This Is Why You Can’t Go To Antarctica

[@A_Casual_NPC]

I actually have a 10 year plan im working on to go to antarctica. No joke: I'm a chef, saving up money and actively working towards moving to new zealand. Become a citizen there and then apply to become a chef at the antartica reseach base. Its been a dream I've had for quite some time now

[@waywardscythe3358]

That's amazing dude! Best of luck to you!

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Godspeed and fairweather

[@kageris6]

Best of luck to ya, and keep an eye out for the Thing!

[@jjjjrrr678]

Good luck!

[@fallyneprinciotta9058]

Amazing!!! I hope you come back and edit your comment to how well your doing Antartica.

[@TheWeatherbuff]

"Antarctica... Come for the cold... stay because you're frozen solid." (Antarctica Chamber Of Commerce)

[@CosmicCells]

"Antarctica: Because who needs feeling in their toes anyway?"

[@ElDavo9000]

Penguin noises: Penguin noises

[@BaldAndCurious]

🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆

[@BaldAndCurious]

@@CosmicCells Or noses. Who needs noses when you can't smell anymore. 🙂

[@shaneabel8716]

🤣😂🤣🤣😅🤣

[@kasumimori1798]

A Norwegian flag wasn't the only thing that Scott found at the South Pole. He also found a handwritten note from Amundsen, addressed to him, asking him to inform the Norwegian king of Amundsen's success at beating the British to the South Pole... apparently because Amundsen had other things to do before returning to Europe

[@kosmosXcannon]

Dude was flexing hard on Scott.

[@robertgibson2798]

Probably traveling on to the Iron Republic.

[@ronin4713]

@@kosmosXcannon In my experience, Norwegians are a boisterous and prideful lot - it's well earned no doubt.

[@krashd]

There was also a human turd in a jar, or would have been had I been a member of Amundsen's expedition.

[@mirzamay]

Yeah I think it was actually the demoralization that did them in in the end. They just kind of lost their fight. They should have sworn revenge! 💪 👹

[@Bombsuitsandkilts]

I'm related to Admiral Byrd, and so when I got the opportunity to go work as a diver in Antarctica, I was stoked. I installed and maintained research equipment for NOAA around Palmer station. It was the most boring 3 months of my life. I'm glad I did it, but I have no desire to do it again, especially now that I have a family.

[@revolutionaryfrog]

Wow that's really cool. I read a lot about Admiral Byrd in recent years. Did you ever get to see real original photos or artifacts from his journeys?

[@Bombsuitsandkilts]

@revolutionaryfrog nothing crazy, I remember visiting my Grandma when I was younger, and being told second hand that she hated that people tried to say the world was flat and that he would have hated that. I don't have any crazy adventures, though, other than the magical world of commercial diving and the military.

[@snitszel777]

@@revolutionaryfrogdon’t believe this kat…

[@TheJewHunter1488]

Prove it

[@MacNifty]

​@@snitszel777 he's corrupt. Military. Anybody that takes money from the government to feed their children? Corrupt. Never Independent again ever again. They get a flag when they die.

[@thedirectorschair1054]

Re: Shackleton's endurance expedition. Endurance was trapped by pack ice on January 18th 1915. The rest of the world forgot about Shackleton because it was busy with WW1. Shackleton himself was never rescued. He and five of his crew made the journey to South Georgia (800 miles across the Southern Sea in an open dinghy, navigating by glimpses of the stars to hit a pin prick of land) and Shackleton walked into the whaling station on his own two feet on May 20th. Shackleton immediately began looking for ships to rescue the rest of his party. He was thwarted several times by pack ice. So it wasn't until the 30th of August that Shackleton was able to bring rescue to the 20 men Shackleton had left sheltered on Elephant Island. They had survived not four months, but seven and a half months. One of them had suffered a heart attack. Their supplies had run out on 23rd August. Shackleton brought his entire crew home.

[@TrueReal-de6ee]

What a Boss.

[@thedirectorschair1054]

@@TrueReal-de6ee I should also have mentioned that Shackleton arrived on the wrong side of South Georgia at King Haakon Bay and three of his men collapsed. The interior of South Georgia is basically massive mountains and glaciers and had never been mapped. The nearest settlement was Stromness, 35 km away. 26km of that journey was over a giant glacier. They had no way to navigate their journey except to head due east. Shackleton and his men were dressed in fur clothes that they had been wearing for four months solid. The only equipment they had were nails taken from the James Caird that Henry McNeish hammered into their boots to make crampons. They were suffering from malnutrition, exposure and exhaustion. They had just survived a boat voyage from hell that none of them expected to survive. Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley made the final walk across the glacier. They had to walk carefully because the snow could have been concealing crevasses at any point. It took them 36 hours of almost non stop walking to cover the 36km to Stromness. Almost non stop because when they reached the edge of the glacier all three men were too exhausted to make the dangerous descent. So they sat down in front of each other and sledded down the glacier on their backsides as a human sledge. If there had been a crevasse in front of them, all three would have been lost. Shackleton's not just the boss. He's the greatest man who ever lived.

[@djmcmenus5211]

​@@thedirectorschair1054WOW! Thank you for sharing.

[@tommythetrain1945]

​@@TrueReal-de6eethat's what his crew would call him "the boss"

[@TheGrindcorps]

AntARCtica

[@fyrish100]

Haven’t been to Antarctic , but I was on an oil rig 400 km inside the arctic circle ,in July ,it was 7 degrees C ,and the sun never set overnight ,massive icebergs of all shapes were amazing . 2 weeks ,what a job

[@carlosacunacastillo6227]

@@Kenny-tc6rg there's an artic circle in the north end of the planet , and the antarctic circle is in the south of the planet.

[@carlosacunacastillo6227]

@@Kenny-tc6rg well you are the one asking the obvious , there is no dumb questions they say

[@BeefNEggs057]

@@carlosacunacastillo6227So I’d assume he was on the other end of the planet and leave it as a good story and be glad my summer is a lot hotter than that.

[@territ5126]

​@@BeefNEggs057 he must have been on the other side! In July only the Arctic circle has 24 hours light.

[@williamhayes1630]

Someone’s been playing too much rust

[@HepCatJack]

Amundsen did what most British explorers failed to do. He read the log books of every failed Polar (North Pole) expedition and learned every possible lesson as to why they failed. He noticed that in many cases the Inuit and other Native people of the North were able to rescue sailors when that number was small so he went out and studied the harness type for dog sleigh from the Natives of Greenland and Canada using what he though were the best of each design and he learned how to live in the North as they did including how to build igloos. He learned to travel light as British explorers would lug around with them heavy dishes and cutlery which was exhausting work. He had a ship designed called the Fram which had a strong hull that would pop up above the ice if it formed around it instead of being crushed and on his way to the pole he left cashes of seal meat to feed the crew on its return trip. So while Shackleton had a ship called Nimrod, Scott acted like one with his poor planning.

[@blank4227]

Nimrod was a noble god of hunting before Americans misunderstood Bugs Bunny's joke about Elmer Fudd.

[@salsamancer]

Nimrod was a hunter described in the Bible, not a god

[@sharpuslf]

@@salsamancer He inherited the actual clothes given to Adam and Eve which gave him strength as a hunter/warrior. Book of Jasher.

[@elowishusmirkatroid4898]

We learnt in Nutrition class many years ago that Admunsen's crew stayed healthy because they took dried fruit and nuts on the expedition whereas Scott's crew got scurvy from Vit C deficiency.

[@HepCatJack]

@@elowishusmirkatroid4898 if Amundsen's fully adopted the Inuit way of life he would have eaten his seal meat raw which would have provided him with Vitamin C. I read a book made from his log book about 15 years ago and don't remember seeing dried fruits and nuts being mentioned.

