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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Fred Paulson's apparent trip to the South Pole features some oddities.


May 10, 2016. Tues. 7 am. by Rick Potvin

PAULSON AGAIN
I'll continue my look at Fred Paulsen this morning, the CEO of Ferring Pharmaceuticals who is financing a circumnavigation of Antarctica, but only a third of which is south of 60 degrees south. That latitude is where the Southern Ocean created in the year 2000 begins and where the Antarctic Treaty kicks in . 

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22frederik+paulsen%22+antarctica&num=100&newwindow=1&safe=off&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&sa=X&as_q=&spell=1&ved=0ahUKEwiVy-uZ18_MAhVELmMKHfDaAHsQBQgRKAA


MULTIPLE TRIPS?
Rick says... apparently this is not Paulsen's first trip to Antarctica. He was there in 2007 / 08. 
I don't have any other information on that previous trip yet. The following interview doesn't load very well so I haven't read it yet-- but it might load better another time.

https://www.rt.com/news/interview-with-frederik-paulsen/
Aug 7, 2007 ... Frederik Paulsen, a Swedish pharmaceuticals millionaire, ... already planned a major expedition, in December – January 2008, to Antarctica.



RECENT PHOTO & CONFERENCE
Rick says-- Here's a recent photo from April 2016. He's actively doing media appearances and conferences with regard to this upcoming mission.
Source:
http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/SWISS-SCIENCE--LR1EC4I13080B.html


VIDEOS
I spotted this video by the Mamont Foundation about Fred Paulsen's trip to the "South Pole"-- which doesn't exist on a flat earth. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMs1iVgqWzI

Rick's Review: Paulsen is pictured near the start of this video which doesn't have any narration. Paulsen then appears IN THE VIDEO!!!-- as being at the South Pole! Hmmmm.... very weird. Why would the billionnaire HIMSELF risk his life going on this adventure? Of course, you'd have to read his book to see why. The PROBLEM is that on a FLAT EARTH, there IS NO SOUTH GEOGRAPHIC POLE-- the pole is a hoax. There are several HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS VIDEO VIEWS OF the geography near the South Pole in the video like the following....
Ricks says-- Here we see a background that looks like a painting with brush strokes. The high contrast between the sky and the sun looks odd. It might be a lens artifact but it just doesn't look genuine to me. I wonder, now, if Paulsen is HIGHLY INVOLVED in Antarctic FAKERY. So far there is no mention of Paulsen and his team visiting the Amundsen Scott Reearch Station at the "South Pole" which would be expected of a billionnaire's visit (in 2013). 

Rick says-- Here's a team that included Paulsen, the billionnaire, on FOOT-- near the South Pole! Why not use machines like the pros? This is not credible. They're SKIING to the South Pole? No. Not. Negatory on that Fred Paulsen, apparently a billionnaire bimbo. NICE CAMERA WORK HOWEVER-- where ARE the cameramen? They're all over this team-- behind them, ahead of them, and so on, for the perfect filming of this documentary by MAMONT FOUNDATION-- which I supposed I'll look into. 

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Rick says.. Maybe I'll display my own ignorance here but this man is speaking French where another was speaking Russian. Are we to believe a team of mixed languages is at play here? That seems dangerous and ineffiecient to me-- in this environment. 


Rick says-- Here we see one of the team brought an accordion. Hmmm.... And they brought it by sled? And they're singing happy birthday to one of the crew? This seems ridiculous to me. The accordion player isn't hitting ANY of the right notes and obviously does not play. Of course the camera crew is outside filming in perfect Antarctica weather. And inside the tent, there is perfect lighting.

Rick says-- we're to believe that it's fine to go shirtless in Antarctica where temps are likely below freezing by a large margin?


Rick says-- Lighting appears odd here. Strips of white light at the top don't make sense.  Presumably they're clouds. 


Rick says-- Here we see presumably the station ahead with what appears to be a ploughed roadway or right of way along which the men are walking, not having thought to make this a machine-oriented mission with proper tractors and such.


Rick says-- Here they appear to be walking in a direction opposite to some buildings on the horizon. 


