Here are a series of photos I took this morning to show how a gyroscope that runs continually as you circumnavigate the globe will tilt, relative to the ground, as the globe turns if it's indeed a globe earth. We'll start the flywheel up in a horozontal position in Colombia on the equator...
I'm holding a replica of a rotating disc in the same position relative to, say, the North Star. You can see that my silver disk is in pretty much the same position as I go around the side of the globe....
I'm now pulling the globe clockwise with my pinky finger while holding the disc in the same position relative to the curtain in the background...
I've pulled the globe counter clockwise by a quarter turn-- through 90 degrees. I'm holding the disc in the same relative position compared to where it was, against the curtain as a backdrop-- which in real life would be the stars or the North Star. Clearly, the disc is on its edge relative to the surface of the globe. This should happen in real life too. Why is there so much knashing of teeth over this simple proof? Why are people saying that it's not cost effective, for example, to build a 3 axis powered gyroscope consumer model that can demonstrate this simple fact? Why? Why?
Let's take it a step further and move the disc into a horozontal spinning position over Arizona where I live. Here's what that looks like...
Now I'm just moving my hand without moving the globe to show you where I'm taking the disk. It's a rough approximation but that's all I need. I don't need to be really precise with this proof because the degree of movement and the amount of rotation of the disc is significant enough that the point can be proven with a large degree of error...
As I move the disc around the globe, you can see that it's in a tilted position relative to the surface of the earth after moving 90 degrees. It's "almost" on its edge but not quite. It's sort of on an angle and certainly not horozontal....
Finally, I've pulled Arizona with my pinky around 90 degrees and you can see the disk is high on its edge... not quite 90, but much higher than horozontal. In other words, the demonstration works "good enough" in Arizona as at the equator.
The following picture of me shows that I wear lights on my glasses. In the future, everyone will because it's useful. Why are we walking around without lights projecting out of eyes? It's crazy. It's as crazy as not finding a 3 axis powered gyroscope for verifying globe vs. flat earth.
Just so you don't think I'm a wacked out nut case-- or at least, if I am, that I have lots of wacked out nut case readers-- here is a list of the attendance of my latest posts here. Hundreds of people read each of my important ground breaking and well written fun posts. Hundreds. Doesn't that tell you something? Doesn't that tell you that there are curious wacked out people out there who understand where I'm going with these ideas. Consider the possibility that we're NOT wacked out. Consider, for example that the rest of the world is wacked out and WE are wacked "in". In effect. WE are the Unwacky Ones... the real ones...
In a previous post about the Vendee race, a commenter, GJ, suggested a partial circumnavigation by water, along a particularly smooth circular part of Antarctica, close to the coast line, to detect a convex or concave shape. A convex verification would be consistent with an island which in turn proves a sphere-earth and a concave shape would be consistent with the rim-- which would be proof of a flat earth. The idea intrigued me and is close enough to my primary mission here of a complete circumnavigation to prove 15,000 or 65,000 miles, consistent with the sphere or flat earth respectively, that I thought we should start a new blog post dealing with it on its own. The original exchange between GJ and me on the Vendee post is below the illustration.
Here is just one example of a partial circumnavigation that could be used in the way GJ suggested.
GJNovember 29, 2015 at 2:22 PM
I just found this excellent blog. There is so much to process here. I believe the secret and the answer is at Antarctica. Is it a convex or concave mass on the approach and navagation? Would one steer towards it (into it) continuously as one curves around it, making it an island continent OR would one need to continously steer away from it to hug its rim - always turning away as not to run into it and hit its wall edge. Would like to discuss if you have any thoughts. Thank you for all of the great research
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RickDecember 1, 2015 at 7:12 AM
That's a good insight GJ. Steering into it or away from it would indeed indicate a convex or concave shape. Excellent thought.
As I struggled to convert the paper circle into rim with scissors and paste-ups, and later struggled to place research stations on the Gleason map (azimuthal projection consistent with flat earth), that thought rattled around in the back of my mind but I didn't quite articulate it the way you did so concisely.
It's a good thought. The first problem that occurs to me is the scale on which we're working here. It's hard to confirm slight inward steering vs. outward steering on a 15,000 or 60,000 mile circuit. Of course, if the sailboat race or any circumnavigation is real, the navigator on the ship would be able to tell us what he did to get around. THAT requires we know a navigator. And that would be interesting to pursue.