[@RajuSahu-gd2rr]

Honestly didn’t think something like this was even possible but once you read the ebook titled void of power it just changes everything you’ve gotta see what it’s about

[@LlamaComma]

BOT BEGONE ✋😡 I will protect us chat, stand behind me 🫵😎 🤖💥 ☄️✋😎

[@DocFear]

Harry Potter is also a book and I'm not about to believe Hogwarts is real 🤦🏻

[@mjp152]

"Deep Lake" - named by the same linguistic equilibrists that gave us The Rocky Mountains, The Big Blue River and The Great Sandy Desert.

[@OLDMANTEA]

We should consider leaving 15 million year ecosystem alone eh?

[@somebodysomewhere6770]

A lot of places have very direct names but only feel exotic because they come from different languages. Arctic just means "place where bears are"

[@davidbagley1783]

😂

[@FringeWizard2]

​@@OLDMANTEANo. We should explore it.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@somebodysomewhere6770yep, same with a bunch of stuff like animals (bear means "brown"), plants (pretty sure there's quite a few "tree" trees, but the one that comes to mind is the ash tree which means "ash tree" tree [ash=aesc="ash tree"]), and minerals (lithiophilite means "stone loving stone" [it's supposed to mean lithium loving stone, but lithium is just "stone + ium"]). I'd say humans are just bad at naming things, but then I remember "Robotnikinin", "Pikachurin", "POKEMOn", "Mothers Against Decapentaplegic", and "Lunatic Fringe" and my faith is restored

[@sl8ofhand]

Shackleton and crew were stranded on the ice for over 16 months. The ship was trapped for nine(9) months before it was crushed by the pack ice. It was six months later that they landed a boat on Elephant Island, where the crew awaited rescue while Shackleton and his boat could reach South Georgia island and arrange to rescue the entire crew.The final rescue from Elephant Island was over two years after the expedition left England.

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

He got all his boys home though right?

[@Classical741]

It's dismissive of Joe to snarkilly blow off what those explorers accomplished with their commitment, curiosity, intelligence, patience, and sheer strength of mind and body. Hubris? I think not. nd wraps it in "hubris".

[@Juhani139]

Shackleton was a legend!

[@mb-3faze]

I read that Amundsen was upset when he found out that Scott had died on the ice because he knew the popular historical record would be "Scott of the Antarctic" not "Amundsen of the Antarctic".

[@lucassmith1886]

It genuinely sounds like one of the most terrifying events probably ever experienced by any small group of people. Ever.

[@PeterMoxilin]

Man, I want to hear the account of the first guy to see a glacier bleeding. "Uhh... Captain? I think we should go back. NOW."

[@dinoschachten]

It does really spark the imagination, doesn't it? Even as a scientist coming upon this for the first time might make you wonder if it's some unexpected chemical phenomenon, colourful micro organisms, or perhaps some huge creature that met its demise at the top of the falls...

[@R.D.S.Productions]

Probably red bacteria commonly found in snow

[@aaronbourque5494]

Lovecraft had to invent an unimaginably huge mountain range and weird aliens to make a scary Antarctic expedition, meanwhile the real Antarctica bleeds.

[@jpotter2086]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[@Cyromantik]

"The walls of the 54th Precinct are _bleeding_."

[@anon69669]

I watched the whole video. He talks about a lot of crazy conspiracies but never once even mentions "why you can't go to antarctica"

[@concreteman03]

I bet "conspiracy theorists" live rent free in his head

[@Hhhh22222-w]

​@@concreteman03 it's to lull the gullible conspiracy theorists, they thought they found a video that made them feel good, turns out it was an educational and factual video

[@ma.storysinging]

I appreciate people like you❤❤

[@alclay8689]

​@@Hhhh22222-w just out of curiosity, how do you know it's the facts, the whole facts, and nothing but the facts? Ever been?

[@anon69669]

@@ma.storysinging same to you. Encantado por ❤❤❤

[@jimmyzhao2673]

Shackleton: I'm recruiting some Dogs for another Antarctic expedition. Dogs: 👀

[@MongooseTacticool]

"My uncle Spot went on the last expedition. What happened to him?"

[@Cool_boy258]

I'm getting hungry

[@T3hderk87]

Yo dawg, wass happenin?

[@MetroCop2077]

😂😂😂😂

[@warlarksam6130]

"I'm putting together a team"

[@rockyroad7345]

That's weird....my cousin went to Antarctica a few years ago....as a tourist. Metallica played a concert on Antarctica...the only band in the world to play on all 7 continents.

[@hurstiwursti]

Yep there is tourism, super bad for the eco system and shitty to do but possible. There is even space tourism i think.

[@trueneese8080]

@@hurstiwurstimust protect Antarctica!!! I mean let’s kill each other, but one thing we can all agree on is let’s not pollute Antarctica 😂

[@randymarsh1729]

@@trueneese8080 far too late if the russians already put all that anti freeze and glycol down there D:

[@Quincy_Morris]

@@hurstiwurstithe eco system only matters as long as it benefits humanity.

[@hurstiwursti]

@@Quincy_Morris only from a human centric perspective. Plus in that case it should matter alot mote because rn we ruin the one hospitable Planet we have access to for future generation just to generate luxus for a few selected individuals... I don't see how any of that is good for humanity.

[@sascotttx5145]

I traveled to Antarctica in 2004. I didn't witness anything strange or mysterious. As a photographer I thought I was going to a black & white world. Maybe Hurley's images had something to do with that, but I was amazed at all of the color there and how brilliant it all was, the deep blues of the water, the pink of the sunsets and the saturated orange of the night sky followed by the pink of sunrise. The Drake Passage was a walk in the park, both ways.

[@tommythetrain1945]

Frank Hurley. Good photographer. Shackleton and his men were hard af

[@darrenhenderson6921]

@@tommythetrain1945yeah it’s beautiful, how were you travelling? Did you see it at night?

[@sidalikouchkar7368]

Can I see the pictures please

[@darrenhenderson6921]

@@sidalikouchkar7368 he’s getting them developed on Pandora before his ship lands

[@tubbiechaser3637]

Where can anybody go to look up your pictures? Or there isn't such a place with any pictures?

[@ryanjames5340]

I did my own research, watched the first 00:30 seconds and I can now confirm my belief that the world is flat. Thank you so much. I’m sure you further proved this throughout the video but no need to sell me on it thanks!

[@StevenEveral]

"For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." - Sir Raymond Priestley

[@chrsmcfrln]

The other interpretation of that quote is that Shackleton was most likely to put you in a hopeless situation. Frank Wild and Frank Worsley dug his incompetence out of the Endurance disaster. Also, no one mentions the Aurora when glorifying Shackleton. This was the Ross Sea support ship to the Endurance expedition. It was a total disaster with many casualties. Bottom line, Shackleton was good in a crisis, but his terrible planning kept putting him and others in a crisis.

[@raywhitehead730]

Well said. History still lives in Antarctica.

[@wrightmf]

Few days ago I watched a TED talk of "Why do we celebrate incompetent leaders." Speaker mentions Shackleton gets lots of recognition where Amundsen is not that well known. The speaker said Shackleton's stories are more interesting about the struggles and human endurance. Where Amundsen from his years of training crew made it look easy (not much for story telling). These polar explorers is an example of why people celebrate leaders that are high-sounding even though their leadership can lead to disaster. As compared to leaders that do proper planning. And we see this happening all over the place right now.

[@dancarter482]

@@wrightmf Amundsen's book is fantastic - I've read all the others and his is the only really enjoyable adventure.

[@Lauren_K13]

Would be a good movie

[@JennyT101]

Roald Amundsen planned so well, and carried his plan out so well that no one talks about him. His trip went too smoothly to be an interesting story.

