This Is Why You Can’t Go To Antarctica
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Antarctica is the last truly untamed land on the planet. It’s a bizarre, otherworldly place buried under miles of ice, with a lot of mysteries and secrets that have come to the surface over the years. So today we’re going to talk about all the strange and unusual stories that swirl around the land of the south pole.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
4:12 - The Tragedies
9:26 - Desolate Landscape
13:16 - The Gravity Anomaly
16:26 - Monsters And Aliens
24:00 - Scientific Research
27:00 - Sponsor - Nebula - Věda a technologie
"Antarctica... Come for the cold... stay because you're frozen solid." (Antarctica Chamber Of Commerce)
"Antarctica: Because who needs feeling in their toes anyway?"
Penguin noises: Penguin noises
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@@CosmicCells Or noses. Who needs noses when you can't smell anymore. 🙂
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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
That's amazing dude! Best of luck to you!
Godspeed and fairweather
Best of luck to ya, and keep an eye out for the Thing!
Good luck!
Amazing!!! I hope you come back and edit your comment to how well your doing Antartica.
I always thought I couldn't go to Antarctica because I don't own a North Face jacket.
i have one. i still cant go.
@@AyayronBalakay Sure you can go, just book a flight...
@@Carlito84Qc no i mean because im busy
@@AyayronBalakay Yeah, you need a South Face jacket.
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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.
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."
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...
Probably red bacteria commonly found in snow
Lovecraft had to invent an unimaginably huge mountain range and weird aliens to make a scary Antarctic expedition, meanwhile the real Antarctica bleeds.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The walls of the 54th Precinct are _bleeding_."
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.
Nimrod was a noble god of hunting before Americans misunderstood Bugs Bunny's joke about Elmer Fudd.
Nimrod was a hunter described in the Bible, not a god
@@salsamancer He inherited the actual clothes given to Adam and Eve which gave him strength as a hunter/warrior.
Book of Jasher.
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.
@@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.
Richard E. Byrd went there several times between 1928 - 1956. Yet, not a single word about his expeditions.
Because Falcon is a cooler name than Byrd. I guess.
You might want to do a bit of research before posting a comment as there are books of his flights that are available.
You obviously haven't watched his TV interview about it then?
@@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.
@@nominou6how convenient for you or your lack of awareness.. gotta control that narrative I suppose.
If Antarctica has been covered in ice for 15 million years, then how did the Piri reis map that depicts the shoreline so accurately come to be?
Just coincidence bro.
For that reason no one is permitted to pass through Antartica, the treaty, the military intervention. We shouldn't believe everything that official "science" tells us, it's adoctrination, there's politics, power, and they don't want us to know real history and the real world, up and down.
@@prot07ype87ah you must be one of those everything is real people...
If you stretch out the Piri Reis map shoreline, it matches the shoreline of South America. They just slapped Antarctica on the map and used a known shoreline. It was pure conjecture that land was there.
Haven't you read Erich von Daniken? It's possible the Piri Reis map was made with lost knowledge from Aliens! 😁
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.
He got all his boys home though right?
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".
Shackleton was a legend!
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".
It genuinely sounds like one of the most terrifying events probably ever experienced by any small group of people. Ever.
Shackleton: I'm recruiting some Dogs for another Antarctic expedition.
Dogs: 👀
"My uncle Spot went on the last expedition. What happened to him?"
I'm getting hungry
Yo dawg, wass happenin?
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"I'm putting together a team"
Just a fun fact:Today is Sunday, June 23rd 2024 and on this day in 1961, the Antarctic Treaty was enacted.
Antarctica lore is so tasty
High jump, blood falls, ancient pyramids, hollow earth it’s all way better than most lore people make nowadays
"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
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.
Well said. History still lives in Antarctica.
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.
@@wrightmf Amundsen's book is fantastic - I've read all the others and his is the only really enjoyable adventure.
Would be a good movie
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
Dude was flexing hard on Scott.
Probably traveling on to the Iron Republic.
@@kosmosXcannon In my experience, Norwegians are a boisterous and prideful lot - it's well earned no doubt.
There was also a human turd in a jar, or would have been had I been a member of Amundsen's expedition.
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! 💪 👹
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.