But then-- if we could make contact with a navigator who was willing to talk to us-- even for a portion of the trip around the island-- we'd be close to selling him on a complete circumnavigation. Still-- the partial test you propose is interesting theoretically. The actual coast line is so jagged that navigation inward or outward would almost have to be conducted by an expert air or sea navigator who knew what he was doing. So overall, I think it's a good idea but the scale of the problem makes it as difficult as the original idea of a complete circumnavigation test.
Thanks for the insight however. Great idea.
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GJDecember 2, 2015 at 3:57 PM
Rick
Absolutely, the scale is unimaginable ! And yes, extremely difficult to discern inward/outward turns.However, a partial coastline sail from Coats Land around to Victoria Land, is mostly circular coastline. I imagine, in every sense of the word, imagine...that plotting a course just slightly north of the delineated Arctic Circle as to avoid most if not all cragged edges. What Im saying; is a way to get a read of the overall shape and the general direction in which you steer the vessel, inward or outward (plotting the big picture). Add to this expedition, a radar/tracking device that is recording its path and can provide a graphic "map" of its journey. Now...ive imagined this scenario as well. Imagine sailing directly along 80degree longitude towards the West Ice Shelf and facing it nose in, and perpendicular to the wall. Now turn a perfect 45 degrees left...straight line. You would either hit the rim, eventually OR
arrive on land. If it is an island cap you would be traveling away from it as it fades away from your right. Thanks for you thoughts on this!! Like I mentioned, I had not seen this aspect of Antarctica (circle or rim) explored ANYWHERE, it, for me, is the most crucial missing piece to all of it. I believe it can be an absolute undeniable proof. Simple geometry? haha
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RickDecember 2, 2015 at 7:25 PM
Yes, this approach is nowhere else on the net-- other than a possible fake attempt by a flat earther who suggested sailing boats around antarctica in opposite directions to see when and where they meet. My simpler circumnavigation as proof is suggested possibly before me but certainly zeroing in on this as proof one way or another has never explored to the depth I'm going, before me, Captain Rick of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Flat Earth Exploration Team.
So.... you're now going into some shoreline detail for a PARTIAL circumnavigation that indicates a convex or concave shape. It's already late tonight but I'll look at this over the next several mornings. It's the most interesting response I've had so far on this blog as it relates directly to my mission. Thanks for the hint about the "mostly circular coastline" between Coats and Victoria.... I'll dig out my maps and upload a new blog post about this which illustrations.
I'm currently bogged down in retail / Christmas / piano so I expect to blog-post in detail on your suggestion in January.
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GJDecember 3, 2015 at 2:09 AM
Rick
Looking forward to your response in January. After I wrote my last post, I had another thought you might be able to speak to.
In regard to sailing directly towards Antarctica and approaching it nose in, at the West Ice Shelf and perpendicular to its wall, then turning a 45 degree angle and sailing due ...left. Lets say that this imaginary expedition had radar tracking in real time. One of two things would be evident: If it is a rim, the ship would move counterclockwise around it. If it is an island cap and the ship hugged its shore, the ship travels clockwise around it. I would like to continue to add new ideas to your blog that you can explore at a later time after the holidays. Thanks again!
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RickDecember 3, 2015 at 5:39 AM
OK, that one is so tricky for me to imagine right now that I have to map it out for sure. Here's what I can do right now to get started-- since "barely started" is "almost done" in my practical philosophy. (The idea behind it is that every time you act, you strengthen the motivation behind that act). I'll post a new blog entry right now on this idea. That way, you can add to this particular idea on a clean page. The page we're on right now ridicules that Vendee Race-- which got you started here. This "Partial Navigation to Detect a Convex or Concave Antarctic Shoreline" idea of yours will be the title of the post-- and the index entry as well.
Lo and behold-- this morning after waking up too early and not being able to sleep, I did some surfing on "bubble level" and "flat earth" (working on another idea) and found a surveyor's map that seems to be a highly detailed and accurate version of my previous concept. They used tools more sophisticated than I did and came up with an interesting looking result-- along with the addition of ocean currents to boot.
I paste their results here only as an initial effort but I now intend to update my updated 1898 Gleason azimuthal projection with the research stations as before Rick Potvin's Virtual Circumnavigation of Antarctica to Decide if Earth is Global or Flat: Gleason Map Update-- only now with the more accurate coastline of the Antarctic rim. This will have never been done before. I will have been the first to integrate the surveyor's ocean current azimuthal projection WITH the Gleason map AND with the research stations of our modern era. For now, here is the projection with my source links to get started. I'll index this map under "surveyor's projection" for readers' future reference.