[@yvindharila8225]

First too the South pole, probably the first to the north pole, and most likely the biggest "a-hole" to ever reach either :-p

[@papabob53johnson46]

The English, controlled, the organization that help sponsor Soctt Trip. Also , his wife was able to push his story .

[@willboy334]

"If you do something right, people won't be sure you did anything at all"

[@ricardowest7695]

I was study this for years n a split griup of the us army dont want u to be there..what consequencǰes n impact will have this on our society...

[@dagfinissocool]

he's a hero to us Norwegians but obviously he would be more famous if he was british or american

[@ukecycle298]

For the record, Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance were stranded for a lot longer than four months. Endurance became icebound on January 17, 1915, and drifted with the pack ice until it was crushed and sank on November 21. The crew then camped on the ice as it drifted northward, then made their way across the ice hauling their gear and supplies in the lifeboats until they found open water on April 9, 1916, reaching Elephant Island on April 14. On April 24, Shackleton and five of the crew set off in one of the lifeboats, which had been modified by the ship’s carpenter using planks from the other two boats. They sailed to South Georgia Island, 800 miles away. They landed on May 10, on the opposite side of the island from the whaling station which was the only settlement, and had to cross mountains to get there. THEN…. It took FOUR attempts to mount a rescue operation to get the remaining crew from Elephant Island, finally succeeding on August 30. Every single member of the crew survived. January 17, 1915 to August 30, 1916, definitely more than four months! One of most amazing feats of history.

[@StrongerThanBigfoot]

That’s incredible they survived covering that distance

[@davidioanhedges]

the only casualty was the Ship's Carpenter's Cat ... Shot on Shackleton's orders ... The Carpenter McNish never forgave him, and Shackleton prevented him form getting the Polar medal as the rest of the crew did ...

[@13donstalos]

Aktchooallee...

[@Luv-kz3jj]

Yea it was a good show. A little slow though

[@donrobertson4940]

And then the survivors got sent to the western front and killed.

[@rl3810]

I was a hair dresser back in 1999. This man would come in every 2 weeks and get a high and tight flat top. I was the only person he let do his hair. He was so intimidating as I was in my early 20s and was a light hearted, not so serious person. One day he came in and told me he was going to be away for 6 months. I asked where he was going and he said he was doing research in Antarctica. He told me they were recruiting healthy fit young people. I fit the bill. I declined as I moved down south from the north for a reason...LOL I hate the cold. I wished him luck and I never saw him again because I moved shops and got my own chair. I wonder about him from time to time and I think he was probably some officer in the military of some sort, due to not only the flat tops but going to do research in Antarctica. I love good mysteries.

[@SunGodSe]

Reptilian shapeshifter

[@seyerus]

Yeah, that was probably John. He looks after the air conditioning there.

[@KA-jm2cz]

Or he was criminal and goed in jail. Never know. Many get alcholistic in that remote and desperate place. There is not much else to do. Snow is boring after first day and cold after few minutes.

[@deletedaccount175]

Yes it's both peculiar that they would recruit off the street and that nobody else seems to find that weird. I could only surmise it's because they need expendable people. Which you know, adds to the mystery.

[@emankcin1701]

Wait a moment... 🧐🤔 Haircut every two weeks 😯

[@schweinhund7966]

Admundsen deserves a LOT more credit than you gave him! Why did he make it look so easy? Because he studied the problem, examined numerous solutions from various sources and displayed quality leadership. The worst performing dogs were regularly eaten at intervals as sled loads decreased and thus helped prevent scurvy. Scott was disgusted that dogs ate their own feces and thus ultimately went with man-hauled sleds… and died coming back.

[@MowgliX]

Amundsen

[@DoubLL]

​@Joshuatree7746 are you okay?

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

Scott didn’t plan to haul his sleds manually. Originally he had intended to use steam tractors (they didn’t work in the cold) and alternately horses (Capt Oates was a cavalry officer) but the horses weren’t up to it.

[@alanclark639]

Amundsen and his crew ate ALL his dogs by the end of their mission, the ones that weren't doing so well just went first. The remaining dogs were fed the entrails of their one time buddies while the humans ate the "better" cuts, don't forget that the Chinese regard dog as a delicacy. There ain't alot of vitamin C in a dog - you need to eat fruit & veggies as fresh as possible with little cooking. Modern travellers take pills of course!

[@alanclark639]

@@bob_the_bomb4508 The "horses" were tough little native breed ponies - but they weren't up to the exceptionally low temperatures experienced - not unfortunately - was anyone else.

[@arkansaninva]

I went to the Antarctica museum in Christchurch, New Zealand about fifteen years ago, and it was FASCINATING. They have a room you can spend about a minute in where the temperature is what you'd experience in a typical day in Antarctica. I highly recommend it to anyone who goes to Christchurch

[@BTinSF]

Well, gosh, I spent about 450 "typical days" on Ross Island near New Zealand's Scott Base to which, along with the US McMurdo Base, I provided medical care for over a year. Never saw the museum, though. Where was it--at the airport where the US Operation Deep Freeze base was?

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@BTinSF OC says Christchurch in post.

[@Muritaipet]

@@BTinSF It's called the International Antarctic Centre. It is near the airport, and is quite expensive.

[@BTinSF]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 Yeah, but Christchurch is a city. That's like saying the Empire State Building is in New York.. Where in Christchurch/New York? As I said, the US Antarctica support base was at the Christchurch airport so that's the logical place to put an Antarctic-related museum but I don't recall seeing it there. I would have enjoyed visiting.

[@Nequiquam]

⁠@@BTinSFIt’s literally right next to the CDC where you deploy to McMurdo.

[@BrettFogle]

Interesting video. My dad was Director of Polar Programs for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and would go to Antarctica every 2 years. He helped build out McMurdo Station which is now being used as a 'test city' for future colonization of Mars, and had a mountain peak named after him (Fogle Peak). Dad passed in 2022 but we have lots of memories of his trips to the South Pole. One day I will go.

[@glennbeadshaw727]

You're not allowed to go there I'm the only one allowed to go there and I'm going next weekend

[@GershTalentAbeny]

hi thank you for sharing that.. in my condolences and prayers for the passing of your father; I myself lost my father in the past year. My dad was an engineer.. my whole life I have been fascinated with the Antarctic! I mean like he says in the video it's so big it's like what is bigger than America & mesoamerica ? but I've read many books and I've seen Declassified files: how about Admiral Birds a trip to Antarctica with a wolf Fleet and lost to the Nazis.. do you have any stories on this your dad might have told you? or any other stories about Antarctica? I feel in my heart of hearts that there is some kind of inner part; which is encased by all that ice is probably some of the most Lush and beautiful land in the planet.. and that's why they don't allow many people there.. but I love to hear more stories! Ty

[@ZzriD]

@@glennbeadshaw727 thats why my father is there in this moment we talk , Brett if someday you wanna talk about our father my door is open :)

[@FurnaceFuneral84]

I got like #200

[@barbaraembry3186]

What years was he there Brett? He must have been there early on. They are actually rebuilding McMurdo to make it more modern. I loved my time there and it was such a wonderful experience.

[@JcCampbell-q4w]

I find it interesting you spoke about many things about Antarctica but never once mentioned the largest expedition of Admiral Richard Byrd, how come?

[@OdariArt]

Antarctica is the place where you want to get away from it all... kinda.

[@schmitz4206]

I feel like you've left some words out from your comment, it took me a couple of attempts 😂

[@ericlipps9459]

And never come back.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

Just like Kokomo 😅

[@malavoy1]

I know a few managers I'd like to send there under the guise of a raise in pay and position. Sort of a take it or retire offer.

[@t.r.4496]

Is it me or does this man look like Captain Sig Hansen has a clone.