Rick says-- Here we see evidence of an obviously treaded line of snow and ice where a machine ran. So why is Paulsen insisting on walking? 


Rick says-- Someone puts a tiera on Paulsen.... as his walking team approaches the Scott Amundsen South Pole station.


Rick says... And here's Paulsen at what is supposed to be the South Pole-- but which is said to be only figurative since the actual south pole is elsewhere...and besides that, there might not be a south pole due to Antarctica being a rim, not an island. 


Rick says... Ironically, there's an airplane in the background. Why didn't Paulsen just fly in? Where exactly did he walk in FROM? How did he get to where he got so he could walk in? What is this supposed to be? 

Rick says... We're now in the air with Paulsen. Is he flying back to where he came from? Where did he come from? Why didn't he fly in in the first place? 

Rick says... now he's transferred to a ship by helicopter. This entire trip is one leg of a journey in which Paulsen decided to visit "all 8 poles"-- -the geographic poles, the magnetic poles, (that's 2+2)... are there 4 more? 

Rick says ...there is no indication on the documentary where this is or where Paulsen is sailing to. We're just seeing ice flows that could be anywhere.


Paulsen is speaking French here... but has his Ferring Pharmaceutical in Switzerland-- half of which I guess DOES speak French... but he's highly involved with the Russians.


Rick says... I'm not sure what this flag planting is about.


Rick says... a minute later in this video, we're back on land planting a flag at the South Pole?


Rick says... Here we see Paulsen wearing a Russian coat-- note the Russian language on his left side. This must be a Russian boat-- He has complimented the Russians in conferences I've seen reported on, regarding their activities on both poles. 


Here we see one of navigational instrucment displaces. It looks like we're at 64 S Latitude and 136 East... which puts them south of South Africa I believe (without looking at a map).


Now the scence cuts to a submersible and we're back in the ice floes.  Apparently Paulsen was IN IT.... it's not a remote vehicle.


Here we see something labeled.... MAGN POLE-- -which must be the MAGNETIC SOUTH POLE near Mertz Glacier-- which is the first destination after entering 60 south on the next ACE mission. Note how the magnetic pole appears on the computerized equipment these days. 

Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMs1iVgqWzI

Rick's final comment on this post-- Paulsen must be the wealthiest man ever to have visited the "South Pole", if it exists. Given that he's a pharmacetical executive, it seems odd that he's not overtly telling us that he's hunting for new plants and other organisms that might be useful in product development, while touring mostly the sub-antarctica area. It's interesting to note that his highest latitude cruise south of 60 is along the UNCLAIMED AREA where there is a dearth of research stations (although other maps show lots of transponders).  

2 comments:

  1. A strange video indeed. Is nobody in the Scott station curious when travellers just happen to turn up outside? Like inviting them in for a drink and a nibble? Hail stranger?
    The end of the Paulsen video switches to the North Pole - this link says he's been to the geographical north pole at least 15 times but this time he has to dive down to the sea bed at the north pole...did he really dive 4300m to the sea bed in a Russian submersible at the pole?
    http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/natur/Als-Entdecker-will-man-das-tun-was-andere-nicht-machen/story/28770619

    The map with the Frisian flag shows the arctic ocean.
    The co-ordinates of 64S 137E approx seem to indicate a ship north east of Casey Station.

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  2. Aha, Casey Station. Thanks. That's south of Australia under that government. I didn't notice the switch to the North Pole area... it's odd to combine 2 entirely separate trips in one documentary with no overt explanation. As well, why go to the North Pole 15X. If he did this, where are his research papers and results?

    As far as hail stranger at Scott-- yeah it's inconcievable that Paulsen and his gang would trek across Antarctica to the south pole on foot-- and be greeted as though they've travelled all that way with sleds and skiis. Bizarre. Not believable.

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Hi, I'm Captain Rick of the Virtual Circumference Voyage of Antarctica. I intend to prove definitively if Earth is flat or a sphere by paying careful attention to how many miles we cover as we travel "around" Antarctica. Flat earth theory says it's 50-60,000 miles. Spherical Earth theory says it 14,000 miles. Join me and ask any questions that you think would help our mission.