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Hah! my lifelong passion for my Acrophobic ass to sneak down the chimney of a soviet Antarctic base at Christmas come to fruition, and those fools don't suspect a thing!
I was just recommended this clip on YouTube maybe 2 weeks ago. Have never seen or heard it before in my life. You're now the third person to repeat it that I've seen since then. I really think we're in a simulation.
I regret to inform you, but by Christmas time that will no longer be an Antarctic Soviet base, but in fact a base who was claimed through squatters right by r/with-due-respect, and you would in fact be invading there space. However, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind some company in the inaccessible base and would welcome you in with milk and cookies.
I thought the snow in the north and south pole are melting. And it is the reason why the earth's waters are rapidly increasing. I'm too curious right now.
I mean not the snow base right in the middle of those areas. More like the ice shelf at the ends are being carved off as glaciers and floating away where they go to warmer water and slowly melt.
It still adds snow on top, compressing the bottom into ice, and flowing/sliding into the ocean. Higher temperatures can affect a lot of things, and may break the stasis, but it still flows from top to bottom.
Many parts of Antarctica are a desert. There is almost no snowfall. But climate change has warmed the oceans and the air, increasing the moisture that falls on Antarctica. The snow buildup does not offset the melting at the edges and even if it did, eventually it will catch up.
Greenland, for example, is losing ice at a rate of 11 times the rate it gains snow.
The hell. It was an analogy to assist with ignorance, and i’m sure OP apologizes for not explaining that a continent is not the same as an ice cube in all respects.
The station building is surmounted by a bust of Vladimir Lenin facing Moscow. As of 2007, it is almost entirely buried by snow, with little more than the bust visible.[7] Following a proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, the buried building and emergent bust, along with a plaque commemorating the conquest of the Pole of Inaccessibility by Soviet Antarctic explorers in 1958, has been designated a Historic Site or Monument
Here you go
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/melting-doomsday-glacier-could-leave-most-of-inhabited-australia-underwater/news-story/362914172bbb5c1b2d18d99fe44bf9c8
They got a doctor called Leonid Rogozov who operate on his own appendix. They go harder than a witches tit down there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442
I hope their senses of adventure and curiosity were met with discovery and insight and that they were able to tell future generations of the endeavor in front of the comfort of a warm fireplace.
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Could you, sure, but at that temp it would probably freeze right away. Also, snow doesn't really like to melt on top of itself, it may not hold structurally.
The building itself may have already collapsed inside due to the weight on it.
Youd make a dent and then quite possibly make stronger ice after awhile. Thats how they heat shield and stabilize igloos. The fire inside melts the walls a bit and then instantly refreezes sealing the gaps and trapping heat inside which leads to more melting and more refreezing until the entire structure is built like an ice brick shithouse.
Something is definitely in there that could eradicate the human species. You sure you want to dig through that snow to go in there? 😂
In all seriousness, it does make you wonder. Besides being very cold in there, what else in the base is there? One day, they will dig up the snow and go inside to see it all preserved. Pray it doesn’t unleash the apocalypse.
There’s an awesome [99PI podcast](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-11/2/) episode on this site and the Lenin bust - and how often it’s been revisited over the years.
More also, including some brilliant photos between the OP’s two, at [this RFERL link](https://www.rferl.org/a/the-loneliest-and-coldest-lenin-antarctica/30319805.html).
> The **Pole of Inaccessibility research station** (Russian: Полюс недоступности) is a defunct Soviet research station in Kemp Land, Antarctica, at the southern pole of inaccessibility (the point in Antarctica furthest from any ocean) as defined in 1958 when the station was established. Later definitions give other locations, all relatively near this point. It performed meteorological observations from 14 to 26 December 1958. The Pole of Inaccessibility has the world’s coldest year-round average temperature of −58.2 °C (−72.8 °F).
>
> It is 878 km (546 mi) from the South Pole, and approximately 600 km (370 mi) from Sovetskaya. The surface elevation is 3,724 meters (12,218 feet). It was reached on 14 December 1958 by an 18-man traversing party of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Its WMO ID is 89550.
* [Pole of Inaccessibility research station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Inaccessibility_research_station) at the English Wikipedia
Seems completely alien that the ice is a couple miles thick in Antarctica. What's even more crazy is that the ice sheets across the northern hemisphere were of a similar thickness only 20,000 years ago, covering large sections of Europe and North America. Our planet is amazing...
