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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
My great grandfather was on the Terra Nova with Scott and was in the rescue team which went to look for him and he was the one who found his body. He was a Norwegian called Trygve Gran.
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...
Lovecraft had to invent an unimaginably huge mountain range and weird aliens to make a scary Antarctic expedition, meanwhile the real Antarctica bleeds.
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
@@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.
@@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
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.
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".
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".
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.
@@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.
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?
@@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.
"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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
I hope you're joking but I tend to think you probably aren't. The World Isn't flat. Yes, the government and NASA lie about almost everything but the shape of the earth isn't one of them
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
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.
This gentleman is the most entertaining TH-cam presenter I've heard in all my many years on YT. His use of pauses and ... good explanations is amazing.
@@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
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.
Nice theories, but the real reason why you can't go to Antarctica is because the edge of the Earth is guarded. By seven million laser-armed NASA-trained penguins.
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
@@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.
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.
@@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!
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 TH-camr, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@GRAVEAUDIO a friend from Australia is an industrial electrician. He did 2 x 6 month rotations in 2018 - 19 and if I remember correctly, he came home with $70k tax free Australian dollars for each rotation.
@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. 👍🏾
@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.
@@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.
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
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!!
@Alterium4579 No, I'm not a Witwiccan. Remember the part of the credits that says, “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental"? They could say that because they changed it from south to north and Megatron to NBE-1.
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.
@@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.
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".
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-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
@@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 …..
Fun fact: Technically the South magnetic Pole of Earth is in the Arctic. The North magnetic Pole is in Antarctica. That's why the N pole on a compass points to the Arctic. Opposite poles attract. It's attracted to the South Pole. In the Arctic.
@@Baptized_in_Fire.yeah, I thought that’s how polarity innately works, north only points north, because true south is up there on that pole and vice versa
@@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.
On Scott's first push South, on the Endurance Expedition, they were more trying to see how far south they could get, rather than seriously thinking they were going to reach the Pole. It was claimed in a book Scott wrote about the Expedition, that they turned back from their southern push, because Shackleton had fallen ill, but in fact he had become ill when they were already retreating back north. That and Scott invaliding Shackleton off the Expedition and sending him home, is what mainly caused the rift between the two. Also, on retreating back north after coming very close to the Pole on Shackleton's next Antarctic expedition, his party would have had difficulty eating any dogs, as they took none with them. (They did have stashed pony meat for the return journey right enough.) His party also did not take skis with them and Amundsen said that, if Shackleton's party had used dogs and/or ski's, it would have been virtually certain they would have been the first to the Pole and back.
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.
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.
Bingo‼️ "sobriety" is for We, The Awakened People who literally LIVE for The Discovery of Truth . . . Where do you think "You can't handle the Truth" came from⁉️
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!
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.
Correct me if I'm wrong but even in the 70's I was led to believe that one of the biggest factors between the Scott expedition and Amundsen's was the reliance on Ponies vs Dogs. Scott relied more on the Ponies and in fact turned the few dogs he had back before their final leg.
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 :)
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.
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"
"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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The falcon screech every time Joe said Robert Falcon Scott 😂 has made my day. I'm cracking up over here 🤣
Ditto! As soon as I heard it the 2nd time, I knew this wasn't a coincidence, so... I had to go the comments.
Me as well. I was going to compliment him on the commitment to the bit
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My cat was also very intrigued.
😂😂😂 I came back to comment and found your comment 😂😂😂😂
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! 💪 👹
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.
What a Boss.
@@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.
@@thedirectorschair1054WOW! Thank you for sharing.
@@TrueReal-de6eethat's what his crew would call him "the boss"
AntARCtica
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.
My great grandfather was on the Terra Nova with Scott and was in the rescue team which went to look for him and he was the one who found his body. He was a Norwegian called Trygve Gran.
Are you serious!? ARE YOU SERIOUS! What a guy.
@@johnkelly3549 I am serious.
no way dude thats your grandfather!!!!?
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_."
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
@@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.
@@Kenny-tc6rg well you are the one asking the obvious , there is no dumb questions they say
@@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.