UPDATE: I've erased the inner map using a paint program leaving only the the shoreline of the Antarctica Rim of Flat Earth.
UPDATE: Here's a poor quality but conceptually interesting overlay of the 1895 Gleason map with my updated station locations combined with the surveyor's map.
Here's an earlier non-labelled rim map I found somewhere-- sorry about not sourcing it exactly-- it's commonly popping up on flat earth searches. It compares favorably with my new find of the surveyor's map above although the new one does seem to have much more detail.
Every circumnavigation of Antarctica I read about seems to have a major glitch. Why is that?
What Bellinghausen wanted to do was very straightforward. It didn't work out that way. And he did not try again. And nobody followed up with a "cleaner" version of his voyage.
What good is his mission now-- to my mission of proving the distance around the "bottom" of the world- the coast line of Antarctica? None. Oh, I'm sure I could work with the subtractions and additions, the adjustments and fine tune it... but by the time I've done all that, I've lost interest.
Why can't anyone simply sail around Antarctica in a straightforward verifiable way (for their era). The lack of a clear circumnavigation in history is not proof of a flat earth-- it only proves that there's a lack of proof.
Here is the route and the detour Bellinghausen took.
Eric Dubay points to Captain Cook as a viable reference for flat earth Antarctica because he travelled 60,000 miles around Antarctica consistent with flat earth. But, aside from the fact that I don't like Dubay because he a) banned me from his IFERS forum after my first post without explanation and b) he has a robotic monotone voice impossible to listen to -- aside from those points-- he doesn't provide a map of what HE thinks Cook's circumnavigation journey consisted of. As anyone can see from the mixed up mess of a route map below, Cook's voyages are not conclusive on the face of it. It turns out Cooks voyages are a rabbit hole if you dare drill down on them like I did before giving up because I have a job and do this crap in my spare time-- my dwindling spare time since my property taxes are inexplicably doubling along with the price of eggs. If I could encourage God to damn anything, I'd have him damn the increasing price of eggs and property tax. But I digress don't I. As usual. On beer. (The beer is talking).
So Eric-- you first-time-forum-poster-banner-monotone-speaker-- I ask you-- where is the 60,000 mile route you think Cook sailed? Is it the green line? The blue line? The red line? Another line? You see- I think Captain Cook was a drunken sailor, given the above route. Is there any map published that explains the route, graphically with little balloons like in the comic books? No. Why not? You would think that in a world where we have the internet and computers, that someone could do that. Nope. I'd love to see a movie or read a book that details the decisions made on board Cook's ship as they navigated their way around the world as seen above. I think it might resemble a Monty Python skit.
It took a year and 3 months for the Russian ship Apostal Andrey to loop from the Sandwich Islands going east around Antarctica to loop back and cross the 60th parallel at 0 long. That's a long time. Much longer than is currently accomplished by the sailboats of Antarctic Race. The Russian trip took place in 2004 to 2006, the most recent full circumnavigation I've been able to get data on.
If we assume a flat earth Antarctic rim of 60,000 miles, that's 60,000 mi / 365 + about 80 days... or 445 days or 134 miles a day. This is a reasonable distance to travel in 24 hours by ship. If we assume 15,000 miles consistent with ball earth... the daily average travel distance is 34 miles. That seems pretty tiny. All in all, I think the fact that the journey took well over a year is consisent with the longer 60,000 miles distance and thus the flat earth. Captain Cook took a circuitous route around Antarctica that I haven't figured out yet but he took 3 years to go around twice apparently as I recall. That's consistent with an order of magnitude of once around by ship in a year and half. And that's consistent with Apostal Andrey.
Here's a video clip of that journey I found on Youtube.
PROBLEMS
1. The map in the yellow chart above shows a blue line to New Zealand and to Japan that are not on the itinerary of the 3rd trip. A detour to New Zealand is referred to as they lost their rudder and develop an incredible story of subsituting a door. What??? This is suspicious.No mention is made of the Japan tour. How is that even possible for as sailboat? Yet there it is on the map. Source.Adventure Club - The 3-nd voyage of the yacht "Apostol Andrey" - Route
http://www.shparo.com/yacht_2004_2005/yacht_2004-2005_route.htm
Jun 21, 2005 ... Nikolay Litau and his five crewmembers knew exactly what to do when their steel yacht, Apostol Andrey, lost its rudder at 3 a.m. off Antarctica.