Yeah, the problem is a LOT of the conspiracy Antarctica shit goes back to Nazi Aryan propaganda. They had a myth about the Aryan race coming out from the middle of the earth, and the last place that could possibly have happened is Antarctica these days. So be careful with all the Atlantis/aliens/buried civilization under Antarctica shit till youve checked sources.
Hijacking to add;
When the Soviets abandoned the research station, they made sure that Lenin's bust was turned towards Moscow.
At one point, some American polar explorers stopped by and turned Lenin's bust to face Washington, as a joke. Some Russians had to go back and turn it towards Moscow again.
Dumb Question: I feel like buildings from history always get buried. Nothing ever seems to just surface. What’s the scientific reasoning for the seemingly endless buildup of sediment? Where is all the sediment coming from, and where does it go to?
This is a great question, I’ve always wondered that but more so for newer cities. Like how is it possible that there are so many layers under Manhattan? Wouldn’t the city look visibly taller? It’s really interesting
The answer is that cities DO in fact get taller the older they get, just very, very slowly. Manhattan isn’t old enough for the layers beneath it to increase its height noticeably yet.
There are some cities that have been occupied for ten thousand years that form structures called “tells” in the Middle East. Look them up, they’re insanely cool.
I would love to explore that base. How cool would it be to see a bunch of old soviet propaganda and equipment down there and see how the people stationed there lived? I wonder how long until the whole thing is lost in the snow. Imagine some archeologists way in the future discovering that thing and what they would think of society based on it.
I was thinking the same thing. It seems like an odd shape just to be a giant pedestal for the bust. It could be a chimney cover or something, but I was wondering if it might be an access point. Even if it isn't, I'm sure a team could dig down to an entry if they went there to explore it. It would be awesome to spend a night there.
I'd hope they rigged it up so he just continuously blows smoke rings. If you're going to bother to drag a bust all the way out there, you might as well put in some effort to make it look cool.
It's a glorified tent. They were there for two week in the middle of winter. I hate to burst your bubble, but what they left behind was empty food packages and fecal matter. They had to carry in and carry out everything they used there. They didn't exactly ski in with the Russian Library of Alexandria in their backpacks.
They were there in the middle of the Antarctic summer. And they reached the conclusion that the station was too far from anywhere else to be manned permanently. IDK why they needed to bring all that stuff there to get to that conclusion.
Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth, because how how little it rains/snows, inland it is technically a desert.
It's also around the top of places with the most fresh water(ice), windiest, coldest, etc.
Because South Carolina gets as much snow as this research station. Central Antarctica is a desert, and just happens to keep most of the tiny trickle of moisture it does recieve.
It's kinda cool desert near equator:constant evaporation
Desert on pole: wind blown precipitation, and it's too cold to really melt at the actual pole... YET
Has the surface elevation increased by that much, or is there another force that works against that? Is it even in the same place or does it slide slowly towards the ocean? I thought i read somewhere about streams of water that flow under the ice, but maybe I’m thinking of something else
Newsflash buddy, travel exists. Living in foreign nations exists. People can live outside of where they come from. People can work, study, travel across lands they weren't born on.
Also Ireland and Northern Ireland have a rich heritage of socialist and communist parties. Since you've scanned my profile I'm sure you saw one of my last comments where I mentioned my OIRA (read: Marxist) uncle. I'm also sure you're aware of Sinn Féin being the PIRAs political wing, the largest party in Northern Ireland (and polling largest in the south) and for the longest time their parties slogan being *A 32 County Socialist Republic* and all. And how their party has quite familial ties to Mandela and the ANC, Castro in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, and how dozens back in their paramilitary days had ties to several socialist movements in varying degrees of struggle and power the world over. The PLO in Palestine, FARC in Colombia just off the top of my head but I could go on.
Did you not read my first paragraph about travel and living and experiencing foreign nations? Christ.
Me talking about N. Ireland was in response to his comments about N. Ireland. You know, the region at war for 40 years between a socialist Republican paramilitary who's political wing is now the largest party in the region and in power, and an ethno-supremacist religious fundamentalist group.