[@shanemacbike2]

Man Ive never heard such an underwhelming account of the Endurance. He says they were stranded on the ice for four months before being rescued. They spent 15 fucking month stranded on floating ice and there was no rescue. They had to rescue themselves. The 28 men somehow managed to row to Elephant Island, and from there, spent another 125 days stranded on a rock as Shackleton and 5 others navigated the most treacherous waters in the world, for 21 days, in Antarctic winter, in a tiny wooden boat. And then hiked across unmapped glaciers to find help. Its unfathomable. If youre gonna make a video about Antarctica, please give those men the respect they deserve

[@colepeltier8472]

Chill

[@Jonsmith669]

Have you ever been invited to a party?

[@dbat480]

Agreed

[@Six_Gorillion]

Crazy dudes. Men were built different back then for sure.

[@Man_of_Tears]

Coolest non-fiction book 'Shackleton's journey' I ever read as a 15-year old. Edit: or called 'Endurance', actually?

[@georgejones5664]

No, the lakes under the Antarctica were postulated to exist in the late 1950s by Igor A Zotikov, a colleague of mine. Yes, heated by the less than a tenth of a watt per square metre low level heat flow. The about 3500 m of ice forms a thermal blanket, allowing the water to melt at just below 0 deg C. He wrote a book about Lake Vostok that explains the story in detail.

[@Will-dn9dq]

Ice freezing top down insulation the water below. Had water froze dense like literally everything else we'd not be here

[@StormyTwoeagle]

Thumbnail looks like a whole ass far cry map

[@showsnstuff8284]

"Far Cry 7: Ice Lands"

[@Judgementfr]

Far Cry: Cry Far

[@forton615]

As a Belgian I have to mention the Belgica with captain Adrien de Gerlache who were the first to do a proper scientific expedition, 12 years before anyone was thinking about reaching the south pole. They spent the whole winter there purposefully letting their ship freezing in and made it back one year later. One guy died of a weak heart, another one fell overboard, and some others went crazy from the endless darkness. All considered quite successful, relatively speaking. Oh, and they had Roald Amundsen as a crewmember. It's not all British or American.

[@clueless4085]

"Qualified success" is my favorite kind of success.

[@Dularr]

What did they discover?

[@tilleul6917]

@@Dularr This : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgica_antarctica

[@mattrawson1311]

@@tilleul6917 wiki 🤣

[@thoreau283]

Belgium is a rumor, best don't spread it.

[@robertjennings7282]

Some more fun facts: Antarctica has 138 active volcanoes. Mount Erebus is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and spews out 80 grams/$6,000 worth of gold every day. It's sprayed out in hot gases as ultra fine dust crystals, so it's not like there's nuggets scattered around the volcano anyone can pick up and pocket.

[@jayfraser6152]

There is something going on in Antarctica, we will only find out when lots of whistle blowers come out and spilll all the beans 😅t

[@Hudson316]

Fun fact about a fun fact, Mount Erebus and Mount Terror (other than being two of the most epic volcano names) were named after the two ships of one of the expeditions to chart Antarctica, the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, better known for when they were later refitted as makeshift icebreakers with terrible steam engines and used for the Franklin Expedition trying to find the Northwest Passage north of Canada, where the ships were trapped in ice and the crew got the fun combo of botulism (from poorly canned food), lead poisoning (from the solder on said cans) and scurvy (because they ran out of fresh food) and eventually abandoned the ships to be crushed by the ice, trying to walk to the nearest outpost, with the entire crew dying en route from starvation, disease, cold and cannibalism. Also fictionalised in the book and TV show “The Terror” which reimagines their deaths as being hunted by an Inuit spirit creature resembling a polar bear

[@EpicMother249]

Thank you for clarifying the gold info. 12 of 100 viewers were already planning trips to get rich!

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

'My salty gold all melted!'

[@clueless4085]

Well shit, what am I going to do with that ship I chartered?!

[@Billywashere89]

Shacklton is the MVP of making sure his people make it back what a champ

[@KonradTheWizzard]

For some really weird reason I would prefer not being in trouble and not needing any heroics from my expedition leader. Amundsen for the win!

[@CatchersCatch]

I read or heard somewhere that it wasn't Shackleton, but some New Zealand fella that lead the way. Don't quote me.

[@adrianwebster6923]

Or a failure who kept making dumb decisions that put his teams in danger. Amundsen is the true leader who didnt put his teams in danger in the first place.

[@KonradTheWizzard]

@@CatchersCatch Either way the responsibility is with the expedition leader. If he chose the wrong fella as a guide again and again then this is a major failure on Shackleton's part. It was his responsibility to bring the right people, the right equipment, enough provisions and prepare sufficiently. It's okay to be unlucky once. Shackleton failed many times.

[@tehfiredog]

@@adrianwebster6923 That's not actually true. Amundsen was so obsessed with beating Scott to the pole that he tried to make the trip far too early and put the crew in serious risk before he had his own Shackleton moment and ordered everyone back. Thankfully no lives were lost in the process and his second attempt was obviously a roaring success.

[@PaulG.x]

Antarctica's coastline is also not a continuous cliff of ice. I went to Ross Is in the early 1990s to repair some lab analysers. They were fine , the Americans would deliver them at the beginning of each season and leave them for a week or so on the ice runway after off loading them from the plane. They would freeze up and need attention. USAF - no clues. Once we knew what the "problem" was it didn't happen again. I saw Scott's base camp and lived at McMurdo Station for six days , waiting for a flight back to New Zealand. I also visited New Zealand's Scott Base Research centre . I spent most days riding the bus that traveled between McMurdo , Scott Base and the ice runway. The place gets boring real quick. The weather was 'warm' , the puddles had liquid water , I walked between the lab and the main buildings in a shirt and jeans.

[@sgtbrown4273]

Loved your video! And a warm.........-27 degrees Fahrenheit welcome from McMurdo Station Antarctica. The winter over crew says hello! 😊👍

[@RealBradMiller]

Almost to that winter solstice!! Cheers friend! Beneath the Southern Cross it gleams, In the heart of explorers' dreams, Amidst the chill and icy mirth, It anchors souls to the edge of Earth. Auroras dance in cold twilight, Painting the heavens in vibrant light, Scientists and others toil with ardent zeal, Unraveling secrets the ice conceals. Though the winds howl and blizzards roar, McMurdo's spirit forever soars, In this frozen realm so vast and grand, Human tenacity takes a stand.

[@dancarter482]

Have you had a chance to compare _Iridium_ to _Starlink_ ? Be interested to know what the best remote set up most expeditions rely on these days.

[@ThestuffthatSaralikes]

@sgtbrown4273 I gotta nerd out a little… 🤯 visiting Antarctica is on my “shit that’s never gonna happen but it’s fun to dream” version of my bucket list. Dunno why. I just became a little obsessed after learning about the Shackleton Expeditions as a kid… the crazy stories I’ve read over the years of “interesting and unexplainable” things seen and heard in Antarctica, the waterfalls, the “bleeding” glaciers and I think the little pod thingies yall live in would be neat. 🤷‍♀️

[@Glebatron]

You people are on the frontiers of human habitation in extreme environments, technically further away from civilization than the ISS crew. I salute you

[@gmcb118]

​@@RealBradMiller❤that's perfect. Had me imagining all sorts

[@judewarner1536]

You CAN go to Antarctica. There are numerous passenger ships taking tourists in the Antarctic summer season. What you CAN'T DO, is stroll around everywhere because it is tremendously big and very cold even in "summer".

[@ledhiz]

Thats right, I kinda hate these videos which straight up lie in the title. It could be titled just that its illegal, hard or dangerous, but saying someone or "you" cant go there is just a lie.