Global lead poisoning. Good times!
...or watch Cosmos season 1, episode 7 "The Clean Room" if you want Neil deGrasse Tyson to tell you about Clair Patterson.
An Aphex Twin and a black metal joke in the same video? Highly approve.
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"Deep Lake" - named by the same linguistic equilibrists that gave us The Rocky Mountains, The Big Blue River and The Great Sandy Desert.
We should consider leaving 15 million year ecosystem alone eh?
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"
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@@OLDMANTEANo. We should explore it.
@@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
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.
See, it’s not your fault after all. The PLANET doesn’t want you to go.
Thanks Obama
I can't go because I'm broke and a felon and jewish. 3 things that you never see together
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@JoshuaBortnick
I guess a very rare combination, but why would the last two impede your Antarctic dreams?
A moment of silence for Robert Falcon Scott………/falcon scream.
The hawk sound every time you said "Falcon" killed me😂
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.
Amundsen
Why. for cannibalizing on other's work? That's called plagiarism. AdmundseonereothjALIKGHJ/ASDLGDKJs? Is that how you spell that name? Get over it, dude. Who the heck cares.
@@Joshuatree7746 are you okay?
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.
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!
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.
You're not allowed to go there I'm the only one allowed to go there and I'm going next weekend
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
@@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 :)
I believe whatever Richard E. Byrd found is why we can't go there!
Lesson: focus on the goal and travel as light as possible.
Kurt Russel made a documentary about his trip to Antarctica in the 80's.
That was John Carpenter. Kurt Russel was just in it.
Documentary?!? 😂😂
This is one under-rated comment right here.
@@Just_SaraI was about to go search for the documentary until my wife laughed at me.
😳🫣😳.....oh,the flashbacks....i was twelve and had ZERO reference to horror as a religious country farm kid.Absolutely scarred me for YEARS!!😂😂😂
Shacklton is the MVP of making sure his people make it back what a champ
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!
I read or heard somewhere that it wasn't Shackleton, but some New Zealand fella that lead the way. Don't quote me.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
They always show that mountain when they talk about pyramids. But it’s the wrong mountain.
My father lived and worked in Antartica during the 1980’s for the Australian Antarctic Division at Mawson base located at Holme Bay. He was a combat engineer during the Vietnam War so he was doing construction work, and said the base was for climatic and environmental research… but he would say that as a government shill and really he was there to man the ice wall and stop flat earthers from discovering the truth. 😂
Loved your video! And a warm.........-27 degrees Fahrenheit welcome from McMurdo Station Antarctica. The winter over crew says hello! 😊👍
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.
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.
@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. 🤷♀️
You people are on the frontiers of human habitation in extreme environments, technically further away from civilization than the ISS crew. I salute you
@@RealBradMiller❤that's perfect. Had me imagining all sorts
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.
That’s incredible they survived covering that distance
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 ...
Aktchooallee...
Yea it was a good show. A little slow though
And then the survivors got sent to the western front and killed.
Your content is so good I actually watch the promos you do. I can’t think of another channel I’ve ever done that for lol. But I’m gonna check out Nebula, thanks.
The falcon sound played every time you mention Scott's name is perfect. Loud enough to be heard and funny, but not loud enough to be distracting or annoying. Well done!
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.
Nah, I think it's just that your cat can speak glacier and knows what is being said about us...
*FloatingSpark* -- Your cats are related to 'Sea-Leopards' ---- obviously
Guess that means it's time to educate your felines about Aphex Twin
@@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!
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. 😂
Antarctica is the place where you want to get away from it all... kinda.
I feel like you've left some words out from your comment, it took me a couple of attempts 😂
And never come back.
Just like Kokomo 😅
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.
Is it me or does this man look like Captain Sig Hansen has a clone.
Oh man! You just destroyed all my fantasies about Antarctica. Now there is no reason to go there any more.
The bird noise made me think of Firiona Vie in Everquest 😂. Great video, thanks!
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.
Lake Vostok is not buried under "nearly a mile of ice", it's buried under 4km (2.5 miles) of ice.
wild
A shitload of ice. More ice than I can use in my color. Way too much ice. Got it.
meh.