@@BeefNEggs057 he must have been on the other side! In July only the Arctic circle has 24 hours light.
Someone’s been playing too much rust
"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
5:14 that sound isn’t added in. It actually just happens when ever you say Robert falcon scotts name
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.
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.
Yep there is tourism, super bad for the eco system and shitty to do but possible. There is even space tourism i think.
@@hurstiwurstimust protect Antarctica!!! I mean let’s kill each other, but one thing we can all agree on is let’s not pollute Antarctica 😂
@@trueneese8080 far too late if the russians already put all that anti freeze and glycol down there D:
@@hurstiwurstithe eco system only matters as long as it benefits humanity.
@@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.
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.
First too the South pole, probably the first to the north pole, and most likely the biggest "a-hole" to ever reach either :-p
The English, controlled, the organization that help sponsor Soctt Trip. Also , his wife was able to push his story .
"If you do something right, people won't be sure you did anything at all"
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...
he's a hero to us Norwegians but obviously he would be more famous if he was british or american
I love how with every “Robert Falcon Scott” there’s a tiny little falcon screech! 😂
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.
"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
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.
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?
@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.
@@revolutionaryfrogdon’t believe this kat…
Prove it
Pooh shiesty reference???
The falcon screech whenever you mention the name Robert Falcon Scott is low-key hilarious 🤣🤣
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.
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.
@@SmokeBurp Sure you can go, just book a flight...
@@Carlito84Qc no i mean because im busy
@@SmokeBurp Yeah, you need a South Face jacket.
😅
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.
Missed opportunity on naming the video "Antarctica Iceberg Explained"
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
@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!
@@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.
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.
so, only ben shapiro can survive in antarctica?
@@AsifKhan-hf9zy only Ben, nobody else. He is the chosen one of scientism
what if you don't have balls to freeze off? reduce risk to your balls by not having any to begin with [taps temple]
Also it's where all the transformers hang out and we aren't supposed to be homies 😢
Buy an astronaut suit from nasa
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
😂
@JoshuaBortnick
I guess a very rare combination, but why would the last two impede your Antarctic dreams?
This is the most informational On Cinema at the Cinema yet, so much room for Greg Turkington to run without Tim vaping the show to death.
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?!
You'd swear that the dogs were part of the meal plan in most of these expeditions
.... They were... It was a well-known thing.
Emergency foods
@@jar9153 also planned as food source
so they were all filipinos?!?!
"Sir, the dogs can't run anymore!" "Then they'll have to wok."
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 got like #200
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.
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
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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.
Frank Hurley. Good photographer. Shackleton and his men were hard af
@@tommythetrain1945yeah it’s beautiful, how were you travelling? Did you see it at night?
Can I see the pictures please
@@sidalikouchkar7368 he’s getting them developed on Pandora before his ship lands
Where can anybody go to look up your pictures? Or there isn't such a place with any pictures?
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.
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.
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!
I hope you're joking but I tend to think you probably aren't. The World Isn't flat. Yes, the government and NASA lie about almost everything but the shape of the earth isn't one of them
I believe in Santa and the Easter bunny. We should hang out and make fun of adults.
@@11111RPS11111 You'll need to find a glober for that.
@11111RPS11111
Haha..right Soon Hell Believe In OuterSpace and Aliens...😅😅
Wow 30 seconds research that must of hurt 😂
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
Chill
Have you ever been invited to a party?
Agreed
Crazy dudes. Men were built different back then for sure.
Coolest non-fiction book 'Shackleton's journey' I ever read as a 15-year old. Edit: or called 'Endurance', actually?
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.
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!!😂😂😂
This gentleman is the most entertaining TH-cam presenter I've heard in all my many years on YT. His use of pauses and ... good explanations is amazing.
@Capergirl27 what, specifically, did he lie about?
I found those pauses kind of annoying. He thinks he's funnier than he really is.
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"
I bet "conspiracy theorists" live rent free in his head
@@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
I appreciate people like you❤❤
@@Hhhh22222-w just out of curiosity, how do you know it's the facts, the whole facts, and nothing but the facts? Ever been?