[@ChristopherHughes-x9y]

@@ledhiz Or the nonsense about that ship finding a huge ice wall and traveling back to the exact same place... Just stupidity

[@rachinvocat9587]

@@ChristopherHughes-x9yi dont think he meant literally and there are parts if it that just loop around

[@blacklanner5886]

You CAN stroll around. I've been there a couple of times, and walking is very easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@ethananderson4578]

@@ChristopherHughes-x9yit literally is a huge ice wall, it’s not at every single point but that’s what it is, also that bit was a joke about how byrd thought it was a ring around the world

[@salvatronprime9882]

Kurt Russel made a documentary about his trip to Antarctica in the 80's.

[@graydenday3760]

That was John Carpenter. Kurt Russel was just in it.

[@YeetusaurusRex]

Documentary?!? 😂😂

[@Just_Sara]

This is one under-rated comment right here.

[@finnmcginn9931]

​@@Just_SaraI was about to go search for the documentary until my wife laughed at me.

[@bjones5791]

😳🫣😳.....oh,the flashbacks....i was twelve and had ZERO reference to horror as a religious country farm kid.Absolutely scarred me for YEARS!!😂😂😂

[@рагнаррагнрыч]

Missed opportunity on naming the video "Antarctica Iceberg Explained"

[@nominou6]

Richard E. Byrd went there several times between 1928 - 1956. Yet, not a single word about his expeditions.

[@12GAFL]

Because Falcon is a cooler name than Byrd. I guess.

[@rosemarygriffin2184]

You obviously haven't watched his TV interview about it then?

[@nominou6]

@@rosemarygriffin2184 IF you are replying to me, well, let's see ... that's about 12 years now that we do not have any TV. Which also means not using the internet as a substitute source for the same TV programming.

[@nominou6]

@ThisistheEnd66699 So you're part of some anti-Richard E. Byrd congregation then. What a way to spiral down to oblivion.

[@solinvictus5349]

He reported that his fleet fell to an ambush of swift and deadly flying discs where most of their ships had been wiped out whilst chasing the German submarines towards the end of the war

[@Pabloworldwide]

I worked as an industrial electrician in Antarctica for two 6 month rotations at two different bases over 2 years (2001-02). An amazingly beautiful and extremely inhospitable paradise. Well, I loved nearly every moment I lived and worked there. I highly recommend anyone with the necessary skills and those who can afford a cruise to definitely do your best to visit Antarctica.

[@HENRIVICTORIOUS1]

What's the pay like these days? I'm an electrician 🧐

[@ryanlambert7018]

Dude said he was there over 20 years ago why would you assume he knows the current economics?

[@Pabloworldwide]

@GRAVEAUDIO a friend from Australia is an industrial electrician. He did 2 x 7 month rotations in 2018 - 19 and if I remember correctly, he came home with $70k tax free Australian dollars for each rotation.

[@Pabloworldwide]

@GRAVEAUDIO get online and look into employment opportunities down there. You need to be fit and healthy with no serious issues like epilepsy or other medical ailments. You also need to do a survival course, which includes being dumped into water in a mock helicopter, and you have to unbuckle and get out unassisted by the safety dive team. It's a bit full-on to begin with, but what you get in return will be a highlight of your life. If you are serious, I wish you all the best my friend. 👍🏾

[@Pabloworldwide]

@ryanlambert7018 indeed, but I have a few good friends who are still part of various expeditions. The pay is way more than I got nowadays, but back then, $56k tax-free was pretty darn good.

[@mmoren3]

You didn’t mention Admiral Byrd’s expeditions following WW2

[@MegaDirtyberty]

Can't have the people know what happened during those expeditions...

[@JFrazer4303]

Operation High Jump was real, and i suppose useful to show how far away from being able to do anything actually useful down there, the typical military organization and the best military technology of the day was.

[@kewlbeone5949]

You missed Admiral Bird.

[@iammaximus614]

… and have his personal diary read

[@ronin4713]

Some people believe everything they hear on the internet... 🤣

[@ianwash8817]

I love how he says, even though it hits -20°C and stops and stares at the camera like it’s the coldest even though I stare back thinking I have to go to work in -30°C cause I’m Canadian

[@tonyattardo9350]

Move away

[@Pandastar27]

I'm in the US and it gets that cold where I am

[@MyVanir]

Which suggests he is full of shit.

[@tregoboing]

even the briefest search will show the average winter temp is -49degC and coldest -89. Seems like the video is not well researched in all matters judging by more informed people in the comments.

[@Enjoyurble]

I thought the reason I couldn't go was because I was broke as fudge, but thank you for bringing even more reasons to my attention.

[@codename495]

See, it’s not your fault after all. The PLANET doesn’t want you to go.

[@joshuaburke2446]

Thanks Obama

[@JoshuaBortnick]

I can't go because I'm broke and a felon and jewish. 3 things that you never see together

[@charleshulsey3103]

😂

[@dannydetonator]

@JoshuaBortnick I guess a very rare combination, but why would the last two impede your Antarctic dreams?

[@chriswatson7965]

Lake Vostok is not buried under "nearly a mile of ice", it's buried under 4km (2.5 miles) of ice.

[@Atreyuwu]

wild

[@rev.wilkinsonstalesofmyste9027]

A shitload of ice. More ice than I can use in my color. Way too much ice. Got it.

[@gerrydean7696]

meh.

[@whimsythecrypto-hippy-wolf1900]

2.5 is nearly 1

[@kineticinstallationspecial5775]

@@whimsythecrypto-hippy-wolf1900 Yes, on a grand scale 2.5 is very nearly 1. - Big Brain Brad

[@FloatingSpark]

The sound of the singing glacier woke up my deeply sleeping cats and TRIPPED them out, they looked around all confused and SUPER freaked out!! Something about the super low tones I think.

[@dougerrohmer]

Nah, I think it's just that your cat can speak glacier and knows what is being said about us...

[@starkraft2506]

Guess that means it's time to educate your felines about Aphex Twin

[@FloatingSpark]

@@starkraft2506 🤣 Oh God, one of them already rolls around purring while the other gets all flustered and tries to start a fight with him when I sing high or low notes, I dread to think of what would happen if I played Aphex Twin!

[@cinmar720]

I read your comment before I heard the singing glaciers. Now I’m losing it just picturing your cats flipping out. Thanks for the laugh. 😂

[@Sciborg9]

My cats were also very concerned about this sound

[@OrlandoSlikRik]

Nothing on Admiral Byrd???? Seems as if you PURPOSELY glosses over THAT one

[@TheSteveSteele]

There’s not much to say. He went there, surveyed the area and came back.

[@henkvermeer8652]

@@TheSteveSteele There is no novellist lost in you.

[@Tokru86]

Fun fact about these dry valleys completely devoid of snow and ice: In one of the recent BBC documentaries they showed a mummified seal just lying there on the ground. Nobody knows how it got there, apparently it's far away from the ocean, or when. And due to the eternal dryness there they said for all we know it could be thousands of years old.

[@nigelbenn4642]

Carbon date it then, I mean ffs, do I have to think of everything?

[@sierratango6574]

​@@nigelbenn4642 LMAO

[@LadyhawksLairDotCom]

@@nigelbenn4642They have. I just did a quick Google...interesting (and creepy) mummies of different ages.

[@nigelbenn4642]

@@LadyhawksLairDotCom There's your answer then.

[@Blackstar-ti4py]

​@@nigelbenn4642 carbon dating is about as good as random guess

[@RRW359]

The dry valleys (the place with the blood falls) are so interesting to learn about until you get to the part about the mummified seals that wandered there as pups and then starved to death.

[@deaw87]

Aawwww 😢

[@jacktherimmer]

What a waste of good seals, a good clubbing session is a great team bonding day out.

[@rockhavenfarms7213]

You'd swear that the dogs were part of the meal plan in most of these expeditions

[@RedTail1-1]

.... They were... It was a well-known thing.

[@jar9153]

Emergency foods

[@hotdog9262]

@@jar9153 also planned as food source

[@killaproject844]

so they were all filipinos?!?!