A highly unlikely situation-- a door rudder is seen as the boat is raised for repair in New Zealand. This is hard to believe. I can't find any video or accounts of how they lost their original rudder, or how they installed this door rudder.
May 7, 2005 The yacht "Apostol Andrey" left the New Zealand.
This time our yacht has to overcome more than 6 000 miles – this is the distance from Wellington to Vladivostok, the finish point of our crossing. On our way we plan to visit some of the Pacific island states.
My comment- Why go to Vladivostok after repairs? Why not continue the simple circumnavigation???
2. Position #19 must have a misprinted date of 2005. The date must be 2006.
3. This Russian crew travelled all that distance yet didn't make a stop at the Russian research station NovoLazarSkaya?
4. The maps don't show the last 3 stops at 17, 18 and 19. Why not?
5. The article about the Ham radio prepartion says they planned to be on ham air to March of 2005 but the journey lasted much longer than that through March 2006.
And for ham radio here's the best part. The skipper of the
"Apostol Andrey" is Nikolay Andrey, R3AL. He plans to be on
the air from the Antarctic area starting this December and
continuing through March of 2005. Andrey has the QSL cards
already printed for this expedition and the ship also has an
official Russian postmark onboard and a special postal
stationary envelope for this expedition.
For details on the World-Wide Antarctic Program and the
expedition, go to the World-Wide-Web. The spot is in
cyberspace at www.ddxc.net/wap
Nov 8, 2004 ... It started back on September 14th, when the famed yacht "Apostol Andrey" started out to circumnavigate the area while carrying an operational ...
6. There are no time and date stamps on the videos.
After completion in August 2006 the circumnavigation around the Antarctica the yacht Apostol...
7. If the average speed of the boat is 10 knots (roughly mph or nauts-- nautical miles per hour-- which for our purpose is close enough)-- then sailing 10 hours a day = 100 miles. They should have covered the 15,000 mile ball-earth perimeter in 150 days-- /30 = 5 months. It took them 15 months... consistent with a 3 X 15,000 = 45,000 which approaches a 60,000 Antarctic rim. These numbers are not proof of a flat earth rim Antarctica but they simply raise questions right now. I wish my results were not so ambiguous.
8. The Russian crew is pictured with a ball earth behind them. Adventure Club - Photo Exhibition
http://www.shparo.com/photo/Yacht-3/Album/album_yacht-3_13.htm
If they actually carried out this trip as they say, could they have fooled themselves? Shouldn't they have realized that they were taking a much longer time to cover the estimated distance than they had imagined? Captain Cook is noteworthy for his journal entries noting that his own calculations were off by 20 miles a day.
9. This trip was partly to celebrate Bellinghausen's Antarctica trip 185 years before-- but I think Bellinghausen was not conclusive either. I didn't have as much data on that trip. See the index below.
But the most significant achievement had become the discovery of the Antarctica in 1820, made by Faddey Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. In summer 1819 the sloops "Vostok" and "Mirny" sailed from Kronshtadt, 185 years later the yacht "Apostol Andrey" will also start its route to the shores of the Antarctica.
10. A New Zealand publication noted the Apostel Andrey's stop at Dumont D'urville-- an interesting official receipt that I'll be on the lookout for in the future. OPOSTOL ANDREY
http://www.newzeal.com/theme/Ships/Russia/apostolandrey.htm
11. The official card showing the route indicates more stops than the Adventure Society's map that sponsored the trip. See the Adventure Society's map at the top of this post... then view this.
Why are there more stops on the map just above? Who is Cbeta? what is the other logo?
source: http://www.newzeal.com/theme/Ships/Russia/apostolandrey.htm OPOSTOL ANDREY
12. OH NO!!!! -- Check this out. This explains the map that shows the trip up to Japan.... which is actually a trip to Vladivostok... in this sail boat. Sure. Why is this trip not noted on the yellow log chart at the top of this blog? Why is this trip touted as a circumnavigation when in fact it was not? It was a TWO PART TRIP that is now too hard to verify. A similar thing occurred when I looked carefully at Bellinghausen's trip 200 years before.
2006 Re-Commencement of Voyage.
After spending some time in Wellington for repairs and because of the lateness of the season, the decision was made for the "Apostol Andrey" to return to Russia and then come back to New Zealand at the end of the year to complete the circumnavigation. The yacht sailed to Vladivostok and then returned to New Zealand arriving at Lyttelton on the 12th of January, 2006.
The "Apostol Andrey" is shown at right sailing within Lyttelton Harbour.