@@voicingemotions same to you. Encantado por ❤❤❤
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
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??
@@nate5eplayer574 the aliens?
Nice theories, but the real reason why you can't go to Antarctica is because the edge of the Earth is guarded. By seven million laser-armed NASA-trained penguins.
Wait hold on, I think you might be on to something. This changes my whole perspective.
@@jinxalot121😂😂
SHHHHHHH 🤫 you're telling all “their” secrets.
@@AbsolutelyNot86 Oops, sorry.
Whats worse is my brain read trans penguin at first 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Antarctica lore is so tasty
High jump, blood falls, ancient pyramids, hollow earth it’s all way better than most lore people make nowadays
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
@@A123-d8oi believe zero conspiracies.
So you don't have a fkn clue about the true nature of your reality?
@@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.
@@ginnydare13 Total BS.
Everyone on Earth can SEE that the Earth ISN'T flat.
@@LaurentCassaro They can ? Where is the body of water that isn't surface level? Can you show us one?
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...
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. 😂
My cats were also very concerned about this sound
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.
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 TH-camr, 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.
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
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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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 love learning about our past, our history our planet. Thanks for sharing brother 🫡💙
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.
What's the pay like these days? I'm an electrician 🧐
Dude said he was there over 20 years ago why would you assume he knows the current economics?
@GRAVEAUDIO a friend from Australia is an industrial electrician. He did 2 x 6 month rotations in 2018 - 19 and if I remember correctly, he came home with $70k tax free Australian dollars for each rotation.
@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. 👍🏾
@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.
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 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.
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
@@nominou6 Dickie Byrd is very big in Albania !
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.
Made me wanna click off the video
I have a friend who has done numerous Antarctic expeditions. I can assure you he is no-one's shill.
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!!
I don't care what they tell you in school, my grandpa found Megatron down there.
Bro that was the north pole not south...bro is not sam witititicky💀🙏
@Alterium4579 No, I'm not a Witwiccan. Remember the part of the credits that says, “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental"? They could say that because they changed it from south to north and Megatron to NBE-1.
@@chaosgyro bro wtf r u saying nvm bro💀🙏
I do not care what they say in school, my grandma told me they found Megatron in Africa
@@vladmatei1958 He was obviously blackened from frostbite and not sun exposure. Tell your grandma to stop calling my grandpa a liar.
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.
Just lost my cat. He was 28 yrs old. I miss him terribly
@@solaris808 so sorry for your loss..remember he is only a THOUGHT away..Godspeed.
@@karin3507 thank you. I know I will be with him again…..
@@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.
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.
Did anyone else think Antarctica was full of ants when they were a kid?
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.
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
@@Flesh_Wizard Yep. It's just a matter of time before humankind is just a load , , of barbies and Kens.
The hawk sound every time you said "Falcon" killed me😂
It was funny the first 2 times
Yeah, it got old real fast. It almost made me stop watching the video before the half-way point.
Or, it was unreasonably annoying.
@@LazarusaffectThey should've changed it later to Hawk Thew
Craaacked me up 😂 I love the touches of years-past campy Joe 😊
1st time viewer. Just popped up on my scrolling. I’m hooked! Thank you! Texas fan here!
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.
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.
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".
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.
@@ledhiz Or the nonsense about that ship finding a huge ice wall and traveling back to the exact same place... Just stupidity
@@ChristopherHughes-x9yi dont think he meant literally and there are parts if it that just loop around
You CAN stroll around.
I've been there a couple of times, and walking is very easy, barely an inconvenience.
@@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
The falcon scott sound effect is hilarious 😂
Surprised he didn’t dive into the Admiral Byrd story from the 50’s.
I wonder why he did skip over this……
@@GeckoDays
Probably because he never said anything like this lmfao
@@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 …..
Because he wanted to talk about aliens instead of entities.
Yeah, it's not right without Byrd.
"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".
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. 🚫🐻❄️
A river being red because of iron isn't incredibly rare
From all rivers existing, less then 0,01% is red rivers. If that is not rare for you then I don't know what is 😂
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
The irony, all over the world we have snow capped mountains, but in Antartica it is mountain capped snow.