[@Fujiko341315]

"Sir, the dogs can't run anymore!" "Then they'll have to wok."

[@andyking7621]

How have I only just come across this channel? Excellent work.

[@parkhous5467]

I remember when I first became aware of Shackleton and what happened. It was a lesson in how easily incredible feats can go completely unnoticed by the masses; proof of how utterly insignificant we are to the World in general whereas only in relationships do we exist and truly matter. We named our cat after him and he's still going, at 21.5 years old.

[@solaris808]

Just lost my cat. He was 28 yrs old. I miss him terribly

[@karin3507]

@@solaris808 so sorry for your loss..remember he is only a THOUGHT away..Godspeed.

[@solaris808]

@@karin3507 thank you. I know I will be with him again…..

[@solaris808]

@@karin3507 I keep crying. I wish the transition was not portrayed as something we should be afraid of…..but something we should love. I’m trying to adjust my heart.

[@EmM-963]

It takes time,. If you allow yourself to fully feel (no suppression) the grief it lessons a bit sooner. You were so lucky to have had them 28 years.

[@supking403]

Antarctica lore is so tasty High jump, blood falls, ancient pyramids, hollow earth it’s all way better than most lore people make nowadays

[@A123-d8o]

when you realize the fleet that went down for highjump...man...i believe zero conspiracies...but when i found out that was real i was like wait what lol

[@christophermullins7163]

​@@A123-d8oi believe zero conspiracies. So you don't have a fkn clue about the true nature of your reality?

[@ginnydare13]

@@A123-d8o the world is run by conspiritors. The whole fleet tried to fly southward and hit a wall. It's mentioned in the 1958 Encyclopedia Americana before conspiritors removed it from most history books.

[@LaurentCassaro]

@@ginnydare13 Total BS. Everyone on Earth can SEE that the Earth ISN'T flat.

[@JohnP-nm7lp]

@@LaurentCassaro They can ? Where is the body of water that isn't surface level? Can you show us one?

[@holdfasthomie5768]

I always thought I couldn't go to Antarctica because I don't own a North Face jacket.

[@SmokeBurp]

i have one. i still cant go.

[@Carlito84Qc]

@@SmokeBurp Sure you can go, just book a flight...

[@SmokeBurp]

@@Carlito84Qc no i mean because im busy

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

@@SmokeBurp Yeah, you need a South Face jacket.

[@luv2luv720]

😅

[@dustbin5044]

You forgot to mention Mount Erebus is an active supervolcano that most volcano experts overlook. Apparently it's so cold that when there is an eruption the lava instantly turns to gold.

[@-paulmp]

I've worked in Antarctica... it is insanely hostile to human life, even in "summer". I loved every minute of being there. I want to go back and would drop everything and go right this minute if the opportunity presented itself.

[@muthascorpio]

Iconic!

[@EffectualPoet]

why

[@-paulmp]

@@EffectualPoet which part are you asking why about?

[@stevearnold8265]

We can start our own country there?

[@BANyoutubedictatorship]

genius comment! for those that know

[@vaman33]

I went to Antarctica in 1989 by boat from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula. I spent ten days there with all the penguins, and the icebergs were amazing. I am aware of what you are talking about, and it is a huge continent so I only saw a small part. I was quite amazing non the less.

[@Sniperboy5551]

I have a family member in the National Guard who flies to Antarctica multiple times a year. He has some cool stories.

[@kezzen3930]

I have a cousin who works there as an electrician on a 3 monthly contract. He really enjoys it there at least he keeps reapplying to go back.

[@JohnPreston888]

@CaptainBollocks.... My thoughts exactly 😉👍

[@dereks1264]

"Singing dunes" are actually surprisingly common in desert areas, although it's usually the sand that's "singing".

[@ronin4713]

"What are dunes made of?" "Sand." This comment is the definition of "pedantry".

[@jondoe399]

Antarctica was forest until the dinosaurs released too much flatulence and caused climate change and died.

[@NicholasMcClure]

Really impressed with the commitment to consistency with the Falcon screech every time Robert Falcon Scott's name is called. Chef's kiss.

[@CAHSR2020]

Really impressed you took the time to describe the joke with unnecessary detail. Forehead kiss.

[@bwfvc7770]

There's a really good story about Deception Island.

[@meowM30Wmew]

Made me wanna click off the video

[@jackmedeiros2690]

One incorrect statement, the fastest recorded wind speeds on Earth are on Mt Washington, New Hampshire. Recorded at over 200 mph. That's why if you visit the weather observatory on the summit, all the buildings have massive foundations and the buildings are chained down. Just a little fyi :)

[@tomaskey6844]

Was there on a calm day with only 50-70 mph winds.

[@JackRowsey]

Been there in the summer. Calm winds.

[@hotdog9262]

200mph is that an average

[@KevinVenturePhilippines]

I grew up in Alaska and the number of people that not only think there are penguins there (there are none) is just as crazy as the number of people that think there are polar bears, wolves, or other land predators besides humans in Antarctica, which of course is, none. And if you didn't know, now ya know. It's an interesting world, explore it. 🤘😎

[@GODHATESADOPTION]

Antarctica literally is greek for without bears

[@eessppeenn001]

Penguins are predators They prey on fish

[@charliebates9098]

Grizzly bears right

[@Fractal379]

So, to clarify, you grew up in Alaska but haven't been to Antarctica?

[@billstrasburg384]

Antarctica is pretty desolate. I only saw one penguin there, outside of McMurdo Base. But I saw a bunch of them at the beach in New Zealand on the way there.

[@Michael-iw3ek]

You do realize that Scott wasn't really a falcon, right? He was a human.

[@RM_VFX]

Most of human exploration has really been the search for resources: more land, more gold, more drinking water, more money. Turns out, when everything is frozen solid, there's not much to find. The risk/reward ratio is balanced firmly toward...risk.

[@angry-white-men]

There were thriving civilizations on Antartica before the earth's magnetic poles shifted causing it to freeze over.

[@FringeWizard2]

​@@angry-white-men Proof?

[@colosalkompakt]

Fine job skipping over the entire Operation High Jump with just mentioning it like "nah, there's nothing to the new propulsion system theory"...... -Admiral Byrd and his radio interviews, the soviet documents that got out at their release etc, it's "nothing".

[@gabrielfranco1899]

Exactlly plousible deniability

[@mustbsavdbyjesus]

I felt like the whole video was to confirm normal…everything can be explained within reason and we can be “sure” of life as we know it.

[@blakeshawke1934]

I swear the government pays people to be like " nah it's science" that's a mountain with 4 equal sides. not a pyramid dummy.

[@numbdigger9552]

The Highjump story is such BS and Byrd was a liar. Simple as that.

[@052RC]

@@numbdigger9552 Next you're going to try and tell us the Earth isn't flat.

[@KingTuT876]

I was hoping you would mention Metallica playing a concert on Antarctica in 2013. They werent allowed to use any kind of amplification, so they had to transmit what they were playing to headphones the audience was wearing.

[@Just_Sara]

Where were they? My sister was at McMurdo at the time, were they there??

[@naradaian]

Sticking all heavymetal bands in a frozen waste - to preserve their dna for the future - a very good idea.

[@bentucker2301]

So they had a silent disco...

[@thefrizmeister3666]

The falcon screech every time Joe said Robert Falcon Scott 😂 has made my day. I'm cracking up over here 🤣

[@jordanteichman2397]

Ditto! As soon as I heard it the 2nd time, I knew this wasn't a coincidence, so... I had to go the comments.

[@djgeorge1469]

Lake Vostok "completely isolated from the rest of the world for 15 million years." Probably still rife with microplastics though.

[@JoshuaBortnick]

Haha!

[@ChrisRash]

And PFAS!

