33 have they built ski lifts? is that not portillo chili?

[@zeanjackson]

When everything the narrator says about Antarctica is dangerous, however you still want to visit.

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

There's no just oil there. Supposed to be a bunch of coal deposits as well.

[@lula4148]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="33">0:33</a> that's Portillo which is the Andes, not Antarctica

[@edueduluna]

Saw it too!

[@callumgordon4216]

Damn, you beat me to it😅

[@shirkahn92]

Wind speeds in this video: Miles per hour Knots Meters per second Pleeaase use the S/I Units :)

[@VRtechman]

And what about Queen Maudland?! I didn't know about 2048! But that does help my predictions make since now. 🥵

[@id104335409]

Smells like WW3!

[@RedAppleApe]

Always does… remember „no future“? No? I also don’t know because this was even before I was born in the 90s… But on the other end even if we all would be f***ed up it would be interesting how China would swarm rush Taiwan. Black clouds of DJI drones shadowing the coast…. dystopic.

[@gladlawson61]

Stop fear mongering

[@orishaeshu1084]

No it doesn’t

[@302hobronco]

Sadly, I agree. Just watch, the US will have bases up soon

[@JP-rh7eb]

WW3 will be started by the other desolate cold wasteland with lots of resources. Antarctica is WW4.

[@CBLounge2112]

Ice Age is here and it's right on your backyard!

[@kvdsuperman]

Did i see the Dutch builder BAM there? Or is it a different company with a similar logo?

[@bloomp7999]

it have to go like this. Humans will not let such a big space untouched. Since we're even building Theme parks in the desert, why not cities in -89°C ?

[@SpiritTemple]

I love Antarctica!

[@pdmacguire]

My father supervised the installation of the nuclear reactor, "Nukey Poo", sixty years ago. He is still famous, for inventing a game which involves kicking live penguins into the mouths of killer whales

[@marekvahle]

I didnt even need to click on the video to know it was oil

[@Celis.C]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="111">1:51</a> The scramble for the accelerated extinction of current life on the planet*

[@AbstractWerks]

What is the name of the final song in the video? That sounds really familiar

[@tariq_al_fahim170]

For God's Sake leave the continent for Penguin

[@michaelgarcia8541]

The thought of waking up there is terrible

[@lilbaz8073]

Unless you are going to sleep there.

[@GenaF]

The thought of being there so far away from my home comforts absolutely terrifies me.

[@queeg6473]

after a night on the razz

[@samuelgarrod8327]

​@@GenaFDon't go then. It's not difficult.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Flat earthers are having a field day with this

[@grahamcook9289]

Oil is no excuse. We don't need it or want it. Complete waste of money.

[@nihitagrawal05]

Like oil, I am sure the coal reserves will also be found some day as fossils are buried under kilometres of depth under ice & land.

[@Mallex]

Will there be affordable housing in Antarctica