2.5 is nearly 1
@@whimsythecrypto-hippy-wolf1900 Yes, on a grand scale 2.5 is very nearly 1. - Big Brain Brad
I chuckled at the "ice wall" thing at the start. Exactly where my mind went 😂
I like how you presented a gravity anomaly as a difference in gravity big enough to be detected by human senses.
Did someone say Falcon? *skreeee*
To the time machiiiiinnnneeeee!
Lol
I thought something was up with my iPad at first 😂😂😂
@i_am_kendon absolute best snl sketch. Idk what else you'd be referencing with that lol
Try right here. 😂 6:15
You didn’t mention Admiral Byrd’s expeditions following WW2
Can't have the people know what happened during those expeditions...
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.
You missed Admiral Bird.
… and have his personal diary read
Some people believe everything they hear on the internet...
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Came across this video purely by accident.... you, Sir, have another subscriber. Well done.
*Quite literally everything claimed by television is accepted exclusively on faith.* I quit watching broadcast television 15 years ago for that reason and many others of great significance.
*Nothing claimed in these types of videos are of any legitimate substance; it's just parroting the claims available to all of us and supplied by the very people most of us don't trust in the first place.* It's such a dire situation where for some subjects everyone is conditioned to take it all as fact on faith.
You sound like a flatearther
@@LaurentCassaro my formal education is in the most difficult field of science that exists lol. I have no doubt that's far beyond the video author's own as well as yours.
*Good luck with your religion television and the strangers on it you worship called celebrities.*
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
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?
@@BTinSF OC says Christchurch in post.
@@BTinSF It's called the International Antarctic Centre. It is near the airport, and is quite expensive.
@@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.
@@BTinSFIt’s literally right next to the CDC where you deploy to McMurdo.
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.
Carbon date it then, I mean ffs, do I have to think of everything?
@@nigelbenn4642 LMAO
@@nigelbenn4642They have. I just did a quick Google...interesting (and creepy) mummies of different ages.
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom There's your answer then.
@@nigelbenn4642 carbon dating is about as good as random guess
Took me a little minute to notice the Falcon noise every time Rob F Scott's name was mentioned and wasnt simply a part of the background music.
Nicely done. Couldnt stop hearing it soon after.😂
First time tuning in. I like the few bits of humor you throw in there. Right when I started to tune in you had me laugh, and i stayed tuned in. That earned a subscribe. I just told my daughters last night "If you can't explain something in 15 minutes you don't know what you are talking about" while I think it's true, it really because I am too busy and running out of time. 15 minutes means a lot when you don't have much time left.
This guy literally edited in a Falcon call everytime he mentioned the word "Falcon" - Much respect good sir!
And when did Falcon (skreee) stop being used as a name?
@@alanhyland5697 It keeps happening!!!
lol
Literally made my day
LOL! I found your comment RIGHT as he got to that part of the video, and the "call" was sounding.
The long pause before the skreeee when he says he died 😂
I love the absolute commitment to the “play bird noise after Robert Falcon Scott🦅’s name is said” bit.
Maybe it was in honour of Birdie Bowers, may he rest in peace. 😞
its so annoying.
Had me cracking up every time he said his name
It literally gave me a headache 10minutes in. Very annoying. Had to stop watching unfortunately, because this is very interesting.
@@skycryztalsSome people just like to have something to bitch about
Don’t believe your eyes. If it looks like a pyramid believe what you’re told. It’s a mountain lol
I clicked, not expecting much, but this turned out to be one of the most interesting videos I've seen in a while. Subscribed, my friend. I look forward to exploring your channel.
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. 🤘😎
Antarctica literally is greek for without bears
Penguins are predators
They prey on fish
Grizzly bears right
So, to clarify, you grew up in Alaska but haven't been to Antarctica?
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.
Humans ability to look at Antarctica and think "I can make that work," is superpower like no other
Just a fixer-upper…
Classic I can fix her lol
Because you literally can, siberia is colder than antarctica.
@@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
Still a far friendlier place to live than Mars or the Moon.
I've been telling people for years that don't you think it's odd that Not one country or people or nobody is trying to take over that whole spot. So strange.
It's so oddly strange, to be 69 and learning EVERYTHING over again. I really hate to be lied to, as a child especially...