[@katiebarber407]

sadly we are indeed finding microplastic contamination has seeped into even historical digsights

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Microplastics are stored in the balls

[@anthonydoyle7370]

@@Flesh_Wizard Yep. It's just a matter of time before humankind is just a load , , of barbies and Kens.

[@Dubtee]

I'm from Alaska. The amount of people who asked me about penguins growing up is pretty nutty

[@Yezpahr]

You should ask them why Polar Bears never eat Penguins. See if they can figure it out.

[@BromideBride]

@@Yezpahr because they can't remove the wrapper. (uk specific humour) lol

[@Skibbityboo0580]

Why is it nutty?

[@iamspencerx]

So did you live across penguins?

[@Bizarreparade]

Talk to me again about young penguins growing up and coming of age in Alaska.

[@ape_on_rhino8467]

Humans ability to look at Antarctica and think "I can make that work," is superpower like no other

[@alison5009]

Just a fixer-upper…

[@andrewbarker8631]

Classic I can fix her lol

[@Archonsx]

Because you literally can, siberia is colder than antarctica.

[@moonasha]

@@Archonsx I think his point was that humans are amazing creatures. Your bringing up of Siberia as if that somehow diminishes that fact is bizarre

[@taxicabnumber1729]

Still a far friendlier place to live than Mars or the Moon.

[@Gguy061]

Did anyone else think Antarctica was full of ants when they were a kid?

[@xanderbroad1434]

Surprised he didn’t dive into the Admiral Byrd story from the 50’s.

[@GeckoDays]

I wonder why he did skip over this……

[@amanbirbthe4th967]

​​@@GeckoDays Probably because he never said anything like this lmfao

[@GeckoDays]

@@amanbirbthe4th967 brushed it off as if freemasonry is a shame & isn’t able to get this sort of control & or knowledge. Kinda crazy , just search up house resolution 33 …..

[@Rob-hh5sd]

Because he wanted to talk about aliens instead of entities.

[@MrDawgnabox]

Yeah, it's not right without Byrd.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

I love the absolute commitment to the “play bird noise after Robert Falcon Scott🦅’s name is said” bit.

[@littleblackcat2273]

Maybe it was in honour of Birdie Bowers, may he rest in peace. 😞

[@Brismo7]

its so annoying.

[@sethskullsberg7787]

Had me cracking up every time he said his name

[@skycryztals]

It literally gave me a headache 10minutes in. Very annoying. Had to stop watching unfortunately, because this is very interesting.

[@darksu6947]

​@@skycryztalsSome people just like to have something to bitch about

[@RLMARMEN]

If Im not correct I think Shackleton and his Endurance crew spent almost two years stranded down there. from when the ship got frozen into the ice and they had to abandon it until they were all rescued from Elephant Island. Shackleton and two others left that island and made it to South Georgia Island, crossed it and arrived at a whaling station. It took them a long time to send out a ship to rescue his men back on Elephant Island who all survied. He didnt lose one crew member which is astounding. The book is a fantastic read.

[@tuffteddy1446]

Antarctica - no gators, snakes, spiders or mosquitoes. Ohhh yeah.

[@emceeboogieboots1608]

But the blood thirsty penguins 😮

[@-Pyewacket]

There are giant sea spiders actually

[@wendigo53]

Didn't you see the 1982 documentary, The Thing?

[@Crypt0fin]

polar bears?

[@tuffteddy1446]

There are no polar bears in Antarctica. 🚫🐻‍❄️

[@tadgodsey]

The falcon cry every time you mention the guys name is priceless. I cracked up every time. Brilliant

[@auberotte1794]

IT IS SO ANNOYING 🤯

[@layfvp]

​@@auberotte1794i couldn't agree more. I had to end the video early.

[@DukeNauticus]

I was at a work related conference in January and we had an actual explorer who's been to Antarctica a few times to try and help map it out, give us a couple hour lecture on teamwork. Lemme tell you, his stories and pictures from his trips were waaaay cooler than any made-up stories about aliens or secret bases. Like, did you know that if you have to take a piss out there, you can't just unzip and do it there and then? You gotta dig a hole in the snow and kneel over it, because it's usually so windy that it just ends up throwing your whiz right back in your face. And yes, our lecturer had picture proof of him making that mistake.

[@LaurentCassaro]

Good one 😂👍

[@bubb-t5e]

lmao just piss downwind

[@psychonaut689]

that's way cooler than secret bases?

[@LaurentCassaro]

@@psychonaut689 Real stories are always cooler than fantasies... unless you're watching a movie.

[@AnneHathawayRules]

​@@bubb-t5e there is no downwind though. The winds are ripping from all directions

[@greggod3646]

First time Watching. Excellent video. The information was stated in a good format that was easy to understand and your mixing in of humor made it very entertaining. Liked and subbed.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

You forgot Admiral Byrd's expedition shooting UFO's, the Abominable Snowman breeding facility and NASA guard towers ! LMAO 🤣

[@BassandoForte]

He just went to the Caribbean for ages and made it all up... 🤣👍

[@flexplodin]

Byrd supposedly had a quote in an Argentinian newspaper. I wonder if he couldn't debunk it.

[@kanders7391]

You forgot the abandoned Nazi research facility.

[@kimwelch4652]

And, don't forget the Shoggoths.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

@@kimwelch4652 Ah, nice reference! A shame Guillermo del Toro couldn't convince Hollywood to put up funding for his At The Mountains Of Madness movie.

[@charlesrobinson4244]

I went to Antarctica on the MS Roald Amundsen! One of my favorite fun facts is that ice core samples from Antarctica were used to help prove that leaded gas was poisoning the entire planet. Jonathan, a glaciologist on board, was part of the British Antarctic Survey team that drilled some of those core samples in the 1970s. If you want to know more, look up Clair Patterson.

[@wendigo53]

Global lead poisoning. Good times!

[@charlespike8574]

...or watch Cosmos season 1, episode 7 "The Clean Room" if you want Neil deGrasse Tyson to tell you about Clair Patterson.

[@wizpsy4051]

Lol

[@hightierplayers2454]

I'm here for the secret alien-FBI hybrid base and penguin mafia.

[@edwardzignot2681]

How would one, theoretically, go about joining this penguin mafia you speak of?

[@nate5eplayer574]

🤫 They’re monitoring this chat. 👀

[@JordanMayjor3p7]

Someone has to keep the ice Nazis in check.

[@Swaggmire215]

U rang??

[@limbo3545]

You better not mess around with the penguin mafia. They hold a whole continent hostange!

[@FootagebyDJI]

The falcon scott sound effect is hilarious 😂

[@quanti5]

Dammit. I was checking my computer and all my sound settings for about 10 minutes before I realized that sound was a joke at Robert's name.

[@anna9072]

I probably would have had the same problem, except that I saw a comment on it before he got to that point.

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

Robert. … Robert Falcon. … Robert Falcon… Scott ‼️ 🫨

[@blockerman3d266]

I thought it was something like a smoke detector chirp the first time.

[@CAHSR2020]

It's like a joke you'd see in in a kindergarten program but coming from an adult and intended for other adults.

[@TheCleginator]

Oh thank god I thought I was having a stroke

[@XanderBudnick]

Gotta do a deep dive on the Shackleton endurance story. Its the greatest of all time. Actually maybe do a full episode on most extreme survival stories!!

