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[-] filoria@lemmy.ml 60 points 8 months ago

The absolute horror of research in Antarctica. Clearly a sign of colonial intent.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

The absolute horror of research in Antarctica.

Yeah but have you even watched The Thing?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

No but I watched this documentary called the X files

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I try to stay away from conspiracies so I haven't gone down the rabbit hole too much, but there have been some weird things going on in Antarctica the last few years. Lots of visits from a ton of different heads of state for no officially stated reasons, civilian ships being turned away from certain areas, numerous reports of military aircraft flying around.

Like I said, I try not to dig into conspiracies too much, but this one sticks out to me. Maybe it's just because it reminds me of the pre-2016 days when conspiracy theories were fun to think about because they involved stuff like aliens and bigfoot. Now, every conspiracy is just some nonsense political BS that's clearly trying to push a message.

[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 12 points 8 months ago

They found the stargate

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Modern day conspiracies are so shit because they're all like 2 degrees removed from some antisemetic bullshit. The flat earth conspiracy has been hijacked by neonazis for fucks same.

[-] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

It is just common sense. Nations never do things for just one reason. Possession is 9/10ths of the law - if they fill Antarctica with their facilities they can later claim they have so many facilities they should just govern Antarctica. Not a bad strategic move in times of global warming.

There are dozens of research stations. Argentina has 14. The US also has 5 research stations and makes up one quarter of the summer population (China makes up 4%). Don't see any articles hand-wringing about US ambitions in the region, for some reason.

[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Australia has already claimed 42% of the continent fwiw. yes when climate change makes the rest of the world unliveable Aus 2.0 is waiting just down the road.

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