Did someone teach you that the Earth was flat?
Lake Vostok "completely isolated from the rest of the world for 15 million years."
Probably still rife with microplastics though.
Haha!
And PFAS!
sadly we are indeed finding microplastic contamination has seeped into even historical digsights
Microplastics are stored in the balls
@@FleshWizard69420 Yep. It's just a matter of time before humankind is just a load , , of barbies and Kens.
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.
Aawwww 😢
What a waste of good seals, a good clubbing session is a great team bonding day out.
I used to have Order of the Black Eagle on VHS. Amazing movie reference, Joe.
The only "conspiracy" I belive is that ancient humans have been around a long time and were very advanced like medieval tech... so I'm kinda excited about the possibility of pyramids
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.
"Qualified success" is my favorite kind of success.
What did they discover?
@@Dularr This : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgica_antarctica
@@tilleul6917 wiki 🤣
Belgium is a rumor, best don't spread it.
When you choose a sled dog for Antarctica, you're not just choosing a good work hound. You're choosing spare meal
Just avoid the liver.
sir - the amount of times I laughed in this video is crazy. love your delivery and editing (totally wish you were my science or history teacher back in the day)! New Subbie here
Was not expecting discussion of 46-B, I love that story.
Man, realizing you're one of Shackleton's sled dogs must be terrifying.
Yeah I feel like they went back to Antarctica just to eat dog.
"Wow, the sleds have gotten real light lately, what a good day to be a sled dog" the dog thought
Shackleton: Hmm last time we run out of food.....we need more dogs this time.
You forgot Admiral Byrd's expedition shooting UFO's, the Abominable Snowman breeding facility and NASA guard towers ! LMAO 🤣
He just went to the Caribbean for ages and made it all up... 🤣👍
Byrd supposedly had a quote in an Argentinian newspaper. I wonder if he couldn't debunk it.
You forgot the abandoned Nazi research facility.
And, don't forget the Shoggoths.
@@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.
By around the 10th time if hearing the falcon sound I was laughing so hard I couldn't concentrate on the topic anymore 😂
Just got the annual plan, I've been tired of youtube too so I took the leap. It's really a good deal as you said
I wish airships were still a thing. Imagine how cool it would be to take an airship cruise over Antarctica.
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.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't the very cold air have an effect on the airship's buoyancy? Also, what about high winds?
Yeah, going 80 knots per hour😅
Yeah, not with some of the strongest winds and coldest temps on the planet 😂
@@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.
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.
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
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
Thank you for clarifying the gold info. 12 of 100 viewers were already planning trips to get rich!
'My salty gold all melted!'
Well shit, what am I going to do with that ship I chartered?!
Australia: I have the weirdest plants and animals.
Antarctic: Hold my frozen beer.
Answers with Joe intro into Antarctica is smooth as ice! So cool Joe! Slick!
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.
Ice freezing top down insulation the water below. Had water froze dense like literally everything else we'd not be here
Antarctica - no gators, snakes, spiders or mosquitoes. Ohhh yeah.
But the blood thirsty penguins 😮
There are giant sea spiders actually
Didn't you see the 1982 documentary, The Thing?
polar bears?
There are no polar bears in Antarctica. 🚫🐻❄️
That sound effect has me laughing harder every time it happens 🤣👌
"Dude, there's this place that's, like, so cold that you'll die."
"Heh, I wanna go there."
Really impressed with the commitment to consistency with the Falcon screech every time Robert Falcon Scott's name is called. Chef's kiss.
Really impressed you took the time to describe the joke with unnecessary detail. Forehead kiss.
There's a really good story about Deception Island.
I'm from Alaska. The amount of people who asked me about penguins growing up is pretty nutty
You should ask them why Polar Bears never eat Penguins. See if they can figure it out.
@@Yezpahr because they can't remove the wrapper. (uk specific humour) lol
Why is it nutty?
So did you live across penguins?
Talk to me again about young penguins growing up and coming of age in Alaska.
hearing Falcon sound whenever he mentions Robert Falcon Scott 😂
Ah yes, the most monotonously icy place on Earth is repeatedly declared icesolated.
I am unreasonably pleased by this.
