The Logistics of Living in Antarctica
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- Published: 06 March 2018
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So only researchers lives there? We need a ski resort built there 🤔🤔🏃♀️🏃♀️🙄🤫🤫🤫🤐🤐
ok seriously please stop with the brilliant thing, it costs money and that is not good enough for me, but on the good side, good video I enjoyed it
Will look like shit in a few decades, thanks to morons like trump and all those turds.
10:11 Correction: no link to the _inside_ world. 🤔👍😎
Antarctica doesnt care who recognizes it as whatever, in my opinion no one should own the earth, it is all ours... one day that will be reality, but people are still too closedminded for such a mindset...
Useful information:)
Is this channel named wendover because the guys behind it like to bend over to do something naughty? What a lame ass name. Lol!
That's a good one.
https://blog.naver.com/7heppy7
Sheet of ice
In another 5 decades Humans will be fighting each other over an inch of land in Antarctica.
China will destroy it if we let them...
Does anyone know what type of aircraft is shown at 5:50 in the video? Thanks!
I think I just answered my own question. It looks like a Boeing C-17 Globemaster aircraft which is primarily used to carry large cargo and sometimes troops.
what about all Argentine bases?... And Ushuaia port as hub? .. and Marambio Base airfield?
I saw a video where US Service members who landed on a fresh water lake in the middle of Antartica. It was during operation high jump.
Great video!
Hmmm, do research people have sex among themselves since they are alone for 10 months?
I should go claim that section that's unclaimed.
I declare the claim.
the dry land under Antarctica is Atlantis
WHY LIVE ON ICE JUST GO TO RUSSIA LOLGEIIYYYLOL
Excellent narration and video editing. Thanks for your great educational work.
Pretty gay
Don't tell Trump about the Antarctic treaty or he'll probably cancel it and turn Antarctica over to the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and Syrians.
Wendover? what about Bendover...
_Good Stuff!_ +
_P.S.: McMurdo Station is like a spaceport on Tatooine. The most crazy scientists from around the world gather there, drink beer, whiskey and discuss where to get more alcohol!_
I was at McMurdro Station (at the time 2:51 in the video) on two separate deployments (2018 Summer, 2019 Winter) for 7 month increments flying in on the Air Force C-17 from Christ Church, New Zealand. We had 115 people during the Winter and 600 during Summer) . Most memorable time of my life! Seeing all of the "Southern Lights" (auroras) which are predominately bright green is absolutely breath-taking. Also, at 4:44 Pegasus Air-Field is no longer used (same with Willy Air Field) - we now use Phoenix Airfield which is about 5 minutes away from Pegasus (like the video says)
The vampire lives there.
#FREEANTARTICA🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶
The real question is why 97? And not 100
Just wait till Amazon starts moves it services into Antarctica! LOL!
Geopolitical important not scientific research haha 😂 all lies 🤥 are in the surface don't lie 🤥
LOL It is Elite Controlled You need USA Military Approval to go if you live in Western countries
95 miles, and it takes 40 days! imagine going just over 2 miles a day on that road... wtf. i feel like this has to be a mistake... no way it's that slow
bn peters i wasn’t saying it ISN’T slow, i was just saying how it isn’t a mistake. Half the speed of a sloth is slow
@Stanton Clark If they go 2 miles every 24 hours (0.083 mph), that's about half the speed of a sloth.
bn peters it would carrying hundred or thousands of tonnes of supplies and the engine must be weaker to reduce costs
I mean Antarctica has a lot of light pollution in summer
@ 2:30 that is totally a Star Destroyer covered in ice
5:38 Is a fake picture. Obvious. Nice try though. This is all bullshit.
Nobody:
Wendover: Brilliant is probably the best way to learn this.
It is crazy to think someone long ago, may have mapped the coastline of the land correctly.
He talking like they living off the land there 🤣🤣🤣
OK. Only a 12 minute video, but that is no excuse for all the factual errors.
10:44 not as isolated as I.
It's the edge of the planet which is why you can only go so far.
I think it’s deeply ironic that for an area banning a military presence relies almost entirely on military transport. The U.S. Navy and Air Force have dedicated ships and aircraft specifically used to ferry people to Antarctica.
please use the metric system what the fuck is a farenheit? water freezes at 0 is so much more logical and a system based on a constant 10 is so much more afficient easy and reliable plz america you are the only one. we learned your language plz learn our metric system
@jaca van heesch scientist that work within the states seem to mostly use American Standard.. they also use Latin. Do you know what a Canis lupus familiaris is?.. I prefer German Shepherd... doctors and drug dealers use metric when dealing with less than an eighth of an oz.. grams and milliliters. As soon as it gets to 3.5 grams its an eighth of an ounce (8 ball)..lol!.. mechanics use 2 tool sets- metric and standard.. metric to work on foreign cars... all joking aside metric does make more sense in most cases.. what it needs is something in between a centimeter and a meter.. saying someone is 6ft tall sounds better than 2 yards or 1.83 meters or 182.9 centimeters..or 72 inches.. my grandfather said that in the 70s they made a major national effort in all the school systems to convert to metric but it just did not work... well, that's all I have to say. Peace
T OB doesnt your whole scientific comunity use the metric system becouse it is easier? also what language am i speaking with you right now? i whould rather speak my own but we all have to make concessions when it comes to making systems function better and integrating some parts of the world. plz look up metric and imperial comparison to see how confusing your system realy is.
If you notice we do what we want to do in the United States and we get away with it.. we don't like the metric system. The only thing we use it for is to measure some drugs like cocaine and marijuana and then not completely..
I'll go
I bet the movie "The Thing" is always on base.....
I miss working on the C-17s that we’re getting ready to go or we’re returning from the Deep Freeze mission to McMurdo. Many of my friends were lucky enough to go, but not so lucky myself. Also, very grateful for the Aeromedical Evacuation teams that are always ready to risk life to save someone in need of emergency medical evacuations out of Antarctica.
hmph no wonder australia claimed that land so many
remember that australians robbed native aborigins in there and even they dont admit it
a continent robber,
that what i called greedy whites.....
oh forgot to mention that a whites from aussie bring guns and did mass shooting in new zealand,
September 23rd 1991 to October 17th 1992. It is the most inhospitable, beautiful and unusual places I was blessed to get paid(unhandsomly) to go to. Unfortunately I was to young (18-19 ) to know how special it was. If you plan on going be prepared for the variety of personalities.
Top of my list!!! Such a paradise even though it being soooooooooooooo harsh!!!! Omg what a TRIP!!!!!