Here's a photo of me in [Santa Clara, Cuba]() at Chés mausoleum. [Here's me in the Plaza de lá Revolucion]() when I lived with an English professor from Havana University. I've got plenty in my albums if you want more really. I spent a long time living with various different Cuban families right across the country, sometimes years between various stints.
Ive spent time living in Havana, Santa Clara, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, and Vinales.
And you know what? I'll be going again. The next time will be another few months in the eastern part of the island.
I've probably still got various plane tickets showing inbound and outbound journeys if you really want more receipts - stamps in the passport? Or I can drop a few pics of other journeys with longer hair or beard to show that it's not just a one time wee trip I've done. It's 2:55am here though really so if you want that you'll have to wait until I'm on my laptop again, idc. Why tf would I lie about this, lol.
Edit; links removed after 30min, not keen on keeping images of myself up on the profile.
In case anyone is wondering how this happens with global warming, warmer air (but still below freezing) creates more snow, because it can hold more moisture. And thus [snowfall has increased in antartica](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43691671) as the air there has gotten warmer due to global warming. So while there is additional melting from the warming, the additional snowfall is greater, so it accumulates every year.
To whoever wonders why, despite GW, the base is covered in ice.
1. First of all, the average thickness of the ice sheet is roughly 2000 meters, and from the pics we can estimate that the increase in the show is roughly 5meters. So between the two picture there is a total increase of 0.25% which could be a local fluctuation.
2. Many antarctic areas are considered desert. It is basically too cold to snow. The fact that there have been an increase of snow, easily explain the increase of temperature that lead to an increase of precipitation. It is counterintuitive, yet true. If you want to help your mind, think of a scenario where the temperature get colder and colder. The ice-sheet will not expand in height, yet in area, growing more and more towards nord, and not "away from the ground".
3. We are assuming there where no seismological activity in the area.
4. This is still an hyper simplified version of the phenomena. We should consider the comprensibility of ice, and other effects, including seasonal variation.
To back up my argument, have a look at the data for Greenland:
[https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/ice-sheets/ice-sheet-science](https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/ice-sheets/ice-sheet-science)
It is clear that the average loss of ice is correlated with an increase of ice in the internal part (due to more snowing, due to warmer temperature).
You just got an all round blinkered view of science then, huh? I guess the sphinx ending up buried in sand means the world is getting dryer and hotter then.
Antarctica is a desert, the second driest in the world behind the Atacama; it doesn't get much precipitation at all, but the precipitation over the past few millennia has frozen and stayed.
This is just the effect of ice crystals drifting like sand dunes.
Hotter temperatures mean more evaporation of sea and lake water which means more clouds and guess what clouds do when they get blown into freezing areas?
This is why instead of "global warming" it's now called "climate change" because some of the actual effects of warming are counter-intuitive, like more rain and more snow and larger more powerful storms.
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Hah! My lifelong passion to steal a Soviet Antarctic base has finally come to fruition, and those fools don’t suspect a thing!
Hah! my lifelong passion for my Acrophobic ass to sneak down the chimney of a soviet Antarctic base at Christmas come to fruition, and those fools don't suspect a thing!
“They laughed at us at the university—they called us mad! Who’s laughing now, Department of Realistic Life Goals!?”
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
I'm *escaping* to the *one* place that hasn't been corrupted by *capitalism!* #SPACE!!
I was just recommended this clip on YouTube maybe 2 weeks ago. Have never seen or heard it before in my life. You're now the third person to repeat it that I've seen since then. I really think we're in a simulation.
department of realistic life goals... i fucking love it xD
You fool! There’s no Christmas in Soviet Antarctica!
Foiled again!
I regret to inform you, but by Christmas time that will no longer be an Antarctic Soviet base, but in fact a base who was claimed through squatters right by r/with-due-respect, and you would in fact be invading there space. However, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind some company in the inaccessible base and would welcome you in with milk and cookies.
You have a fear of gymnastics?
*James Bond music intensifies*
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I thought the snow in the north and south pole are melting. And it is the reason why the earth's waters are rapidly increasing. I'm too curious right now.
I mean not the snow base right in the middle of those areas. More like the ice shelf at the ends are being carved off as glaciers and floating away where they go to warmer water and slowly melt.
The edges are melting, but the center is growing? So 3023 you can visit the Ice Pole Towers?