13. A big deal is made on this site of postcards with postal stamps. Maybe I should look at these more carefully. MAybe this simple method can be used to examine other circumnavigations of Antarctica. It's possible that Ham Radio and Postcards might be used to verify a true continuous circumnavigation. There's actually an Antarctica Philatety Society (!?) and website.
14. Here's a complete diary of the entire trip that will take awhile to go through. I'll examine it in coming weeks for more clues as to what really happened here.
At last the wind appeared. And we took a course to the East. The forecasts promise us good life till Christmas. And for the present our coordinates at 17:00 GMT 04.01.04: 56° 56' S, 18° 38' W, south wind of the rate 8-10 m/sec; the temperature of the air: +2° C, the water: -1° C. Today we saw something looking like a sun, we constantly observe icebergs. Our spirits are in normal state.
The diary states the miles they'll sail... and the time
quote: Now the yacht will start its sailing in the "violent sixtieth". The crew will spend three months behind this parallel, which is the official border of the Antarctica. Three months in a company of icebergs and wandering albatrosses, in the waters which temperatures never have risen above zero. The yacht will sail almost 10000 miles before a full completion of the Antarctic circuit.
end of quote
Note that his estimate is 10,000 miles not 15,000 miles which I thought would be closer to the mainstream idea of a trip around Antarctica. As well, the actual trip was 15 months, not 3 months...
January 13, 2005 There are actually no news…
There are actually no news, slow, monotonous sailing. There was almost no wind during the last two days. The speed of the yacht Apostol Andrey was around 2 knots. A fog was replaced by a drizzle, and drizzle – by wet snow. There are no traces of life, sometimes we saw a lonely petrol, passing by.
MY COMMENT-- No wind? Unlikely around Antarctica.
January 14, 2005 The thirteenth...
At last the wind started to blow after two days of light breeze. By night the wind increased up to 15 metres, and we had to reef. The day was over and I decided to take the next watch. I came up to the deck and took a steering wheel from Andrey Balymov and when he disappeared in the hatch, the grotto flapped on a wave and I saw an enormous hole in the sail. At the first minute of the thirteenth January
MY COMMENT-- a HOLE in the sail??? How likely is this? Note that there are no lat and long data on these entries... I'm beginning to wonder if the entire trip was pure fiction.
January 20, 2005 Fishermen or pirates?
When the re is light breeze, a sailing is going on smoothly and without incidents. While our moving to the south, the wind goes away to the east, but it allowed us to go by the wind along our general course till today. The roughness of the sea is small. A pressure has come to a standstill five days ago. This sailing to some extent reminds us of our sailing under trade winds. The main difference is only in temperatures, occurrence of icebergs (but now we meet them not so often) and absence of heavenly bodies.
In an hour before supper we had an unexpected meeting: a small ship was moving in opposite course from leeward side. We passed each other at the two cable's length. This ship did not have any name, nor flag or other tokens. They did not show any interest in us and told us that they were fishermen from Peru. May be this is true, but fishermen usually do not like to confess that they are fishing in this area. We wished each other happy journey and a mysterious ship disappeared in a snow squall.
Yours sincerely Nikolay Litau
MY COMMENT-- How convenient! No verification of crossing paths with another crew is possible.
February 9, 2005 During a month to the south of the 60-th parallel.
We met the last one on previous Sunday, when the yacht "Apostol Andrey" did not manage to sail even 50 miles in daytime
My COMMENT-- I was about right in terms of order of magnitude distance expected per day. I said they should move 135 miles a day. Here we see 50 miles is disappointing... thus 135 miles should be a favored norm, approximately.
March 3, 2005 The yacht "Apostol Andrey" interrupts its circumnavigation.
A message from the board of the yacht "Apostol Andrey":
Today, at 3.00 in the morning the yacht lost its ability to operate due to the breakage of the steering control. The yacht had to lie to. When the day start the team examined the steering control and found out that they had lost the rudder blade. The crew started to make a temporary rudder, which would allow them to reach the nearest port. But they did not manage to complete the work before night, tomorrow we plan to fasten a new bladder and to try it in action.
There was made a decision to sail to the New Zealand – the nearest land to our yacht, separated from us by 1300 miles. Unfortunately now the yacht is situated already to the east of the New Zealnd. We have to return to the north-west opposite dominating direction of the winds. In all other respects everything is OK on board. The crew is healthy and does not lose presence of mind. We have enough supplies of fuel, food and water.