Honestly that's true. Wtf
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 😂
14:20 the urge to say your mom, is intense.
Explorer: "Hey sled dog, wanna come to the South Pole?"
Sled dog: "Yeah, I don't think so mate. Thanks."
Real pedigree chums.
Fun fact: Technically the South magnetic Pole of Earth is in the Arctic. The North magnetic Pole is in Antarctica. That's why the N pole on a compass points to the Arctic. Opposite poles attract. It's attracted to the South Pole. In the Arctic.
Australia has no sled dogs what dogs are all from Alaska or Norway or Sweden or Finland Russia there are no Australian sled dogs
@@Baptized_in_Fire.yeah, I thought that’s how polarity innately works, north only points north, because true south is up there on that pole and vice versa
@@Anthony-c5w I didn't said anything about the dogs location lok
Your comedic timing with the ‘falcon’ screech cracked me up.
SKREEEEEE
It was impeccable. Loved it.
Loved it too.
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.
On Scott's first push South, on the Endurance Expedition, they were more trying to see how far south they could get, rather than seriously thinking they were going to reach the Pole. It was claimed in a book Scott wrote about the Expedition, that they turned back from their southern push, because Shackleton had fallen ill, but in fact he had become ill when they were already retreating back north. That and Scott invaliding Shackleton off the Expedition and sending him home, is what mainly caused the rift between the two.
Also, on retreating back north after coming very close to the Pole on Shackleton's next Antarctic expedition, his party would have had difficulty eating any dogs, as they took none with them. (They did have stashed pony meat for the return journey right enough.) His party also did not take skis with them and Amundsen said that, if Shackleton's party had used dogs and/or ski's, it would have been virtually certain they would have been the first to the Pole and back.
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.
Lol
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.
Iconic!
why
@@EffectualPoet which part are you asking why about?
We can start our own country there?
genius comment! for those that know
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
Scienntist from over 200 countries each moving 300 tonnes of machines around ..all studying why the ice has cracks ...anyone else see a problem here
Joe is like my friend I could hang out with once I became sober, but then eventually he made me realize sobriety isnt for everyone.
Bingo‼️ "sobriety" is for We, The Awakened People who literally LIVE for The Discovery of Truth . . .
Where do you think "You can't handle the Truth" came from⁉️
@@JohnnyComeLately-kj4pxKAA MEE HAA MEE HAAAAA
@@JohnnyComeLately-kj4pxb I'm interested to hear your opinion of spiritual mind altering substances like mushrooms/ayahuasca?
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.
“Antarctica is impossible to survive” Emperor penguins, “Hold my beer!”
Hold my fish*
Looks like Joe has explored the whole Antarctica and now he knows everything about it, we appreciate smart guys like you Joe…
He talks about whatever his sponsors tell him to say.
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
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!
Judging from the number of ads, Joe must be doing well.
The 50 minute ad on belly fat was a little much.
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.
Good one 😂👍
lmao just piss downwind
that's way cooler than secret bases?
@@psychonaut689 Real stories are always cooler than fantasies... unless you're watching a movie.
@@bubb-t5e there is no downwind though. The winds are ripping from all directions
The commitment to the falcon call was not only admirable but hilarious too 😂
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.
You better get the chubby one, then.
Correct me if I'm wrong but even in the 70's I was led to believe that one of the biggest factors between the Scott expedition and Amundsen's was the reliance on Ponies vs Dogs. Scott relied more on the Ponies and in fact turned the few dogs he had back before their final leg.
Thumbnail looks like a whole ass far cry map
"Far Cry 7: Ice Lands"
Far Cry: Cry Far
almost 30 minutes, and didn't hear any reasons someone couldn't go to Antarctica... Huh.
Good point, Could be a click bait title. But he had some good info.
@@Ratbait9 yeah, I think, 'things you didn't know about Antarctica' would have been a bit better title.
Thanks I look for comments like those before pressing play. I owe you 30 mins od my life
Thanks for this so I can leave again. Always punish clickbait.
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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
Being a dog in Antarctica is quite dangerous.
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.
200mph is that an average