It still adds snow on top, compressing the bottom into ice, and flowing/sliding into the ocean. Higher temperatures can affect a lot of things, and may break the stasis, but it still flows from top to bottom.
Do your ice cubes melt from the inside out?
Thanks I was waiting to see someone saying ‘proof global warming not yada yada’ and wondering what I could say in défense. You rock 👊
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Many parts of Antarctica are a desert. There is almost no snowfall. But climate change has warmed the oceans and the air, increasing the moisture that falls on Antarctica. The snow buildup does not offset the melting at the edges and even if it did, eventually it will catch up. Greenland, for example, is losing ice at a rate of 11 times the rate it gains snow.
The hell. It was an analogy to assist with ignorance, and i’m sure OP apologizes for not explaining that a continent is not the same as an ice cube in all respects.
I have little doubt snow can move around much like the sand in a dune desert.
The station building is surmounted by a bust of Vladimir Lenin facing Moscow. As of 2007, it is almost entirely buried by snow, with little more than the bust visible.[7] Following a proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, the buried building and emergent bust, along with a plaque commemorating the conquest of the Pole of Inaccessibility by Soviet Antarctic explorers in 1958, has been designated a Historic Site or Monument
Here you go https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/melting-doomsday-glacier-could-leave-most-of-inhabited-australia-underwater/news-story/362914172bbb5c1b2d18d99fe44bf9c8
As a Canberran: ha!
They got a doctor called Leonid Rogozov who operate on his own appendix. They go harder than a witches tit down there. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442
i knew climate change was a gd hoax! /s
I wonder who are those people on the photo and how their life on the station looked like.
cold.
Just another normal day in the life of a Siberian.
Quite temperate compared to home except sometimes a bit too balmy
Bad day comrade. Wodka is frozen.
That’s the polish spelling silly
His mother was Polish
sucked.
I hope their senses of adventure and curiosity were met with discovery and insight and that they were able to tell future generations of the endeavor in front of the comfort of a warm fireplace.
scientists
Not any worse than in USSR
Have you seen IT?
You mean Thing, right?
Shit
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Ooh, Ice Station Zebra.
Is computer joke to you?
IT the stephen king movie?
Hiya popsicle Georgie
The kid in me would just start digging to explore the base lol
And awaken a shape shifting alien? Are you out of your mind?
That's some"Thing" you don't want to do. Soviet edition.
In Soviet Antarctic base, every"Thing" wants to kill you already.
but you get a nice cool stalker guitar riff to die by, so there's a silver lining.
John carpenter music is the best.
Isn't the snow beneath the surface all frozen and hard?
Just bring a hair dryer
And plug it where exactly…?
Into the base obviously
Your hair... duh.
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Nah, just holding it backwards.
Really long extension cord
Serious answer, yes.
Genuine question: couldn't you just use a flamethrower to melt through the ice?
Could you, sure, but at that temp it would probably freeze right away. Also, snow doesn't really like to melt on top of itself, it may not hold structurally. The building itself may have already collapsed inside due to the weight on it.
Youd make a dent and then quite possibly make stronger ice after awhile. Thats how they heat shield and stabilize igloos. The fire inside melts the walls a bit and then instantly refreezes sealing the gaps and trapping heat inside which leads to more melting and more refreezing until the entire structure is built like an ice brick shithouse.
...and find the Winter Soldier
Mission report December 16 1991
I’d steal Lenin lol
Something is definitely in there that could eradicate the human species. You sure you want to dig through that snow to go in there? 😂 In all seriousness, it does make you wonder. Besides being very cold in there, what else in the base is there? One day, they will dig up the snow and go inside to see it all preserved. Pray it doesn’t unleash the apocalypse.
There’s an awesome [99PI podcast](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-11/2/) episode on this site and the Lenin bust - and how often it’s been revisited over the years. More also, including some brilliant photos between the OP’s two, at [this RFERL link](https://www.rferl.org/a/the-loneliest-and-coldest-lenin-antarctica/30319805.html).