[@michaelbest7872]

The title of your video that I've seen come across my choices to view was the reason I didn't click on it until now. Being rather bored looking at the usual stuff I look at, I noticed this video coming up again in my feed. I'm glad I did. You make this information interesting..., by the way you shared it. Your funny yet knowledgeable way is not unique, but it IS refreshing and keeps the viewer watching throughout. You also share your commonsense thoughts in the same way, with your reveal (you remind me of another KZbinr, Sydney Watson). You kept my attention, unlike other people's video's that while they give important information, or share knowledge or news, they do not entertain to keep the viewer's attention throughout. You do. What you shared also made me want to verify or know more about many things you presented. Like, how do we know that Captain Scott died on Antarctica, during his trek back to his ship? Were his crew and his body found later by others? Did he have a journal that was found later? - just my newbie questions I have about the history and such there that you sparked in me, but didn't answer. Thank you for gaining my interest, as I always like to learn more, and thank you for your studies and sharing this with us.

[@azurefog]

Your comedic timing with the ‘falcon’ screech cracked me up.

[@Chalepastel]

SKREEEEEE

[@poolhalljunkie9]

It was impeccable. Loved it.

[@belisarian6429]

Loved it too.

[@davidcatanach2620]

Savages oceans, howling wind, Blood Falls emitting nanospheres next to a gravitational anomaly, ultra high salinity geothermal lakes containing bizarre life forms under kilometres of ice? Sounds like a terrible idea. I’m in!

[@ClaudioDesideriFilms]

The hawk sound every time you said "Falcon" killed me😂

[@Lazarusaffect]

It was funny the first 2 times

[@matthewjohnson7925]

Yeah, it got old real fast. It almost made me stop watching the video before the half-way point.

[@drankydrank1]

Or, it was unreasonably annoying.

[@emitizmo7456]

​@@LazarusaffectThey should've changed it later to Hawk Thew

[@ivytarablair]

Craaacked me up 😂 I love the touches of years-past campy Joe 😊

[@cianoconnell1845]

Where is the rest of Ireland? 14:35

[@thexsoar]

Did I miss the part about why you can't go to Antarctica? Maybe it's over on Nebula.

[@X4Alpha4X]

no one is sitting guard waiting to stop you. if you can afford a charter you could go there. i forget the website but there are public ads for employment there. its just that theres no tourism there because why

[@SidcupRC]

Nebula where you can apparently use copyright material freely? 😅

[@X4Alpha4X]

@@SidcupRC freely? no. Under fair use? yes.

[@sinjin8576]

It's less of a you *CANT* go and more of a you *really shouldn't and it's incredibly unsafe and unless you're a highly trained and equipped professional you'll probably die* type deal.

[@052RC]

@@X4Alpha4X He's a flat earther. He thinks Antarctica is a big ice wall that goes around the earth to keep all the water in. The reason you can't go there is because NASA doesn't want anyone finding out about it.

[@dreed7312]

Awhile back I watched some pyramids on Mars video and on a hunch, pulled up Google maps and started moving north from Albuquerque. It took me all of 2 minutes to find a mountain shaped like a pyramid. Then another, and another.

[@BILLYC0DE]

Some in Giza Egypt too. Lol I get what you're saying...and Occam's razor suggests that you're probably right...but nobodys going there to find out for sure any time soon

[@tmanhuge]

@@BILLYC0DEwhat are you talking about, we have a mars rover

[@beyfenn]

My dad would have loved this video. He went to Antarctica 3 times in the 1970's

[@FarazMazhar]

I just found this channel and it has pretty much become one of my favourite channels. Great content.

[@Teelirious]

Man, realizing you're one of Shackleton's sled dogs must be terrifying.

[@Luci-rv1hl]

Yeah I feel like they went back to Antarctica just to eat dog.

[@left4twenty]

"Wow, the sleds have gotten real light lately, what a good day to be a sled dog" the dog thought

[@belisarian6429]

Shackleton: Hmm last time we run out of food.....we need more dogs this time.

[@Whatmobiledeal]

The discovery ship is permanently docked in Dundee, my hometown. Have been aboard it a few times as there is a discovery museum.

[@markcarey67]

Reasons why you can't go Antarctica: A) you will freeze your balls off and die B) You will disturb the penguins that are hunting for neutrinos.

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

so, only ben shapiro can survive in antarctica?

[@punkrockmonsters2660]

​@@AsifKhan-hf9zy only Ben, nobody else. He is the chosen one of scientism

[@soulbot119]

what if you don't have balls to freeze off? reduce risk to your balls by not having any to begin with [taps temple]

[@catalyst429]

Also it's where all the transformers hang out and we aren't supposed to be homies 😢

[@chinossynthesizer705]

Buy an astronaut suit from nasa

[@ScatterbrainFilms-k8o]

“Things don’t look normal because they’re not normal.” Damn dude. You are so insightful!!!

[@NotTheWheel]

This guy literally edited in a Falcon call everytime he mentioned the word "Falcon" - Much respect good sir!

[@alanhyland5697]

And when did Falcon (skreee) stop being used as a name?

[@NotTheWheel]

@@alanhyland5697 It keeps happening!!! lol

[@Shane_Blaq]

Literally made my day

[@brandonwirtz2308]

LOL! I found your comment RIGHT as he got to that part of the video, and the "call" was sounding.

[@speak313]

The long pause before the skreeee when he says he died 😂

[@Bladeoceanic]

I wish airships were still a thing. Imagine how cool it would be to take an airship cruise over Antarctica.

[@robertgibson2798]

I think people have wanted to do this but where stopped. It's curious no one's ever circumnavigted the Earth from North to South.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

I'm no expert, but wouldn't the very cold air have an effect on the airship's buoyancy? Also, what about high winds?

[@PeterBakker]

Yeah, going 80 knots per hour😅

[@Rosskles]

Yeah, not with some of the strongest winds and coldest temps on the planet 😂

[@tanepukenga1421]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc No, just on the volume with the helium ones they use now. That's probably why they use semi-ridged designs now. Interestingly enough, there's only 4 left in the world and only 1 in active service anywhere. As for wind, that depends on how high you are.

[@AA_21861]

One of my favourite Antarctica theories is that an ancient river that once flowed through the continent may continue to flow in India today (the Mahanadi river). This is from when Antarctica and India were joined together in Gondwanaland. India now has a research station in Antarctica that is trying to learn more about the Mahanadi river from back then.

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

Great… so theyre going to turn antartica into a sewage filled hellhole

[@Skiller7777]

Looks like Joe has explored the whole Antarctica and now he knows everything about it, we appreciate smart guys like you Joe…

[@fullcustomization]

almost 30 minutes, and didn't hear any reasons someone couldn't go to Antarctica... Huh.

[@Ratbait9]

Good point, Could be a click bait title. But he had some good info.

[@fullcustomization]

@@Ratbait9 yeah, I think, 'things you didn't know about Antarctica' would have been a bit better title.

[@UnlawfulVR]

Thanks I look for comments like those before pressing play. I owe you 30 mins od my life

[@GinoNL]

Thanks for this so I can leave again. Always punish clickbait.

[@artivan111]

😅

[@michaeljames5936]

Shackleton was Irish, born not ten miles from where I sit in Co. Kildare. Tom Crean who saved his crew, another Irishman, from Cork. (It was also an Irishwoman, who suggested to Hitler, that he narrow his moustache a little, she was married to his brother, Kevin Hitler (Not his real first name), as she later spoke of it, 'Like in many things, Mr Hitler, carried it too far."

[@galaxyanimal]

The toothbrush mustache was a WWI thing, as a full mustache would interfere with gas masks' fit.

[@fromagefrizzbizz9377]

H'm. Paula Hitler was the only full sibling of Adolf to make it to adulthood (5 died in infancy or shortly thereafter) and she lived til 1960. Alois Jr (Adolf's half brother) made it to 1956.

[@Hydrahandle7]

​@@fromagefrizzbizz9377 No don't know anything.. Most lived in to the 70's in Argentina and Canada

[@fromagefrizzbizz9377]

@@Hydrahandle7 Sorry, those tales are in another channel called batshit crazy talk.

[@ScottMichaels-hg3fc]

If someone will make an unauthorized biography of Kevin Hitler, I will watch it