"Here be dragons"
I've always loved that line
Just allow archeologists to dig under the ice of antarctica without cencoreship ... You will be suprised by what they uncover ...
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.
I probably would have had the same problem, except that I saw a comment on it before he got to that point.
Robert.
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Robert Falcon.
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Robert Falcon… Scott
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I thought it was something like a smoke detector chirp the first time.
It's like a joke you'd see in in a kindergarten program but coming from an adult and intended for other adults.
Oh thank god I thought I was having a stroke
"Singing dunes" are actually surprisingly common in desert areas, although it's usually the sand that's "singing".
"What are dunes made of?"
"Sand."
This comment is the definition of "pedantry".
My head picked up so fast when I heard you say Poughkeepsie Civic Center. I'm less than 20 minutes from it!!
How do we not know more about such a massive place.
Your comedic timing with the ‘falcon’ screech cracked me up.
SKREEEEEE
It was impeccable. Loved it.
Loved it too.
The falcon cry every time you mention the guys name is priceless. I cracked up every time. Brilliant
IT IS SO ANNOYING 🤯
@@auberotte1794i couldn't agree more. I had to end the video early.
Joe: "Well, here comes the wet blanket."
Ad: "Honda."
I am hereby forever going to whistle whenever anyone mentions, Robert Falcon Scott. Thank you.
I'm here for the secret alien-FBI hybrid base and penguin mafia.
How would one, theoretically, go about joining this penguin mafia you speak of?
🤫 They’re monitoring this chat. 👀
Someone has to keep the ice Nazis in check.
U rang??
You better not mess around with the penguin mafia. They hold a whole continent hostange!
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.
I have a family member in the National Guard who flies to Antarctica multiple times a year. He has some cool stories.
I'm sure you were amazing, but how was Antarctica? 😝
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.
This is my first video. Im liking the straight forward delivery, no bs no sensationalism to suggest to non existent evidence. You could use a little background siund/music/foley tho.
Thanks Joe Scott
If there's one thing you can say about Antarctica, there's no bears there. Now, the Arctic? Bears.
The most astonishing fact I learned in sixth grade is that Antarctica is a desert.
True. It’s because precipitation amounts are very low. The reason there’s all that snow and ice, is because when it does snow over the years, it doesn’t melt.
There are areas near the edge where precipitation is abundant, the temperatures get above freezing quite often in the summer so snow melts then replenishes.
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 :)
Was there on a calm day with only 50-70 mph winds.
Been there in the summer. Calm winds.
Imagine being an ancient person who somehow wound up in Antarctica and saw a waterfall of blood. You'd think you'd found yourself in Hell.
How very interesting Admiral Byrd's mission to Antarctica in 1946 called Operation Highjump is not mentioned. At the time, the largest Naval mission in US history and no mention of it by Joe. According to some of the men who came back they were attacked and men were killed and ships were sunk. Even Admiral Byrd, who at the time was the most decorated Naval officer in the US military, came back a different man and he said some very interesting things. There is another very interesting story that Joe didn't mention. A more recent incident involving a team of scientists from McMurdo that went missing only to show up a week later and were themselves very reluctant to talk about what happened to them. The military personal who were responsible for recovering and flying them back to base even said something traumatic happened to them or they witnessed something traumatic. Oh yeah, what about Buzz Aldrin's tweet he sent out after going down there that said there is evil in Antarctica. Hmmm. Quite a bit Joe missed.
If every direction away from the South Pole is northerly, where the hell is "East" Antarctica.
🤔 Take 1 step east of the Prime Meridian (start in Greenwich, England, not that village in New York) and walk south.. keep going.. you will probably need a boat for much of the journey unless you're a strong swimmer.. bring many changes of clothes as the weather will vary..
When you get to a whole bunch of ice and snow with lotsa birds walking around in tuxedos, it will be on your left.. 👍😉😁
With only north/south poles, where even is "east," then?? 😮
@@justinbremer2281 east of prime meridian
On the right
@@michaelfritts6249 But if you keep going East you end up coming back from the West
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.
There were thriving civilizations on Antartica before the earth's magnetic poles shifted causing it to freeze over.
@@jew_world_order Proof?