Yours sincerely Nikolay Litau
MY COMMENT-- So here we see the problem develop with no reference to lat and long positions or normal ship diary accounting as I understand it. No mayday is issued on the ham radio. No distress call. They're in big trouble. They "do not lose presence of mind" despite being ruderless 1300 miles away from land. Hmm... Are they taking Valium?
April 1, 2005 The yacht "Apostol Andrey" has arrived in Wellington, New Zealand
After passing more than 2000 miles without the rudder the yacht "Apostol Andrey" has arrived in Wellington. Here the yacht would be lifted from the water and all necessary repair works would be done. After that the skipper and the crew would take a decision about the further destiny of their third circumnavigation.
Press-Service of the Adventure Club.
MY COMMENT --2000 miles without the rudder?
May 7, 2005 The yacht "Apostol Andrey" left the New Zealand.
This time our yacht has to overcome more than 6 000 miles – this is the distance from Wellington to Vladivostok, the finish point of our crossing. On our way we plan to visit some of the Pacific island states.
My comment- Why go to Vladivostok after repairs? Why not continue the simple circumnavigation???
August 6, 2006 Connection of times, or 185 years later. The third circumnavigation was completed. 49 650 miles were left astern, this distance is more, than the length of the two equators. MY comment-- the mileage includes a trip to Vladivostok and back and to New Zealand... so it's impossible to determine the recorded official mileage around Antarctica-- another boondoggle just like the original trip by Cook and Bellinghausen in years past. They called this a success?
The crew looks far too happy for the 2 part dangerous mission-- was it all a hoax? Possibly.
keywords - andrey, apostel andrey, flat earth, rick potvin, antarctica
If we were to fly around Antarctica and pick up signals from the transponders located as seen below, then this could help confirm a definite coastal length as closer to 15K or 60K miles. A flat earth rim, the inverse of the island, might indeed have these tranponders... which is really a two way transmitter AND reciever. Why are these things built with RECIEVERS? What are the transponder recieving? Are they all occupied by people? Note how they're EVENLY distributed around the perimeter, even along Marie Byrdland where there are no stations.
SOVIET UNION HISTORY IN ANTARCTICA
The site link above details many fascinating aspects of the Soviet Union in Antarctica. As much as I've looked into Antarctica on this blog to this point, that Soviet history site presents even more startling photos and new information gathered in one convenient location.
RUSSKAYA LOOKS PEACEFUL rather than TRECHEROUS
The general impression I've had of Russkaya to this point was that it was really hard to maintain and very trecherous. The photo above contradicts that impression. This is worth looking into further in that regard, as well as the aspect of Russkaya that has it placed in the relatively unpopulated Marie Byrdland where, inland, most of the tranmitter stations are. Russkaya also features a possible bio hazard from cold bacteria according to the comment by felix in the post linked above. I'll look into these aspects further in coming days.
This morning, it struck me that my approach to circumnavigating Antarctica has a flaw, so far-- but it's easily corrected. I look at this map of the 1983 partial-circumnavigation of Antarctica by a US Coast Guard ship doing an inspection tour. It's one of the most complete partial circumnavigations of all the inspection tours I've seen to date.
Note the label in the bottom left hand corner-- CRUISE TRACK OF THE USCG CUTTER POLAR STAR. I didn't pay attention to that earlier. I was merely interested in ANY circumnavigation path. Now however it seems to me that paying attention to WHICH SHIP and what vehicles are used in these Inpection tours is critical to my mission of determining the actual distance and time around Antarcitca to prove it an ice rim or an island-- 60,000 miles or 15,000 miles. I looked up the USCG Polar Star and it has it's own web page and news. We see that it ended its involvement in "Deep Freeze" in 2014 and there have been no updates since then. The ship was rebuilt since 1983 of course-- and it's still in service. I wish my car could be like that.
Inspection tours under ATS are the most hopeful way I have to do my task here. I don't think Vendee Globe is real and the latitude is too high anyway. The inspection tours ARE real.
I need to track inspection tours using a single vehicle-- whether that's a plane or ship. Multiple vehicles and multiple teams create too many tracking complications. We need to follow ONE team, in ONE vehicle-- tracking time and distance-- and we need to see a complete circumnavigation tour-- which has never been done-- but was almost done a few times.
The only other way to do this I can see at the moment is to hire a millionnaire who will finance a private ship or plane to do the circumnavigation, hopping from ice runway to ice runway and station to station as, say, a journalist or private inspection tour operator. That's far less likely than tracking existing inspection tours coming up however.