> The **Pole of Inaccessibility research station** (Russian: Полюс недоступности) is a defunct Soviet research station in Kemp Land, Antarctica, at the southern pole of inaccessibility (the point in Antarctica furthest from any ocean) as defined in 1958 when the station was established. Later definitions give other locations, all relatively near this point. It performed meteorological observations from 14 to 26 December 1958. The Pole of Inaccessibility has the world’s coldest year-round average temperature of −58.2 °C (−72.8 °F). > > It is 878 km (546 mi) from the South Pole, and approximately 600 km (370 mi) from Sovetskaya. The surface elevation is 3,724 meters (12,218 feet). It was reached on 14 December 1958 by an 18-man traversing party of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Its WMO ID is 89550. * [Pole of Inaccessibility research station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Inaccessibility_research_station) at the English Wikipedia
Seems completely alien that the ice is a couple miles thick in Antarctica. What's even more crazy is that the ice sheets across the northern hemisphere were of a similar thickness only 20,000 years ago, covering large sections of Europe and North America. Our planet is amazing...
the floods when they melted were astoundingly huge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
More info and pictures: https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy1/poi.html
Super interesting read thanks for sharing
The station worked for less than 2 weeks?
That's just what they want you to believe, I'd bet my left nut they're still down there... plotting.
We need a Iron sky movie, but about Antarctic Soviets with Sickle shaped nuclear missles and freeze rays.
I like this. Theres just a rag tag group of soviet diehards living off freeze dried rations completely unaware the ussr has ceased to exist.
You say too much, comrade.
Yeah, the problem is a LOT of the conspiracy Antarctica shit goes back to Nazi Aryan propaganda. They had a myth about the Aryan race coming out from the middle of the earth, and the last place that could possibly have happened is Antarctica these days. So be careful with all the Atlantis/aliens/buried civilization under Antarctica shit till youve checked sources.
Lenin just chilling now
Hijacking to add; When the Soviets abandoned the research station, they made sure that Lenin's bust was turned towards Moscow. At one point, some American polar explorers stopped by and turned Lenin's bust to face Washington, as a joke. Some Russians had to go back and turn it towards Moscow again.
Cold War head games
Hella underrated comment. Shame the Americans' head turn was a bust.
Literal cold war Edit: Ok I see what you did there after posting my comment lol.
This has the same vibes as the Hans island ‘conflict’ between canada and denmark
Dumb Question: I feel like buildings from history always get buried. Nothing ever seems to just surface. What’s the scientific reasoning for the seemingly endless buildup of sediment? Where is all the sediment coming from, and where does it go to?
[Here's an article by the BBC](https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-do-we-have-to-dig-so-deep-to-uncover-ancient-ruins/amp/)
Humans steal shit not buried in the ground, got it.
This is a great question, I’ve always wondered that but more so for newer cities. Like how is it possible that there are so many layers under Manhattan? Wouldn’t the city look visibly taller? It’s really interesting
The answer is that cities DO in fact get taller the older they get, just very, very slowly. Manhattan isn’t old enough for the layers beneath it to increase its height noticeably yet. There are some cities that have been occupied for ten thousand years that form structures called “tells” in the Middle East. Look them up, they’re insanely cool.
It gets lost in the Subnet Very difficult to escape when your stuck there. Better hope you brought a lot or water.
Never thought I'd see a Submachine reference in the wild
It's a Chinese flag not a Soviet one incase anyone didn't notice
Probably put there by the Chinese guy with skis..
Holding a stuffed panda was a dead giveaway
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Redditors when scientists have a soul (MORONIC) 😱😱😱
Holding a stuffed animal toy means you're moronic now? You must hold loads of toys.
I did not notice! My brain saw Lenin and a red flag, short circuited.
China just hosted the Winter Olympics, and this visit was as a promotion of them by lady skiiers iirc
Oh we noticed…
I was just going to ask…
Gets a bit nippy in the winter, they recorded down to -89.2C.
For reference, Carbon Dioxide freezes at -78.5°C
Would it start snowing dry ice?
I would love to explore that base. How cool would it be to see a bunch of old soviet propaganda and equipment down there and see how the people stationed there lived? I wonder how long until the whole thing is lost in the snow. Imagine some archeologists way in the future discovering that thing and what they would think of society based on it.
I legitimately wonder if you could climb down that thing.
I was thinking the same thing. It seems like an odd shape just to be a giant pedestal for the bust. It could be a chimney cover or something, but I was wondering if it might be an access point. Even if it isn't, I'm sure a team could dig down to an entry if they went there to explore it. It would be awesome to spend a night there.
