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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Ok, but that's unironically a great map for a TTRPG campaign.

I'm thinking Lovecraft. Plateau of Leng and all that. There's just this huge, impassable land that goes south for what seems like forever. And...things...occasionally wander out of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

And getting smaller everyday

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can we talk about how big that structure is?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

and we certainly wont be in a few hundred years lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I mean, show us the whole thing then!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don't see a banana anywhere....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

it's too cold steel wool they don't have bananas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

because it's smaller than a pixel :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I yeah i see it now, it's the pixel in the bottom right corner

it's 3% more banana-colored than the surrounding pixels, you can't miss it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

there ya go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Many have "claims". None are valid though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about penguins, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

humans, in a town called "Villa las Estrellas".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems that treaty: 1959, town: 1984.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The claim is older, 1940's iirc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

All are equally valid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How many flags are planted? No flag, no Antarctica. Those are the rules that I just made up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So then like a bunch of people own Mt Everest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but that means the US owns the moon, so it's ok.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. Looks like the moon just surrendered by now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

idk man i think we would win in a war against the moon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No bears, tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Serious Q: isn't there actually a lot resources in Antarctica? Or is it just too difficult to set up shop there?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

There certainly are, but...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System

This treaty means the entire continent is for science only.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure but mineables? Im probably oversimplifying because all my knowledge of getting stuff out of the ground comes from games but stuff like metals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You mean like ores like copper, iron, rare earths that kinda thing. There are seems of minerals that are actually meteorites that have collected in certain spots on a glacier. Haven't heard anything about other large deposits but usually you would need to do all kinds of geological surveys to find that stuff and since most places are covered in 1mile+ of ice it's near impossible.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Penguin leather

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cool band name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They do punk songs about Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most planets, and much of our planet, is uninhabitable. This is the threat of climate change. Antarctica is a desert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oil rigs and mines aren't exactly living off the land. Dropping enough preserved food off to supply a facility wouldn't be too difficult. The main reason nobody's doing it is the international treaties involved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's not the point. The point is the uninhabitable and impossible to live off the land places are expanding on our planet.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Big if true

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Where Saddam

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