Wow! Not surprising I guess that someone would want to build a land "route" to the south pole base, but it raises a whole hell of a lot of questions! I like the doublespeak from the NSF spokesman about it being more a route or trail than a highway or road- yeah, ok whatever.
I could not, there arent enough fuel stops available!
TB
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
Can't be building a road across miles and miles of pristine permafrost and shiny crunchy snow now can we?
Frankly, I don't see the point. It'll just get covered in snow each year, and it'll probably have to be re-dug (or whatever) each year. Why not just set up a GPS route and not waste taxpayer money on another pointless "study".
I'm far from an expert on the matter, but doesn't a lot of the Antarctic continent qualify as "desert"- i.e. get minimum precipitation? (I'm not talking about the "Dry Valleys" with 1000 year old dessicated seal carcasses in them) Seems to me I've heard that it actually snows very little down there- what seems like snow or a blizzard is just existing ice crystals blowing around. For one thing due to the continent's central mean elevation of 10,000' the air is pretty darn dry. So I wonder if a road is constructed, would it really be a given that it would be covered in drifting snow each season enough to warrant digging a "new" road- essentially like the N. Cascades Hwy by the W.S.D.O.T crews? Anyway, more points to ponder....
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Frankly, I don't see the point. It'll just get covered in snow each year, and it'll probably have to be re-dug (or whatever) each year. Why not just set up a GPS route and not waste taxpayer money on another pointless "study".