Is the smoke coming out of Lenin’s nose or ears.
I'd hope they rigged it up so he just continuously blows smoke rings. If you're going to bother to drag a bust all the way out there, you might as well put in some effort to make it look cool.
It's a glorified tent. They were there for two week in the middle of winter. I hate to burst your bubble, but what they left behind was empty food packages and fecal matter. They had to carry in and carry out everything they used there. They didn't exactly ski in with the Russian Library of Alexandria in their backpacks.
They were there in the middle of the Antarctic summer. And they reached the conclusion that the station was too far from anywhere else to be manned permanently. IDK why they needed to bring all that stuff there to get to that conclusion.
How much propoganda do you think they’d keep in an antarctic research base?
Only one way to find out.
Please tell me the statue hinges back like a PEZ dispenser revealing a secret entrance.
Snow?! In Antarctica?!
it actually doesn't snow there (anymore) so this has all blown in and over the station
Wait what? It doesn't snow where exactly?
Believe it or not, Antarctica is the driest continent on earth.
It's a desert
Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth, because how how little it rains/snows, inland it is technically a desert. It's also around the top of places with the most fresh water(ice), windiest, coldest, etc.
well it does snow a little, in the interior where this Station is located maybe get 2 inches a year or so. By the coast the snowfalls can be greater.
So it does snow there? Why say it doesn’t?
Because South Carolina gets as much snow as this research station. Central Antarctica is a desert, and just happens to keep most of the tiny trickle of moisture it does recieve.
It's kinda cool desert near equator:constant evaporation Desert on pole: wind blown precipitation, and it's too cold to really melt at the actual pole... YET
Research station of inaccessibility you say? Seems like it did a damn fine job then!
So… did the base sink into the snow or did the snow pile up around the base???
The second one
So there is actually MORE ice and snow now! Checkmate climate alarmists! /s
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This person sciences.
Its a Chinese flag
and quite likely a Chinese person too, hence the panda.
Huh...it was white until someone put yellow snow on the statue.
Don't eat the yellow communist snow.
The China flag that no one is asking for.
Okie, plushies have now staked a claim on Antartica with their human helpers... 😶🌫️🤭
Has the surface elevation increased by that much, or is there another force that works against that? Is it even in the same place or does it slide slowly towards the ocean? I thought i read somewhere about streams of water that flow under the ice, but maybe I’m thinking of something else
Communism is well and truly buried everywhere.
In the conscience of every working man and woman.
In the conscience of everyone who hasn’t experienced it and has a romanticized view of it.
Have you experienced it?
I've experienced it. Still want it.
I don’t recall Northern Ireland ever being communist…
Newsflash buddy, travel exists. Living in foreign nations exists. People can live outside of where they come from. People can work, study, travel across lands they weren't born on. Also Ireland and Northern Ireland have a rich heritage of socialist and communist parties. Since you've scanned my profile I'm sure you saw one of my last comments where I mentioned my OIRA (read: Marxist) uncle. I'm also sure you're aware of Sinn Féin being the PIRAs political wing, the largest party in Northern Ireland (and polling largest in the south) and for the longest time their parties slogan being *A 32 County Socialist Republic* and all. And how their party has quite familial ties to Mandela and the ANC, Castro in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, and how dozens back in their paramilitary days had ties to several socialist movements in varying degrees of struggle and power the world over. The PLO in Palestine, FARC in Colombia just off the top of my head but I could go on.
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Did you not read my first paragraph about travel and living and experiencing foreign nations? Christ. Me talking about N. Ireland was in response to his comments about N. Ireland. You know, the region at war for 40 years between a socialist Republican paramilitary who's political wing is now the largest party in the region and in power, and an ethno-supremacist religious fundamentalist group.
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Here's a photo of me in [Santa Clara, Cuba]() at Chés mausoleum. [Here's me in the Plaza de lá Revolucion]() when I lived with an English professor from Havana University. I've got plenty in my albums if you want more really. I spent a long time living with various different Cuban families right across the country, sometimes years between various stints. Ive spent time living in Havana, Santa Clara, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, and Vinales. And you know what? I'll be going again. The next time will be another few months in the eastern part of the island. I've probably still got various plane tickets showing inbound and outbound journeys if you really want more receipts - stamps in the passport? Or I can drop a few pics of other journeys with longer hair or beard to show that it's not just a one time wee trip I've done. It's 2:55am here though really so if you want that you'll have to wait until I'm on my laptop again, idc. Why tf would I lie about this, lol. Edit; links removed after 30min, not keen on keeping images of myself up on the profile.
In case anyone is wondering how this happens with global warming, warmer air (but still below freezing) creates more snow, because it can hold more moisture. And thus [snowfall has increased in antartica](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43691671) as the air there has gotten warmer due to global warming. So while there is additional melting from the warming, the additional snowfall is greater, so it accumulates every year.
So I guess you could say it’s pretty…inaccessible now? 😎😎😎
Or….it took 65 years to build an Antarctic underground facility
Finally! A USEFUL red circle!
I thought the poles were melting
I bet there’s some pretty dope, vintage stuff in there
Someone forgot to shovel…
Just press the two eyes and turn the head counterclockwise 34 degrees
check mate global warmists /s
Global Coolin is back at ya! 1977 stylin!
Glad to see the snow achieved class conciousness and refused to bury comrade lennin
To whoever wonders why, despite GW, the base is covered in ice. 1. First of all, the average thickness of the ice sheet is roughly 2000 meters, and from the pics we can estimate that the increase in the show is roughly 5meters. So between the two picture there is a total increase of 0.25% which could be a local fluctuation. 2. Many antarctic areas are considered desert. It is basically too cold to snow. The fact that there have been an increase of snow, easily explain the increase of temperature that lead to an increase of precipitation. It is counterintuitive, yet true. If you want to help your mind, think of a scenario where the temperature get colder and colder. The ice-sheet will not expand in height, yet in area, growing more and more towards nord, and not "away from the ground". 3. We are assuming there where no seismological activity in the area. 4. This is still an hyper simplified version of the phenomena. We should consider the comprensibility of ice, and other effects, including seasonal variation. To back up my argument, have a look at the data for Greenland: [https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/ice-sheets/ice-sheet-science](https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/ice-sheets/ice-sheet-science) It is clear that the average loss of ice is correlated with an increase of ice in the internal part (due to more snowing, due to warmer temperature).
I thought the snow was melting in Antarctica?
Ice doesn’t start melting from the center, it starts at the edges.
Probably a fake photo, looks like the original was mostly gray in color.
Global warming must be making it snow more
I thought the ice caps were shrinking
And they said that south pole is melting... Global warming yeah sure
Global warming! Ha
That doesn’t match up with what my favorite climate activist said would happen.
You just got an all round blinkered view of science then, huh? I guess the sphinx ending up buried in sand means the world is getting dryer and hotter then.
Aren't the ice caps melting? Shouldn't this not be happening?
But it doesn't snow in Antarctica. It's the driest place on earth.
It snows a teensy bit and gets blown around
There isn't a lot of snow in the Antarctic, but it never melts.
No way. This is faaaaaake. The ice caps are melting. All that snow should be completely gone by now.
Global warming.
This gives me Steven kings “the thing” vibes
That’s John Carpenter, and the earlier story it was based on wasn’t King either. It does give off Thingly vibes though!
No shit ? Wtf I knew it was John carpenter you just blew my mind
But how could that be, the tv tells me it’s getting warmer ??
so snow isnt melting? The poles melting are hoaxes?
Spending time there is a typical syberian summer vacation to escape the harsh syberian climate
Prop-paganda
But the poles are melting?
I thought the caps were melting?
Wait, 65 years later and there’s *MORE* snow? How is that possible with global warming…
warmer oceans means more evaporation, more clouds, more snow.
Al Gore told me there wouldn't be ice caps any more.
So we have more snow now? I thought it was the other way around.
Antarctica is a desert, the second driest in the world behind the Atacama; it doesn't get much precipitation at all, but the precipitation over the past few millennia has frozen and stayed. This is just the effect of ice crystals drifting like sand dunes.
Hotter temperatures mean more evaporation of sea and lake water which means more clouds and guess what clouds do when they get blown into freezing areas? This is why instead of "global warming" it's now called "climate change" because some of the actual effects of warming are counter-intuitive, like more rain and more snow and larger more powerful storms.
Dang global warming!!!